Here's where things stand for the SEC:
School Nat# / Attendance / Total Gross Revenue
3. Alabama / 101,534 / $143,776,550
6. Florida / 85,834 / $130,011,244
8. Louisiana St / 104,909 / $117,457,398
10. Tennessee / 95,584 / $111,579,779
13. Auburn / 87,451 / $103,680,609
14. Arkansas / 66,521 / $ 99,770,840
16. Georgia / 92,746 / $ 98,120,889
19. Kentucky / 57,572 / $ 95,720,724
21. Texas A&M / 105,123 / $ 93,957,906
25. South Car. / 82,401 / $ 90,484,422
35. Missouri / 65,285 / $ 76,306,889
36. Mississippi / 61,547 / $ 73,390,050
49. Miss State / 61,127 / $ 57,362,224

Stats provided by USA Today on Revenues and the Rankings Nationally among other Public Universities.

Most Profitable Football Conferences / figures given in millions / 2000-2013
1. SEC: $4,078.81
2. B1G: $2,870.89
3. XII: $1,574.40
4. P12: $1,311.98
5. ACC: $1,008.39

Data provided by Nerd Wallet

Based on the Public Schools Revenue data for 2014 the mean for the Big 10 was: $99,908,815. That was tops. The SEC's mean was $99,355,348 for second. The Big 12 was third in mean. The PAC and ACC are really close. The top half of the PAC earns more but the bottom half of the ACC earns more than the PAC.

The Mean attendance for the SEC in 2014-5 was the nations best: 78,706 up roughly 3,206 from last year. The second best attendance average belonged to the Big 10 which dropped significantly due to Rutgers and Maryland to 65,430.



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If the SEC wants to expand and wants to find schools that enhance their existing numbers (or at least don't hurt them) then here are our targets:

1. Texas / 93,332 / $165,691,486
7. Oklahoma / 89,343 / $123,805,661

Income hurts the average, but isn't bad / Attendance would drag us down / but they do add an in with DFW and a new state:

22. Okla. St. / 54,032 / $ 93,664,337

Markets would help our bottom line:

28. Virginia / 36,906 / $ 84,402,710
30. U.N.C. / 54,500 / $ 82,792,342
40. Va Tech / 61,983 / $ 70,030,484
43. N.C. St. / 55,414 / $ 67,481,639

Content would add some value:

24. Fl. St. / 81,805 / $ 91,382,441

Might add some market value under the right conditions:

33. W.V.U. / 59,161 / $ 77,706,698


So if you ask me about different realignment scenarios for the SEC options are relatively limited for schools that add to the bottom line in revenue and attendance.

Texas and Oklahoma would do that for us.

Oklahoma State would detract from the mean revenue of the Publics, and would detract from the mean attendance numbers, but would add markets.

North Carolina or N.C. State add to the market value of the conference but either would detract from the conference revenue mean (well as they stand now but that would go up once in the conference) and from the attendance mean.

Virginia or Virginia Tech would add to the market value but would also detract from the conference means. Virginia Tech less so in attendance and Virginia less so in revenue production.

West Virginia could hold some market value if needed as a substitute for #16.

Florida State would add value but more minimally than some of the others as a content addition. They are above the mean on attendance (78,706) but below the mean in revenue. ($99,355,348 for the publics. Vandy's 2014 numbers aren't available that I can find for revenue but I did find their 2014-5 attendance).

http://www.sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/finances/

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball...n-14-years

http://www.thesportseconomist.com/2015/0...n-ratings/