http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball...evenue-cap
Conference USA, with 14 members, would split the same $12 million as the Sun Belt, Mountain West and AAC, each with 12 members by 2015. (The MAC is at 13 members.) Two sources said that part of the decision was based on conference realignment. The equal split, in theory, deters conferences from raiding each other because that distribution number isn't going to grow with more teams.
So for instance- if CUSA goes up to 16 by taking Arkansas St and Louisiana- they would be splitting 12 million by 16 teams.
Also-
Pool A of the Group of Five distribution includes $60 million ($12 million multiplied by five conferences.)
• Pool B will be divided based on a ranking system of the five conferences. CBSSports.com reported in January that the number to be split would be $20 million. The highest ranked conference will get $7 million. The lowest ranked conference would get an extra $1.5 million. That $20 million figure likely will grow, according to a source, because the $86.5 million is a four-year rolling average. Revenue is expected to escalate in the future.
• That would leave approximately $6 million left over for Pool C. Whatever that number ends up being, it will stay fixed over the four-year period and accounts for the amount earned by the Group of Five participant in a playoff bowl. The highest ranked team from those 63 schools is guaranteed a spot in one of the six playoff bowls.