(06-01-2019 03:31 AM)templefootballfan Wrote:  Tier 3 rights bring B 12 up to SEC payments

Outside of Austin and Norman, they really don't. The other schools roll their T3 rights into the radio/multimedia contracts run by IMG, Learfield, etc. Every school has these MM contracts, so if you're going to tack T3 on to overall revenue for B12 schools, you need to do it for everyone else for an apples-to-apples comparison. The T3 games are pretty marginal parts of those MM contracts. VT and WVU, for example, both have contracts with IMG covering pretty much the same things. VT earns around $7M per year from its contract, vs $6M for WVU despite the latter having the T3 games rolled in.

The bigger issue that comes from these numbers is the pending ACC Network closing the gap between the ACC and the B12. How is Oklahoma going to feel next year if Wake Forest's TV revenue is in the same ballpark (or possibly exceeds) the Sooners? Seems to me OK either hikes up her skirt to the B10/SEC, or forces Texas to drop the LHN in favor of a B12 linear network.