Football viewership. I went through the data from
http://www.sportsmediawatch.com/college-...v-ratings/ for regular season and conference championship games (not bowl games/CFP). For each conference, I looked at: viewers in all games involving conference teams (and per game average); viewers of conference controlled games (and per game average); viewers of intra-conference games (and per game average).
The AAC gets 12-24% of SEC/BIG10 viewership (up to 37.1% avg per rated game)
The AAC gets 21-31% of ACC viewership (up to 44% avg per rated game)
The AAC gets 27-47% of BigXII/PAC viewers over the season - as much as 62% for per game averages.
Conversely, G4 viewers of intra-conference games are 4-31% of AAC intra-conference games (higher for avg per rated game, but best G4 intra-conference per game average is 56.6% of AAC). G4s have 10-36% of AAC's viewers for all games (24-58% avg per rated game).
As a reminder, AAC Power 6 is not/not an assertion that the AAC is the equivalent of the SEC or Big10 today. P6 is an information campaign with the assertion that the AAC is closer to the five conferences ahead of us than the four behind us. The strategic goal of this information campaign is to improve the American and its members' chances of being on the right side of the next great shakeup in the college sports -- specifically college football -- landscape. The AAC's next media rights deal will be an interim objective, or an indicator of progress, for this campaign - it is neither the endstate nor a pre-requisite for P6.
Nor do we need to transform into the SEC overnight to achieve the strategic goal: we need to keep the five contract-bowl-conferences from separating from us, while at the same time separating from the other four.
Data for all games (avg per game); conference-controlled (apg); and conference games (apg).
SEC: 199,484,000 (3.2million); 166,916,000 (3.0 million); 138,767,000 (3.55million)
BIG10: 180,615,000 (2.86million); 156,679,000 (3.0million); 130,993,000 (3.27million)
ACC: 139,553,000 (2.4million); 117,703,000 (2.4million); 68,952,000 (2.0 million)
PAC12: 95,254,000 (1.76million); 85,907,000 (1.79million); 61,091,000 (1.65million)
BIG12: 93,660,000(1.7million); 72,583,000 (1.58million); 59,455,000(1.6million)
AAC: 40,675,000(.992million); 21,866,000(.729million); 17,044,000 (.631million)
MWC: 16,031,000(.616million); 7,724,000(.406million); 5,357,000 (.357million)
MAC: 10,467,000(.455million); 3,745,000 (.234million); 3,550,000 (.237million)
SBC: 5,209,000 (.401million); 2,280,000 (.253million); 1,314,000 (.164million)
CUSA:4,519,000 (.251 million); 2,657,000 (.177million); 717,000 (.071 million)
AAC's percentage of SEC: 22.3% (33.25%); 15.4% (27.7%); 12.2% (17.7%)
AAC's percentage of BIG10: 24.65% (37.1%); 16.4% (27.7%); 13% (19.3%)
AAC's percentage of ACC: 31.9% (44.2%); 21.8% (34.5%); 24.8% (31.6%)
AAC's percentage of PAC12: 46.7% (60%); 29.9% (46.3%); 27.8% (38.2%)
AAC's percentages of BIG12: 47.5% (62.3%); 35.4% (52.5%); 28.7% (39.4%)
MWC's percentage of AAC: 36% (58.1%); 30.0% (48.9%); 31.4% (56.6%)
MAC's percentage of AAC: 23.5% (42.9%); 14.6% (28.2%); 20.8% (37.5%)
SBC's percentage of AAC: 11.7% (37.8%); 8.9% (30.5%); 7.7% (26.0%)
CUSA's percentage of AAC: 10.1% (23.7%) 10.3% (21.3%); 4.2% (11.4%)
EDITED 05August2018 - in looking at my spreadsheet for another conversation, I realized that I omitted TxTech @ Houston in the AAC numbers. It was a reverse mirror game w an ACC game, but lists at 3.850 million viewers. I have changed the AAC numbers and the "all games" and ""conference-controlled games" percentages in this first post and I'll reply to/change the last post in the thread.