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With final numbers for Army-Navy in, we can look at viewership conference by conference.

As usual sportsmediawatch.com and showbuzzdaily.com are the two major sources.
At risk of being Captain Obvious, these numbers are for Nielsen-rated networks only (e.g., no CBSSN)

The most important thing is conference-controlled inventory - the numbers that dictate media deals.

2021 Conference Controlled Inventory Viewership
B10 205,758,000
SEC 156,977,000
B12 90,325,000
ACC 68,366,000
P12 65,080,000
AAC 25,952,000
mwc 7,173,000
SBC 5,838,000
MAC 3,649,000
CUSA 412,000
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RE: End of 2021 regular season - TV viewership
Conference-controlled inventory is the metric for what a conference should be worth in primary media rights deal. That includes home games against out-of-conference opponents. Some like to look at intra-conference games themselves, so those are below for Nielsen rated networks only of course (note, all from here out are in the same order as the conference inventory).

2021 Intra-Conference Games Viewership
B10 162,933,000
SEC 144,046,000
B12 76,894,000
ACC 34,699,000
P12 49,718,000
AAC 18,095,000
mwc 6,230,000
SBC 2,582,000
MAC 3,364,000
CUSA 412,000

I suppose that might give some esoteric inherent attractiveness of the conference? As I pull this together, looking at three columns, I think the interesting point might be what percentage of your conference inventory viewership is intra-conference viewership - as opposed to say a non-contract-bowl-conference team hosting a contract-bowl-conference team, or even differences within the contract bowl conferences.

2021 Intra-Conference Viewership %age of Conference Inventory Viewership
B10 79.19%
SEC 91.76%
B12 85.13%
ACC 50.75%
P12 76.40%
AAC 69.72%
mwc 86.85%
SBC 44.23%
MAC 92.19%
CUSA 100%
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RE: End of 2021 regular season - TV viewership
And finally - Total Viewers all games. This counts all eyeballs, including away OOC games and Army-Navy (again, Nielsen-rated networks only, duh)

2021 Total Viewers All Games
B10 215,326,000
SEC 184,869,000
B12 100,283,000
ACC 80,979,000
P12 79,623,000
AAC 46,422,000
mwc 15,332,000
SBC 10,302,000
MAC 11,358,000
CUSA 5,746,000
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RE: End of 2021 regular season - TV viewership
(12-14-2021 02:12 PM)slhNavy91 Wrote:  And finally - Total Viewers all games. This counts all eyeballs, including away OOC games and Army-Navy (again, Nielsen-rated networks only, duh)

2021 Total Viewers All Games
B10 215,326,000
SEC 184,869,000
B12 100,283,000
ACC 80,979,000
P12 79,623,000
AAC 46,422,000
mwc 15,332,000
SBC 10,302,000
MAC 11,358,000
CUSA 5,746,000

There's the Big 2

The rest of the p5

The tweener league

The G4
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Thanks for aggregating all the numbers, any chance you can give the breakdown of the AAC numbers by school?
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RE: End of 2021 regular season - TV viewership
(12-14-2021 02:14 PM)bearcatmark Wrote:  
(12-14-2021 02:12 PM)slhNavy91 Wrote:  And finally - Total Viewers all games. This counts all eyeballs, including away OOC games and Army-Navy (again, Nielsen-rated networks only, duh)

2021 Total Viewers All Games
B10 215,326,000
SEC 184,869,000
B12 100,283,000
ACC 80,979,000
P12 79,623,000
AAC 46,422,000
mwc 15,332,000
SBC 10,302,000
MAC 11,358,000
CUSA 5,746,000

There's the Big 2

The rest of the p5

The tweener league

The G4

Looking at Conference Controlled Inventory, or even intra-conference, one could make the argument that the five autonomy conferences are 2-1-2 (Big12 in the middle), then the AAC, with the AAC equalling the totals of the G4.
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(12-14-2021 03:09 PM)UCbball21 Wrote:  Thanks for aggregating all the numbers, any chance you can give the breakdown of the AAC numbers by school?

That's a little more spreadsheet work.

I had done 2017-2020 to fit into the methodology of a thread started about "P5" schools 1-65. https://csnbbs.com/thread-930225.html

I'll see if I can knock it out.
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RE: End of 2021 regular season - TV viewership
(12-14-2021 02:10 PM)slhNavy91 Wrote:  With final numbers for Army-Navy in, we can look at viewership conference by conference.

As usual sportsmediawatch.com and showbuzzdaily.com are the two major sources.
At risk of being Captain Obvious, these numbers are for Nielsen-rated networks only (e.g., no CBSSN)

The most important thing is conference-controlled inventory - the numbers that dictate media deals.

2021 Conference Controlled Inventory Viewership
B10 205,758,000
SEC 156,977,000
B12 90,325,000
ACC 68,366,000
P12 65,080,000
AAC 25,952,000
mwc 7,173,000
SBC 5,838,000
MAC 3,649,000
CUSA 412,000

Pretty clearly shows there is a P5, A true tweener conf AAC, and then a G4.
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(12-14-2021 02:11 PM)slhNavy91 Wrote:  Conference-controlled inventory is the metric for what a conference should be worth in primary media rights deal. That includes home games against out-of-conference opponents. Some like to look at intra-conference games themselves, so those are below for Nielsen rated networks only of course (note, all from here out are in the same order as the conference inventory).

2021 Intra-Conference Games Viewership
B10 162,933,000
SEC 144,046,000
B12 76,894,000
ACC 34,699,000
P12 49,718,000
AAC 18,095,000
mwc 6,230,000
SBC 2,582,000
MAC 3,364,000
CUSA 412,000

I suppose that might give some esoteric inherent attractiveness of the conference? As I pull this together, looking at three columns, I think the interesting point might be what percentage of your conference inventory viewership is intra-conference viewership - as opposed to say a non-contract-bowl-conference team hosting a contract-bowl-conference team, or even differences within the contract bowl conferences.

2021 Intra-Conference Viewership %age of Conference Inventory Viewership
B10 79.19%
SEC 91.76%
B12 85.13%
ACC 50.75%
P12 76.40%
AAC 69.72%
mwc 86.85%
SBC 44.23%
MAC 92.19%
CUSA 100%

The ACC number is interesting to me. Does the rotating series with Notre Dame game count as Non-Conference Viewership Inventory? It would appear that and series like Georgia/Georgia Tech, FSU/Florida, Kentucky/Louisville and Clemson/South Carolina are more valuable than a random game between two ACC teams.
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(12-14-2021 04:20 PM)goodknightfl Wrote:  
(12-14-2021 02:10 PM)slhNavy91 Wrote:  With final numbers for Army-Navy in, we can look at viewership conference by conference.

As usual sportsmediawatch.com and showbuzzdaily.com are the two major sources.
At risk of being Captain Obvious, these numbers are for Nielsen-rated networks only (e.g., no CBSSN)

The most important thing is conference-controlled inventory - the numbers that dictate media deals.

2021 Conference Controlled Inventory Viewership
B10 205,758,000
SEC 156,977,000
B12 90,325,000
ACC 68,366,000
P12 65,080,000
AAC 25,952,000
mwc 7,173,000
SBC 5,838,000
MAC 3,649,000
CUSA 412,000

Pretty clearly shows there is a P5, A true tweener conf AAC, and then a G4.

I am genuinely curious where CUSA would actually fall
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(12-14-2021 03:42 PM)slhNavy91 Wrote:  
(12-14-2021 03:09 PM)UCbball21 Wrote:  Thanks for aggregating all the numbers, any chance you can give the breakdown of the AAC numbers by school?

That's a little more spreadsheet work.

I had done 2017-2020 to fit into the methodology of a thread started about "P5" schools 1-65. https://csnbbs.com/thread-930225.html

I'll see if I can knock it out.

Wasn't so bad after all.
I did Conference Controlled Inventory. Referring back to the thread I linked, I counted all games in the conference inventory in which a team played -- that is double counted intra-conference games so they're reflected in both teams. The total and therefore the denominator for the percentages below is therefore 44 million+

Team........conf vwrs.....%age
Cincinnati..12,532,000...28.45%
Houston....6,201,000....14.08%
Tulane.......3,962,000......8.99%
USF...........3,860,000......8.76%
UCF...........3,719,000......8.44%
ECU..........3,372,000....7.66%
Navy.........3,043,000.....6.91%
Memphis...2,319,000.....5.26%
Tulsa.........2,147,000......4.87%
SMU..........1,781,000.....4.04%
Temple......1,111,000......2.52%

I suppose my next steps would be to combine that with the four years previously broken down.

Then look at "Total Viewers" 2021, and then combined with the four years previously done (in large part because that's where Navy looks good with Army-Navy and ND games coming into play)
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(12-14-2021 04:20 PM)goodknightfl Wrote:  
(12-14-2021 02:10 PM)slhNavy91 Wrote:  With final numbers for Army-Navy in, we can look at viewership conference by conference.

As usual sportsmediawatch.com and showbuzzdaily.com are the two major sources.
At risk of being Captain Obvious, these numbers are for Nielsen-rated networks only (e.g., no CBSSN)

The most important thing is conference-controlled inventory - the numbers that dictate media deals.

2021 Conference Controlled Inventory Viewership
B10 205,758,000
SEC 156,977,000
B12 90,325,000
ACC 68,366,000
P12 65,080,000
AAC 25,952,000
mwc 7,173,000
SBC 5,838,000
MAC 3,649,000
CUSA 412,000

Pretty clearly shows there is a P5, A true tweener conf AAC, and then a G4.

Nice work Navy. Interesting data and we'll have to see how this tweener thing works out.

It was widely reported the UT and OU carried the Big12 viewership to the tune of 60% and the 3 schools the AAC lost were 40% of ours.

My rough math takes the Big12 to 46.5M without the benefit of having the big boys adding the new three (Don't know BYU numbers). Would if the PAC12 takes UH poaching the largest TV market in Texas? This could happened and I would hate to be a East Coast Time zone with a bunch of central time school little brothers. The truth be known they can't wait to get out no matter the number of solidarity statements. What happens to those central schools own viewership numbers if the regional big players won't play them. Their population demographics are weak in the first place and keeping UH is key!!

In the meantime, the numbers adjust the AAC without the three leaving well ahead of others ranked below them with a minimal loss of scheduling association leaving. Sorry Big AAC 3 your not UT or OU. The key to our recovery is the market driven strategy employed by conference leadership and what happens to the CFP. I can easily see us rebuilding again past tweener status with our sights clearly on the Big12 by the end of our current media deal. It will be interesting.
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(12-14-2021 04:47 PM)slhNavy91 Wrote:  
(12-14-2021 03:42 PM)slhNavy91 Wrote:  
(12-14-2021 03:09 PM)UCbball21 Wrote:  Thanks for aggregating all the numbers, any chance you can give the breakdown of the AAC numbers by school?

That's a little more spreadsheet work.

I had done 2017-2020 to fit into the methodology of a thread started about "P5" schools 1-65. https://csnbbs.com/thread-930225.html

I'll see if I can knock it out.

Wasn't so bad after all.
I did Conference Controlled Inventory. Referring back to the thread I linked, I counted all games in the conference inventory in which a team played -- that is double counted intra-conference games so they're reflected in both teams. The total and therefore the denominator for the percentages below is therefore 44 million+

Team........conf vwrs.....%age
Cincinnati..12,532,000...28.45%
Houston....6,201,000....14.08%
Tulane.......3,962,000......8.99%
USF...........3,860,000......8.76%
UCF...........3,719,000......8.44%
ECU..........3,372,000....7.66%
Navy.........3,043,000.....6.91%
Memphis...2,319,000.....5.26%
Tulsa.........2,147,000......4.87%
SMU..........1,781,000.....4.04%
Temple......1,111,000......2.52%

I suppose my next steps would be to combine that with the four years previously broken down.

Then look at "Total Viewers" 2021, and then combined with the four years previously done (in large part because that's where Navy looks good with Army-Navy and ND games coming into play)

Alright, this bit was done on the keyboard in this reply window, rather than back into the completely different spreadsheet with the '17-'20 work -- so I'm willing to take criticism if anything seems off. But '17-'20 numbers from the September thread, plus the 2021 numbers above.

2017-2021conference viewers, all games involved
Team......Total conference viewers Viewers...age
UCF..........39,397,000..................18.28%
MEM.........36,409,000..................16.89%
CIN..........33,864,000..................15.71%
USF..........25,378,000..................11.77%
HOU.........22,835,000..................10.59%
TULS........12,619,000....................5.85%
NAVY........10,776,000....................5.00%
SMU.........10,428,000....................4.83%
TULA........10,230,000....................4.75%
ECU...........7,052,000....................3.27%
TEM...........6,588,000....................3.06%

('17-'21 TOTAL (denominator), with intra-conference double counted: 215,576,000)

The three departing members are now up to 44.58% of viewership of conference inventory over five years total (counting intraconference games, including CCGs, for BOTH schools involved).
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(12-14-2021 02:14 PM)bearcatmark Wrote:  
(12-14-2021 02:12 PM)slhNavy91 Wrote:  And finally - Total Viewers all games. This counts all eyeballs, including away OOC games and Army-Navy (again, Nielsen-rated networks only, duh)

2021 Total Viewers All Games
B10 215,326,000
SEC 184,869,000
B12 100,283,000
ACC 80,979,000
P12 79,623,000
AAC 46,422,000
mwc 15,332,000
SBC 10,302,000
MAC 11,358,000
CUSA 5,746,000

There's the Big 2

The rest of the p5

The tweener league

The G4

Yea, and the SEC will be even with the B10 when they add Texas and Oklahoma. Big12 will be closer to the ACC and P12. The AAC will back some, but will still be the tweener league.
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(12-14-2021 02:10 PM)slhNavy91 Wrote:  With final numbers for Army-Navy in, we can look at viewership conference by conference.

As usual sportsmediawatch.com and showbuzzdaily.com are the two major sources.
At risk of being Captain Obvious, these numbers are for Nielsen-rated networks only (e.g., no CBSSN)

The most important thing is conference-controlled inventory - the numbers that dictate media deals.

2021 Conference Controlled Inventory Viewership
B10 205,758,000
SEC 156,977,000
B12 90,325,000
ACC 68,366,000
P12 65,080,000
AAC 25,952,000
mwc 7,173,000
SBC 5,838,000
MAC 3,649,000
CUSA 412,000

The biggest surprise to me is at the top. I would have guessed the SEC would have a slight lead---instead---its the Big10 that has the lead---and the real surprise is its not really all that close.
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(12-14-2021 04:47 PM)slhNavy91 Wrote:  
(12-14-2021 03:42 PM)slhNavy91 Wrote:  
(12-14-2021 03:09 PM)UCbball21 Wrote:  Thanks for aggregating all the numbers, any chance you can give the breakdown of the AAC numbers by school?

That's a little more spreadsheet work.

I had done 2017-2020 to fit into the methodology of a thread started about "P5" schools 1-65. https://csnbbs.com/thread-930225.html

I'll see if I can knock it out.

Wasn't so bad after all.
I did Conference Controlled Inventory. Referring back to the thread I linked, I counted all games in the conference inventory in which a team played -- that is double counted intra-conference games so they're reflected in both teams. The total and therefore the denominator for the percentages below is therefore 44 million+

Team........conf vwrs.....%age
Cincinnati..12,532,000...28.45%
Houston....6,201,000....14.08%
Tulane.......3,962,000......8.99%
USF...........3,860,000......8.76%
UCF...........3,719,000......8.44%
ECU..........3,372,000....7.66%
Navy.........3,043,000.....6.91%
Memphis...2,319,000.....5.26%
Tulsa.........2,147,000......4.87%
SMU..........1,781,000.....4.04%
Temple......1,111,000......2.52%

I suppose my next steps would be to combine that with the four years previously broken down.

Then look at "Total Viewers" 2021, and then combined with the four years previously done (in large part because that's where Navy looks good with Army-Navy and ND games coming into play)

This is awesome! Thanks so much!
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(12-14-2021 07:36 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  
(12-14-2021 02:10 PM)slhNavy91 Wrote:  With final numbers for Army-Navy in, we can look at viewership conference by conference.

As usual sportsmediawatch.com and showbuzzdaily.com are the two major sources.
At risk of being Captain Obvious, these numbers are for Nielsen-rated networks only (e.g., no CBSSN)

The most important thing is conference-controlled inventory - the numbers that dictate media deals.

2021 Conference Controlled Inventory Viewership
B10 205,758,000
SEC 156,977,000
B12 90,325,000
ACC 68,366,000
P12 65,080,000
AAC 25,952,000
mwc 7,173,000
SBC 5,838,000
MAC 3,649,000
CUSA 412,000

The biggest surprise to me is at the top. I would have guessed the SEC would have a slight lead---instead---its the Big10 that has the lead---and the real surprise is its not really all that close.

Those B10 schools all have massive enrollment (except Northwestern) number of alums and schools like Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State and Nebraska each have have as many t-shirt fans as Texas and Oklahoma. Other than Florida and Texas A&M, most of the SEC schools are much smaller. That means fewer eyeballs.
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Really great info! Thank you for all the work.

Felt good to see USF toward the top. Even when we are down, our numbers are still solid. That’s valuable.
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(12-14-2021 04:47 PM)slhNavy91 Wrote:  Team........conf vwrs.....%age
Cincinnati..12,532,000...28.45%
Houston....6,201,000....14.08%
Tulane.......3,962,000......8.99%
USF...........3,860,000......8.76%
UCF...........3,719,000......8.44%
ECU..........3,372,000....7.66%
Navy.........3,043,000.....6.91%
Memphis...2,319,000.....5.26%
Tulsa.........2,147,000......4.87%
SMU..........1,781,000.....4.04%
Temple......1,111,000......2.52%

Cincinnati..12,532,000...28.45%
Houston....6,201,000.....14.08%
UCF...........3,719,000......8.44%

UC/UH/UCF: 22,452,000...50.97%

This appears to suggest that, in 2021 to date, Cincy, Houston, and UCF have accounted for 51% of the conference's football viewership.

This is somewhat higher than in previous years. Their average share since 2017 may have been closer to 40% or 45%.

At face value, this would suggest that conference viewership could drop by 40% or more when UC, UH, and UCF start playing in the Big 12, at least in the first 2 or 3 seasons after they leave.

A lot will depend on whether the departure of UC, UH, and UCF creates an opportunity for 2 or 3 conference schools to rise up in the rankings by winning a higher % of their games.

Schools such as Navy, Memphis, and SMU, which have been among the strongest AAC football schools, along with incoming UTSA, might stand to benefit the most if that happens.

Questions:

If the AAC's overall viewership shrinks by ~40% or more, will it gradually recover to current levels? or,

Will some of that viewership shift to some of the higher-profile teams in other G5 conferences, such as App St., Louisiana, SDSU, Boise, Coastal Carolina, etc.?

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(12-15-2021 12:02 AM)Milwaukee Wrote:  
(12-14-2021 04:47 PM)slhNavy91 Wrote:  Team........conf vwrs.....%age
Cincinnati..12,532,000...28.45%
Houston....6,201,000....14.08%
Tulane.......3,962,000......8.99%
USF...........3,860,000......8.76%
UCF...........3,719,000......8.44%
ECU..........3,372,000....7.66%
Navy.........3,043,000.....6.91%
Memphis...2,319,000.....5.26%
Tulsa.........2,147,000......4.87%
SMU..........1,781,000.....4.04%
Temple......1,111,000......2.52%

Cincinnati..12,532,000...28.45%
Houston....6,201,000.....14.08%
UCF...........3,719,000......8.44%

UC/UH/UCF: 22,452,000...50.97%

This appears to suggest that, in 2021 to date, Cincy, Houston, and UCF have accounted for 51% of the conference's football viewership.

This is somewhat higher than in previous years. Their average share since 2017 may have been closer to 40% or 45%.

At face value, this would suggest that conference viewership could drop by 40% or more when UC, UH, and UCF start playing in the Big 12, at least in the first 2 or 3 seasons after they leave.

A lot will depend on whether the departure of UC, UH, and UCF creates an opportunity for 2 or 3 conference schools to rise up in the rankings by winning a higher % of their games.

Schools such as Navy, Memphis, and SMU, which have been among the strongest AAC football schools, along with incoming UTSA, might stand to benefit the most if that happens.

Questions:

If the AAC's overall viewership shrinks by ~40% or more, will it gradually recover to current levels? or,

Will some of that viewership shift to some of the higher-profile teams in other G5 conferences, such as App St., Louisiana, SDSU, Boise, Coastal Carolina, etc.?

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I think you have to look at the numbers you quoted AND the post two below the one you quoted, with 2017-2021 aggregated.

Looking at the five year numbers, the three departing teams are not THE top three teams, they are three of the top five. They represent 44.58% of viewership of conference controlled inventory. (By comparison, UT/OU ARE the top two of the Big12, representing more like 60% of viewership).
2021 is a departure from that, with the three departing teams squeaking past 50% of conference viewership. But they are still only three of the top five in 2021. The difference in 2021 is that two of the three are #1 and #2 for the year. Why is that? Because this is the only time in the last five years that the top two teams in performance have been two of the three teams departing. 2021 AAC CCG was the FIRST to match up two departing teams -- we already had a CCG matching up two remaining teams in 2016.
Cincinnati and Houston aren't the top two teams in viewership for 2021 because they're omg CINCINNATI!!1! & omg HOUSTON!!1!. Plenty of years where one or both was no where near the top. They're the top two teams in viewership because they're the top two teams in performance this year. There are a couple factors to that. The team with CFP buzz will generate public interest, certainly. But also, the top performing teams will get on ESPN instead of ESPN2 and on ABC instead of ESPN.

Whenever the three depart, the top performing teams in the AAC will get the buzz and get the exposure spots, and be the top viewership teams in the AAC. ANY of the eight remainers can take up that mantel. (Tulsa just in the CCG in '20, Temple in our first two CCGs and northeast population corridor and NFL product history, Tulane's angry wave is great on TV etc etc) With just recent performance, add UTSA and UAB -- I suppose there are a couple of the newcomers that are historically bad such that if they are the AAC's top performers it could be a net loss in perception of the AAC.
But the AAC's viewers won't displace to the Sun Belt / mwc teams you listed. The top teams in the AAC will be on ABC and ESPN; the top mwc teams will be on FS1 late at night, and the top SunBelt teams will have some ESPN exposure, and some of that will be on Tuesday/Wednesday nights (the Sun Belt contract is for 15 games on ESPN/ESPN2/ESPNU compared to the AAC's 40 games on ABC/ESPN/ESPN2/ESPNU).

ALSO...some of those conference-controlled inventory numbers come from outside the AAC. Tulane is up there because they hosted Oklahoma (hosted in Norman due to hurricane, but still AAC contract). USF is up there in 2021 and the five year numbers because they get home games vs UF and FSU. Navy's Notre Dame home games still have yet to show up as conference inventory and Navy is still in the middle of the pack (the 2020 BYU replacement was one of the key strengths of Navy in the methodology on the realignment board that counted home games). mwc can give the AAC a little challenge there - they get a few good, home OOC games, but the Sun Belt just don't have as good OOC product in their conference-controlled inventory.

The AAC may slide back a little overall. But we won't be overtaken in viewership by any of the G4 conferences.
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