What is the New CFB Playoff System Worth?

engie

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About $608 mil/yr for the entirity of the "new bcs games" according to this report: http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Special-Content/News/2012/BCS-ESPN.aspx

What does the current BCS agreement pay? $125 mil/yr

So, we're looking at almost $500mil in new postseason money total.

How does this help the SEC?
In total, the BCS package includes 12 national championship games and 24 semifinal games within the new college football four-team playoff that begins with the 2014 season, as well as the rights to three “access” bowls that will be in the BCS mix: likely the Tostitos Fiesta, Chick-fil-A and AT&T Cotton. The BCS has not finalized the lineup of access bowls.

So, we have(when not part of the 4 team playoff, since playoff money will be divided amongst all conferences):
Sugar(champions) - SEC vs Big12
Rose - Pac12 vs B1G
Orange - ACC vs highest available ranked team between SEC/B1G/Notre Dame
Cotton - SEC vs Big12
Fiesta - Big12 vs best available, probably Pac12 in new tie-ins
Peach - SEC vs ACC

Tie-ins:
SEC 4
Big12 3
Pac12 2
B1G 2
ACC 2

Given this structure, we are likely to have tie-ins with 4 of the 6 big money "access" bowls, so we will likely end up with 4 or 5 teams in this top tier of games most years... and thus leave with a much larger piece of the $$ pie(when outside the playoff structure).

How does this directly effect State and Ole Miss? Well, it is great to be a member in the SEC. It probably means about an additional $10 mil/yr each to each school, on top of the additional tv revenue that we are currently looking at(probably another $12mil+/yr). Our TV money is about to effectively double.
 
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57stratdawg

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I'll drink to that. Those SEC checks mean more to us than it does to our peers.