Just something I mocked up real quick, it's going to be wrong due to the number of assumptions but could be useful as a rough estimate. This goes off of the news that the revenue split will be 40% fixed and 60% dynamic based on a 5 year rolling average of total viewership. I don't have total viewership numbers but I do have average per game viewership taken from a Clemson board, which would result in the same ratios vs total viewership if not for some teams potentially playing an extra games compared to others. Next assumption is regarding new members, I'm basing viewership off of 2024 only as they had a significant change to TV deals -- Cal and Stanford take a viewer hit and SMU got a boost. Next assumption is basing this off of football numbers only. And finally, the baseline I'm comparing to considers the new members as having full revenue shares though they don't in reality, for simplicity's sake.
The calc:
End percentages in reference to the overall ACC revenue pie, not % increase/decrease of team revenue.
My biggest two takeaways from this admittedly rough takeoff are
1) that despite GT being in 4th in average viewership over the past 5 years, the fact that the revenue split is based on ratio of total viewership and not place of finish (4th) does GT few favors, with a measly 0.5% bump of the ACC pie
2) this revenue split is a massive forfeiture from the bottom 2/3 of the conference into the pockets of FSU and Clemson, with Miami getting a small bump as well. Everyone else is either effectively unimpacted or looking at notable decreases in revenue. ACC got hosed in this settlement.
The calc:
End percentages in reference to the overall ACC revenue pie, not % increase/decrease of team revenue.
My biggest two takeaways from this admittedly rough takeoff are
1) that despite GT being in 4th in average viewership over the past 5 years, the fact that the revenue split is based on ratio of total viewership and not place of finish (4th) does GT few favors, with a measly 0.5% bump of the ACC pie
2) this revenue split is a massive forfeiture from the bottom 2/3 of the conference into the pockets of FSU and Clemson, with Miami getting a small bump as well. Everyone else is either effectively unimpacted or looking at notable decreases in revenue. ACC got hosed in this settlement.
