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Originally Posted by Prison Bitch
You're not understanding my point. Financially, the Big 12 gets a huge benefit from Fox by agreeing to that 9th conference game. If they lose that, in your scenario, their contract value declines. Since the Big 12 does not get the viewership that the SEC or Big 10 does, they have to compensate for that by offering Fox that extra game.
FSU & Miami and GT won't offset that by bringing in more viewers. If anything they are a net-neutral to Fox. We simply must retain the 9th conf game. If you were Fox would you pay the same for 8 SEC games as Big 12 games? Hell no. You will pay closer to it though if the SEC only offers 8 games plus an extra non-con vs. bum***** state.
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I understand your point, but I think you're taking a shortsighted approach. You would be trading long-term stability for a bigger piece of pie in the short term. By the time you factor in a CCG, the gap in the short term gets even smaller.
As it sits, you can look at the conference schedule for the next decade, and there is literally only one game per year that you can expect with any degree of certainty to have national appeal. That is OU/Texas. (Frankly, that game has been a turd most years.) Just adding Florida State would immediately triple the number of games with national appeal.
The Big 12, in my scenario, could be fat and happy for 12 years, or they can be simply full and secure for decades.