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[QUOTE="WoadBlue, post: 4917859, member: 1145"]
Let's get the language right. 'Dead weight' has absolutely nothing to do with teams being as good as other teams. TV does NOT pay for Wins. Every game then would be of equal value because every game has both a Winner and a Loser. TV pays for fans who watch the games. That means that the more a league has schools that in and of themselves cannot draw fans to watch, the less TV money that league can get.

The ACC has major issues in that regard. New England and NY both have very little interest in CFB per capita, easily the least in the country. And that region also produces very little talent. And that keeps the problem growing, because there is not nearly enough Home Grown talent to inspire locals to care about CFB. Then the ACC has Wake, the smallest school in a Power/Major conference since the SWC died (Rice was permanently demoted). Literally, Wake brings almost 0 'unique' people watching ACC football, because virtually 100% who watch would do so even as Wake alums because of UNC, NCSU, VT, UVA. Clemson, etc.

Schools that have the much easier time being huge in TV numbers are larger state flagship and /or land grant schools that are in what is accorded a Major conference. The ACC has a dearth of those schools and far too many smallish private schools.
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