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[QUOTE="WoadBlue, post: 4687483, member: 1145"]
I cannot fathom why anybody thinks the Big 12, starting after OU and Texas leave, should be worth anything. Over the past few years, the ACC has drawn more total TV viewers for football than the Big 12, (with the Big TV having a slightly larger per game average). And that was with OU and Texas, which always draw the most viewers, with no close 3rd. Big 12 football TV numbers are about to tank.

The ACC's great weakness in football TV numbers is that neither Wake not BC is ever going to draw any fans. They simply cannot. They are permanent liabilities, like having 2 Vanderbilts, with each having perhaps slightly less drawing power than the actual Vandy.

The bigger issue for the ACC is that long contract. ESPN seems happy to see the ACC fall ever farther behind while its TV numbers dwarf those of the Pac and are much better overall than those of the Big 12. ESPN will not be better off with having 1 MAJOR conference (say, a 20 team SEC) than with having 2 MAJOR conferences. And the Big 12 can ever again be in that category.
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