Moontan
2017 ESPN College Bowl Pick’em Winner
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That's not entirely true. ESPN may pay a few more dollars for the extra basketball games, but it's not going to pay millions extra for football games that it doesn't get to broadcast.The ACC gets the benefit of a more lucrative contract with ND added 2 years early.
In short, it'll likely be a financial wash for the ACC membership until the football games start. I would not expect (per school) revenues to go up until ND starts to uphold its end of the agreement.
Similarly, I wouldn't expect ND to be able to tap into the ACC bowl tie-ins until it starts to play the games that would make it eligible for them. ND agreeing to the 5 extra (or 3 extra road) games could alleviate that hurdle.