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Low - High figures for TV 👀
Notice how the non autonomous conferences stacked up against each other.
• PAC12 407k - 682k
• American 121k - 551k
• Sunbelt 60k -317k
• CUSA 81k - 312k
• Mountain West (1 data point) 300k
Memphis, Tulane, USF, & UConn (FB only + Hoops agrmnt) to Pac
Timing w/ 24 CFP expand, mock cfp select meet
•Pac to 9 game conf sked
•Temp expansion freeze (won't pick at ACC if teams leave)
•Quasi launch if ACC/Big 12 need teams; min exit $ to go
•Auto bid
All speculation
Allows Pac schools to count against the 10 min power gms, p4 can keep scheduling them to count for cfp
Other non-power will get 1 spot between them, but must finished ranked
No divs, but East teams will play each other yearly & rotate the rest
ACC, Big 12, & Pac working tog
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𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐦, 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐨𝐧 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲! 🤘
ALT Promotional graphic featuring logos of Mountain West Conference and Grand Canyon University, separated by a vertical line. Additional logos of various Mountain West member schools, including Air Force, Nevada, UNLV, and others, are also displayed.
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Mountain West pursing Grand Canyon as non-football member w/talks "heating up," sources told @ActionNetworkHQ. Grand Canyon, a member of WAC, has made 3 of last 4 NCAA men's basketball tourneys. MW also still in discussions w/NIU & Toledo as football-only members, sources said
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Can confirm Pac-12 has hired Octagon as essentially an agent to market its media rights. Next step, getting an 8th team, then getting a deal.
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Sam Houston AD Bobby Williams said Mountain West contacted school to see if Bearkats were interested in membership but “that’s not what we want to do. (President Alisa White) & I are on the same page. We want to help build Conference USA because we really enjoy & are excited about what’s going on”
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Hawaii will join Mountain West as full member in 2026, sources told @ActionNetworkHQ. With 8 full members required to be FBS league, MW now targets NIU & Toledo as football-only members, sources said. MW still wants to add at least 1 football member
actionnetwork.com/ncaaf/hawa…
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Sauces have informed me that a 📺 deal likely won’t be announced today.The PAC-12 TV deal & new team additions want to dominate sports news cycles. However,it would be popular today,but depending on the outcome of tomorrow’s big games,lose traction. P12 wants to dominate the 🔄
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PAC-12 Interest > BIG-12 Interest
Not only has the PAC-12 generated more interest than the MWC and AAC over the last 90 days, it has surpassed the BIG-12, despite the BIG-12 having significantly more schools, including 4 previous PAC-12 Universities.
🔵 PAC-12
🔴 MWC
🟡 AAC
🟢 BIG-12
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PAC-12 Interest > MWC/AAC Interest
Using Google Trends to measure interest over the last 90 days around the PAC-12, Mountain West, and AAC. The PAC-12, despite being mostly a two team league, has consistently drawn more interest, peaking with expansion news.
🔵 PAC-12
🔴 MWC
🟡 AAC
After Pac 12 is done, the MWC will then begin media courtship and presenting multiple expansion options for the best deal. I don't see any significant value differences in the available options and I can see them settling on NMSU. Just a feeling.
Done deal? Pac 12 will be delivering on what it was proposing, media $ + coverage, to Memphis and Tulane. Now we wait. Not months or weeks, but days or hours?
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A group of investors & ex-Disney executives have met with ADs at 30 power schools with a pitch: a $9 billion infusion as part of a 70-school football league.
Looming over SEC & Big Ten meetings is "Project Rudy."
"The claim is everybody will be saved."
bit.ly/3TYO8QC
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Apple has entered the PAC-12 media rights discussion. Memphis wants to know the numbers before coming to the PAC. Apple might be a partner for some football games, and carry the Olympic sports. A good balance in the new conference will be good.
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I took the average payout per team (in millions) from the NCAA tournament the past two years. Pac 12 2.0 would have edged the ACC and is basically even with the Big 10. Big 12 leads with this data set mainly because they only had 10 mouths to feed in 2023. Now that they have 16 mouths the per team revenue will drop.
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Mountain West is in discussions w/Hawaii about the school joining the league as a full member, sources told
@ActionNetworkHQ. Hawaii has been a MW football member since 2012 & its non-football sports are in the Big West. Mountain West needs 1 full member to meet FBS requirement
Sacramento State averaged less fans than San Jose State. They should be pushing for MWC invite, but I do get using Pac 12 branding as a way to raise money. They will not be seriously considered for Pac 12. I do think they have bigger potential, but years (maybe decades) out, imo
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(AUDIO/McMurphy report): Maybe it's not over between Memphis and the PAC 12??? audacy.com/929espn/sports/me…
