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https://www.denvergazette.com/2026/02/27/the-new-look-pac-12-is-coming-can-it-crash-the-high-major-hoops-party-college-basketball-insider/ The new-look Pac-12 is coming. Can it crash the high-major hoops party? | College Basketball Insider

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/48041478/sec-big-ten-study-pooling-tv-rights-dangerously-unworkable

If you are a millionaire or billionaire, and one of your forms of entertainment is college sports, it makes all the sense in the world.

https://dbknews.com/2026/02/23/maryland-athletics-big-ten-revenue-spending-report-sports-business/ Lots of little tidbits of information in this article. Maryland will finally start receiving full shares of B1G revenue in 2027. They joined with Rutgers in 2014 and became fully vested members...

Not that it changes anything in the grand scheme of things, but this list only includes the public universities. Notre Dame, USC, etc. are not on it, nor are any of the Big East schools outside UConn.

https://www.hustlebelt.com/mac-football/44628/sacramento-state-football-to-mid-american-conference-pros-and-cons-column Sac State is also a positive addition in terms of media market. The MAC’s upcoming media rights negotiations in 2027 necessitated a move— especially with Northern Illinois...

That implies it is bad for both sides. The MAC comes out ahead I think. Nothing to lose. Not only do they get paid and all travel expenses covered, but the MAC TV deal is about to be renegotiated and they just added the 20th largest media market in the country to their offerings. Those Tuesday...

https://www.hustlebelt.com/mac-football/44628/sacramento-state-football-to-mid-american-conference-pros-and-cons-column?fbclid=IwdGRjcAQA5KlleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEezImTW8sVcaS0-vTQNRxgYSw6F7RwTteUnzRHnk3WK-y85clxg202XvQE9Rg_aem_bv7Bxt_KaTLYzUtXgJ2yBA

I wonder which conferences Sac State targeted ahead of the MAC? The MAC would have been stupid to say no to that deal. I think some other conferences probably should have accepted that deal and didn't. Time for the BALL SAC game.

It is in the middle............of the west coast.

The MAC schools need the money. And one trip to CA every three years isn’t bad for them. They probably have one long road trip within three years in non-conference games anyways.

$18 million to the MAC, $5 million to join the FBS, $1 million in NIL. That’s $24 million right there. And no revenue sharing from the MAC. Where are they getting their money? The MAC schools would take one trip to CA every three years. This is likely a temporary arrangement, which means...

Outside of the random inclusion of Maryland that would never happen, here are a couple observatons: 1. The top ACC brands will not be in the ACC much longer, and would thus not be available for this "consolidaton". 2. The net worth of the Big 12 and the remaining ACC schools isn't enough to...

https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/local/ohio/toledo-mac-football-attendance-financial-impact/512-7e89288c-8e89-4e4b-b4eb-9051d4ab609a Empty seats, rising costs: Why MAC football’s attendance numbers raise a sustainability question Toledo and Ohio have the highest attendance in the MAC and are...

So are Maryland and Penn State.