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Message: [QUOTE="UConnJim, post: 5040154, member: 1559"] I looked up SMU's TV ratings for 2023 and they were not good. No wonder they are getting zero media dollars from the ACC as they are clearly not worth much. The problem with adding them to the ACC is that if the TV contract has to be renegotiated after 2027 and FSU and Clemson leave, SMU massively dilutes the media value of the conference. Ten of their games were rated and five of them had TV viewers of 76k or less. Their highest rated game was on a Friday night on ESPN2 (no competition) against North Texas which had 618k viewers. The next 2 highest rated games were Thursday night games. Here are the games and the ratings: 72k Louisiana Tech/SMU ESPNU Saturday noon 269k SMU/TCU FS1 Saturday noon 18k Charlotte/SMU ESPNU Saturday 7:30 PM 467k SMU/ECU ESPN Thursday 7:30 PM 548k SMU/Temple ESPN Thursday 7:30 PM 33k Tulsa/SMU ESPNU Saturday noon 29k SMU/Rice ESPNU Saturday 7:30 PM 618k North Texas/SMU ESPN2 Friday 9 PM 276k SMU/Memphis ESPN2 Saturday noon 76k Navy/SMU ESPN2 Saturday noon Total viewers for 10 games = 2.4 million. In comparison, Northwestern/Rutgers drew 2.7 million viewers. [/QUOTE]