Bowl matchups

Tennessee

 

Found this:
"Note that per-team payouts are not really the dollar amounts that go to each team. Bowl money goes to the conferences, and then the conferences distribute the money to their members as they see fit. In most of the BCS conferences, the total bowl money brought in by a conference is distributed evenly amongst all the teams in the conference. This is not the case in the Big East and the SEC, where participating teams are rewarded more handsomely. The ACC, Big Ten, Big 12 and PAC 10 split revenues equally among all members. The Big East splits the revenues equally among all members after deducting "participation" allowances, which are based on conference standings. The Big East conference champion, which participates in a BCS bowl, has a $4 million "allowance." Second place has an allowance of $1.8 million, third place $1.65 million, and so on through all their bowl tie-ins.

The SEC isn't quite as generous to participating teams, although it does split revenue based on a formula where participating members receive a larger share based on the bowl payout. Non-participating members split the balance."



Something else that was interesting from the article:
"A Little-Known Fact About BCS Payouts

The BCS bowl (Rose, Sugar, Fiesta, and Orange) payouts are defined as $11.67 million per team. This year, the Big 12 and SEC have two BCS teams each, so you would think the payouts would go like this:

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• Big 12 and SEC: 2 x $11.78 million = $23.56 million
• Other BCS conferences = $11.78 million
• Total BCS payout = 8 x $11.78 million = $94.24 million

But there's a little-known wrinkle in how the BCS distributes the money. In order to keep the two-team conferences from profiting so much in comparison to the one-team conferences, this rule is invoked (from the BCS web site):

This coming season, BCS participants will receive between $11.78-14.67 million depending on the conference affiliation of the at-large participants. Should the at-large participants come from outside the original BCS conferences -- ACC, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, PAC 10 or SEC -- those participants will receive $11.78 million. If one or both at-large selections come from within the original BCS group, the first conference participant shall receive $11.78 million and the second participant from that same conference shall receive $6 million. The remaining dollars (the difference between $11.78 million and $6 million) will be split among the originating BCS conferences that have just one participant.

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What that means is this: Each conference gets $11.78 million to start. Since the Big 12 and SEC have two teams, they each get an additional $6 million (for $17.78 million total), and another $11.56 million ($5.78 million times two) is distributed to the other four conferences, giving them $14.67 million each:

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• SEC and Big 12: $17.78 million
• Other BCS conferences = $14.67 million

You can see that a split of $17.78 million versus $14.67 million is much more equitable than $23.56 million versus $11.78 million."

 

I don't know what that article is talking about. There's only one BCS team from the SEC. Got my ten Sugar Bowl tickets for cheap.

 

It's from 2001, dude.

 

That's twice in one day he's done that.