Report: SEC, Big Ten Could Benefit From New College Football Revenue System

The Oklahoma Sooners could be set up nicely heading into the SEC, as the talent pool mixed with revenue difference could pay off in the long run in a big way. Obviously, playing in the toughest college football conference is going to help land the Sooners better playoff positioning, and an easier bid to a chance at a National Championship.

Playing in the SEC looks like it will continue to have more perks for Oklahoma, too. The College Football Playoffs seems to be the guideline in separating the Power Four to two tiers — the SEC and Big Ten as a Power Two, followed by the Big 12 and ACC. Had the Sooners stayed in the Big 12, they would be on the backend of that discretion.

Yahoo Sports’ Ross Dellenger reported on a new potential revenue format to benefit the Big Ten and SEC the most of any other conferences, which obviously gives the Sooners and company a leg up.

“The CFP is barreling toward a new format and revenue model that skews toward the new Power Two of college athletics, creating a more formal delineation between two groups: the SEC and Big Ten; the ACC and Big 12,” Dellenger wrote.

The new revenue model would ensure the Power Two conferences would be earning more money, giving them an advantage to continually compete at a higher level across the sport.

“While the Power Two separated themselves long ago through increased revenue streams and recent expansion, a new playoff model is expected to draw a more permanent line. Using an uneven revenue distribution, a tangible separation is forming between college football’s haves and those that were once veritable equals in the space,” Dellenger continued.

In the new proposal, the Power Two is set to receive 58 percent of the revenue generated by the playoffs, whereas the Power Five — before the fall of the Pac-12 — used to split 80 percent of the revenue quite evenly.

While this will drive a wedge into the Power Four, at least Oklahoma is on the benefitting side of it all.

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