Media Rankings

The top-tier brands and their average weekly television viewership during the 2025 regular season were as follows:
Alabama Crimson Tide: ~7.01 - 8.49 million
Texas Longhorns: ~6.88 - 7.55 million
Georgia Bulldogs: ~6.17 - 7.48 million
Tennessee Volunteers: ~6.21 - 7.03 million
Ohio State Buckeyes: ~5.68 - 6.57 million
Oklahoma Sooners: ~4.91 - 6.64 million
LSU Tigers: ~4.28 - 6.42 million
Mchigan Wolverines: ~4.27 - 5.08 million

SEC. viewership Averaged 43.61 million eyeballs per week for these six teams. Big 10 11.65 million for Two teams. Problem for Big 10 they don’t have another four schools to match the SEC.

Six of top eight programs from the SEC. Two from Big 10.

How is ESPN getting away grossly underpaying the SEC?

Sankey better open up bidding the next round of media negotiations to multiple networks. Disney/ ESPN has been getting a free ride.

Also, why should the big SEC schools carrying the load get even shares with the likes of Kentucky, Missouri, Vanderbilt, Mississippi St etc? They should not.

I propose the SEC payout media money based on percentage of viewship.