Select SEC Non-Conference Matchups Available on ESPN+.
A Regular SEC Football Game on ABC in the Late Afternoon Window SEC Games to be Part of ABC’s Saturday Night Football Franchise.SEC Football Championship Game on ABC Each Year.Adds 15 Premier Football Games, Eight Marquee Men’s Basketball Games Ensuring That Every Football and Men’s Basketball Game Airs on an ESPN Network.10 Russell Athletic Bowl - $2.ESPN and Southeastern Conference Reach a New 10-Year Agreement With the exception of the Chik-Fil-A Bowl, both teams are awarded the same amount coming into a championship game. This listing of the biggest bowl games in college football includes numbers for the 2013 season and take into account the amount of money that each team gets. This could be due to the SEC having a stronger reputation for football and being a bigger ratings draw than an AAC team. The eighth or ninth team in the SEC gets $1 million while the fifth place team from the American Athletic Conference gets just $900,000. The BBVA Compass Bowl is an example of this. Some games even have disparities in terms of how teams are paid out, but this is often due to the teams' individual records.
The fact that teams in the MWC and MAC, two conferences that are not in high demand for TV rights, play in this game only serves to make the bowl less profitable. For instance, the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl pays $325,000 to each team that plays. Meanwhile, low-level bowls tend to get less money because they involve teams that aren't in much demand for a television audience or for sponsorships. Since college football is so popular in the United States, these games are also able to land bigger TV rights packages.
More prominent games, particularly Bowl Championship Series games, will get more money because they attract a larger number of sponsors and ones that can pay more money. For instance, a good amount of the $650,000 that each team in the Hawaii Bowl gets for playing in that game comes from Sheraton, the game's title sponsor. This money often comes from a combination of both television broadcast rights and sponsorship rights for individual games. Schools are getting millions of dollars for reaching bowl games. While the added success and national television exposure greatly help for recruiting purposes, the money generated from these games is especially significant for winning teams. There are 35 different bowl games in the college football season every year from mid-December to early January.Ĭollege football programs are looking to reach bowl games not only to cap off a season but also to earn more money for their school and their team. Today these games have expanded to include a variety of different tournaments and championships. The Tournament East-West Football Game, eventually became known as the Rose Bowl, the oldest and most stories of all college football matches. College bowl games have been around since Januwith a game between Michigan and Stanford in Pasadena's Tournament Park.