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Originally Posted by Saul Good
I disagree with your last line...or maybe just a single word of it. Texas wouldn't be THE big gorilla in any other major conference. They would be A big gorilla. The biggest market outside of Texas in the Big 12 is Oklahoma City.
Outside of Texas, there are 9.6 million people living in states with Big 12 teams. Florida has 20 million, and Georgia has 10 million.
Texas is the only state with teams in both conferences, and it has over 26 million people. Take them out of the equation, and here are the states in the two conferences and where that ranks them nationally...
4. Florida. SEC
8. Georgia. SEC
17. Tennessee. SEC
18. Missouri. SEC
23. Alabama. SEC
24. South Carolina. SEC
25. Louisiana. SEC
26. Kentucky. SEC
28. Oklahoma. Big 12
30. Iowa. Big 12
31. Mississippi. SEC
32. Arkansas. SEC
34. Kansas Big 12
38. *West Virginia Big 12
*West Virginia is the smallest state with a BCS school. (Kansas is the third smallest). The Big 12 literally has three teams in states smaller than any state represented in any other BCS conference except for the B1G with Nebraska...whom they poached from the Big 12.
It's impressive that the conference has experienced even the limited amount of success that it has given the demographic imbalance. The problem is that realignment cost the conference it's three biggest markets outside Texas (Denver, Saint Louis, and KC), it's most successful program (Nebraska football), and ripped a gaping hole in Texas (aTm to the SEC).
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Just hideous logic. Your numbers are so laughably misleading. Yeah, Texas has 4 Big 12 schools vs 1 SEC but lets toss that out of the comparison entirely . Awful.
And of course Florida has 20M folks. They are all captive SEC fans of course with no alternatives. If what you said had any basis in reality it'd be reflected in tv comp.