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Ranking the most watched CFB teams in 2021

WoadBlue

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Read and remember: It is the fans watching, not the number of Ws, per league that secures the most money.

Top ACC team is Clemson at 19. 7 SEC teams have larger TV audiences than does Clemson, as do 6 Big Ten teams.

Cincy was #28, ahead of all ACC teams but Clemson and FSU @#25. A big part of that was an undefeated regular season, but most of it, I think, was that UC (in a non-Major/Power conference) was good and is a huge state school in a football crazed state. The next ACC schools are Miami and UNC at 35 and 36.

The ACC would be best off if that foursome (Clemson, FSU, Miami, and UNC) were among the clear Top 5 of the league every season.

Also important to note is that a mediocre WVU team not paired against its historic rivals drew more than all ACC teams but those top 4.

BC is #83, and Syracuse is #77. Cuse is worth a lot in basketball, which is a lesser revenue sport, but BC is worth nothing fiscally in either revenue sport.
 
Can we just trade BC and Syracuse for Cincinnati and West Virginia?;)
Syracuse is worth too much in basketball. Cuse is in basketball what PSU is in football: the only school in the entire northeastern region with a truly large fan base that delivers.

But BC offers nothing in either revenue sport.
 
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