(01-05-2018 10:06 PM)msm96wolf Wrote:  I stand corrected.

In addition, I found a link that shows the bowl payouts to be split from the teams. Glad I was incorrect, glad to see the ACC did not give up all the bowl money to ND.

When the Orange Bowl is not a playoff bowl, the best money situation for the ACC is when ND makes the Orange Bowl, because then the ACC gets $41.5m from the OB that year.

The next best situation is what just happened, the B1G making the Orange Bowl, because the ACC gets its normal $27.5m from the OB but also $4.25m for replacing the B1G in the Citrus Bowl (as per the OB agreement). Notre Dame repped the ACC in the Citrus this year.

The worst situation is when the SEC makes the OB, because then the ACC just gets the $27.5m for the OB but does not get to play in the Citrus bowl, the non-CFP bowl with the highest payout, as the SEC's deal with the Citrus says it always plays in that bowl.

Citrus is valuable, it's basically equal in payout to putting a team in a non-playoff NY6 bowl. The ACC and SEC got as much from the Citrus as the PAC and B1G got for having USC and Ohio State in the Cotton Bowl.