For months Florida State Athletics Director Michael Alford has argued that Florida State deserves a larger share of the ACC’s revenue. His argument has been a simple one: Florida State brings in more television viewers to ACC broadcasts than any other school. Since 2012 only 17 ACC regular-season football games have garnered over 5 million viewers. The Seminoles have played in 12 of them. As Florida State’s official football account tweeted out earlier this week, it has as many 5 million-viewer games as the rest of the ACC combined in 2023. There will be another reminder of the oversized reliance the ACC has on Florida State to maintain it’s relevance when the Seminoles travel to Charlotte for the ACC Championship game this Saturday night.
ACC Championship’s historical woes provide further validation to Florida State’s outsized value to the conference
