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John Swofford confident ACC Network will close revenue gap with SEC, Big Ten

During the fiscal year that ended in 2015, the ACC reported more than $403 million in revenue, an increase of 33.3 percent from the previous year and an increase of more than 80 percent over three years.

And yet the conference generated more than $100 million less than the SEC, and nearly $50 million less than the Big Ten during the 2014-15 fiscal year. The gap between those leagues and the ACC is likely to only widen before the launch of the ACC Network in 2019.

Once the channel does launch, though, ACC Commissioner John Swofford expects that it will significantly close the revenue gap between the ACC and its rival conferences.