Big Ten revenue distributions mark new record for conference
USC joined the Big Ten for many reasons. One was revenue. The conference is delivering.
Now the Trojans, particularly in football, need to deliver
USC left the Pac-12 and joined the Big Ten for several reasons, but one was certainly money. The Big Ten is giving the school what it expected: large revenue distributions. From the Big Ten website : "The Big Ten Conference today (Friday) announced a distribution of $1.
37 billion to the conference's 18 member institutions for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, marking the largest distribution in conference history. This represents an increase of $490 million when compared to the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, during which the conference distributed $883 million. The distributions provide meaningful support to institutions in their continued effort to provide broad-based athletic opportunities to more than 14,000 Big Ten student-athletes.
"The record disbursement reflects the first full year of the Big Ten’s current broadcast media rights agreements, as well as the conference's success in the first year of the expanded College Football Playoff. It also marks the first year in which the conference was comprised of 18 world-class universities following the additions of Oregon, UCLA, USC and Washington in August 2024. "Big Ten institutions have captured each of the last three College Football Playoff Championships (Indiana in 2026, Ohio State in 2025 and Michigan in 2024) and featured the most selections from any conference in the first round of the 2026 NFL Draft.