Team like USC. In a year where they have an SEC Labor Day Game, they would get Notre Dame, The SEC game, ACC Game, BIG Game, and 8 conference games. And if they are pairing similarly positioned teams, for USC that means Alliance games against teams like Clemson, Miami, Penn State and Ohio State. USC is rarely not projected to be at the top of the PAC 12.

That is a brutal schedule and unless they aren’t sharing money from the Big Ten/ACC games, it’s a terrible deal financially for USC. No way they go for a schedule where they play an absolute gauntlet of out of conference games, get fewer games at home and then share money as part of some sort of alliance TV deal. Scheduling alliance sounds great but when you look at the details for football it doesn’t make any sense for the blue bloods unless they’re getting a bigger piece of the revenue.

The other sports don’t matter. The alliance is supposed to counter the SEC’s football dominance.