All Football Bowl Subdivision conferences and independent institutions will receive significant increases in revenue from the College Football Playoff under the revenue-distribution plan adopted unanimously by the playoff Board of Managers—university presidents and chancellors representing the ten conferences that manage the event.

Each of those ten Football Bowl Subdivision conferences is expected to at least double the annual revenue that had been received under the BCS arrangement. The higher payments are a result of the increase in overall revenues from the playoff.

While annual revenue distributions will fluctuate from year to year based on the sites of the playoff semifinals and national championship game, and the gross revenue from all games, all conferences will gain significantly.

Revenue from the playoff will accrue to the conferences and to the independent institutions. There are four components to the distribution: (1) A new allotment that provides revenue to conferences based on the number of teams meeting the NCAA’s then-existing Academic Progress Rate (APR) for participation in a post-season football game, (2) a base share, (3) a share allocated for participation in one of the games and (4) expenses for participating institutions.

“The College Football Playoff will include the top four teams, but every conference will benefit under the new arrangement. This approach rewards those teams that are part of the event and is fair to all the conferences and independent institutions that participate and make the College Football Playoff possible. It really will be a big win for all,” said Bill Hancock, Executive Director of the playoff.

The following estimates of the CFP revenue distribution are based on preliminary calculations for the 2014-2015 season and are only approximate projections of potential revenue distribution from each component:

(1) Each conference will receive $300,000 for each of its schools when the school’s football team meets the NCAA’s APR for participation in a post-season football game. Each independent institution will also receive the $300,000 when its football team meets that standard.

(2) Each of the 10 conferences will also receive a base amount. For conferences that have contracts for their champions to participate in the Orange, Rose or Sugar Bowl, the base combined with the full academic performance pool will be approximately $50 million for each conference. The five conferences that do not have contracts for their champions to participate in the Orange, Rose or Sugar Bowls will receive approximately $75 million in aggregate (full academic pool plus base), which the conferences will distribute as they choose. Notre Dame will receive a payment of $2.3 million if it meets the APR; the other three independents will share $922,658.

(3) A conference will receive $6 million for each team that is selected for the semifinal games. There will be no additional distribution to conferences whose teams qualify for the national championship game. A conference will receive $4 million for each team that plays in a non-playoff bowl under the arrangement (in 2014-2015, the Cotton, Fiesta and Peach Bowls).

(4) Each conference whose team participates in a playoff semifinal, Cotton, Fiesta or Peach Bowl, or in the national championship game will receive $2 million to cover expenses for each game.

Additionally, certain conferences in the Football Championship Subdivision conferences will receive $2.25 million in aggregate.

For informational purposes, following is the revenue distribution for 2014, the final year of the Bowl Championship Series:

* Base share to each of the six automatic-qualifying conferences: $27.897 million;

* Share to the four conferences without automatic qualification, in aggregate: $13.168 million;

* Share to Notre Dame: $2.319 million;

* Share to each other independent institution: $100,000;

* Share to a conference or independent institution for each team selected at large: $6.3 million.