{"id":732038,"date":"2026-02-05T21:53:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T21:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/732038\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T21:53:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T21:53:17","slug":"sec-generates-record-1-03-billion-in-revenue-distribution-for-2024-25-fiscal-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/732038\/","title":{"rendered":"SEC generates record $1.03 billion in revenue distribution for 2024-25 fiscal year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Article-featuredImageImg\" alt=\"gettyimages-2250384289-1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/gettyimages-2250384289-1.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"433\" width=\"770\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The SEC announced Thursday that it distributed a record total of $1.03 billion to its 16 member schools for 2024-25 fiscal year, which ended Aug. 31 2025. The league distributed an average of $72.4 million to its members with full-year financial participation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-football\/teams\/OKLA\/oklahoma-sooners\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oklahoma<\/a> and <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-football\/teams\/TEXAS\/texas-longhorns\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas<\/a>, which joined the SEC in July 2024, received $2.6 million and $12.1 million respectively. Texas&#8217; income was bolstered by its appearance in the 2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/cbssports.com\/college-football\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">College Football<\/a> Playoff.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The SEC&#8217;s annual revenue sharing allows member universities to support elite athletics programs, including sustained and meaningful investment in women&#8217;s and Olympic sports that enhances opportunities and strengthens resources, while advancing the academic and athletic aspirations of thousands of student-athletes,&#8221; SEC commissioner Greg Sankey said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-football\/news\/sec-football-power-rankings-2026-texas-georgia-alabama\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>SEC football power rankings 2026: Texas, Georgia lead the way as Alabama slides down league&#8217;s pecking order<\/p>\n<p>\n                    Brandon Marcello                <\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" alt=\"SEC football power rankings 2026: Texas, Georgia lead the way as Alabama slides down league's pecking order\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/arch-manning.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"152\" width=\"270\"\/><\/p>\n<p>    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The SEC&#8217;s $1.03 billion represents an increase of more than $200 million from 2023-24, when it received $808.4 million in revenue. The amount that each legacy member received also increased by approximately $18.6 million between 2023-24 and 2024-25.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Texas, <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-football\/teams\/UGA\/georgia-bulldogs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Georgia<\/a> and <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-football\/teams\/TENN\/tennessee-volunteers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tennessee<\/a> all represented the SEC in the 2024 College Football Playoff. The Longhorns advanced all the way to the semifinal round, where they lost to eventual national champion <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-football\/teams\/OHIOST\/ohio-state-buckeyes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ohio State<\/a>. The SEC also sent 13 of its 16 universities to bowl games and finished bowl season with an 8-7 record.<\/p>\n<p>The SEC also had plenty of representation in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/news\/march-madness-2026-mens-ncaa-tournament-schedule-dates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the NCAA Men&#8217;s Basketball Tournament<\/a>, where it placed a postseason record of 14 teams. Seven of those programs &#8212; another record &#8212; made it to the Sweet 16 and <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-football\/teams\/FLA\/florida-gators\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florida<\/a> eventually downed <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-football\/teams\/HOU\/houston-cougars\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston<\/a> in the national title game.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Images The SEC announced Thursday that it distributed a record total of $1.03 billion to its 16&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":732039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[331,1301,7,450,5042,105784,105783,49,48,69,1787,105781,105782,8307,5063,1541,1078],"class_list":{"0":"post-732038","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-college-football","9":"tag-florida-gators","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-georgia-bulldogs","12":"tag-houston-cougars","13":"tag-how-much-does-each-sec-school-make","14":"tag-how-much-does-sec-make","15":"tag-ncaa","16":"tag-ncaa-football","17":"tag-ohio-state-buckeyes","18":"tag-oklahoma-sooners","19":"tag-sec-revenue","20":"tag-sec-revenue-distribution","21":"tag-sec-football","22":"tag-southeastern-conference","23":"tag-tennessee-volunteers","24":"tag-texas-longhorns"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116020249042272600","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/732039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}