Just to add evidence to support my attendance point stated below. Vanderbilt (3-5) vs Arkansas (2-6) had an attendance number of 56,245 in Razorbacks Stadium which has a capacity of 76,000.
Contrast Wazzu vs Stanford, two ranked teams fighting for first place in the North, 39,596 (yeah, right 🙄 more like 20,000). Stanford Stadium capacity 50,000.
That’s why the SEC gets more money than the PAC12.