Yeah, there just isn't the demand from your region. It doesn't help that most of your teams are in highly populated locations. If you look at the SEC for example, most of the schools are located in University towns were the school accounts for most of the local traffic. There are some exceptional like Vandy bit for the most part the SEC and even most of the ACC, B1G, and Big12 have their schools away from major urban/business centers.
Yeah, that's true.
There's just a lot of other things to do that a lot of other places don't have.
No college football? Just in the LA area, there are 2 NFL teams, 2 NBA teams, 2 NHL teams, 2 MLB teams...not to mention beaches, mountains, deserts, amusement parks.
Just a lot of other options.