FORBES: The Most Valuable College Football Teams
 

1. Notre Dame - $101 million, $45.8 million profit
2. Texas - $92 million, $46.2 million profit
3. Georgia - $90 million, $43.5 million profit
4. Michigan - $85 million, $36.2 million profit
5. Florida - $84 million, $38.2 million profit
6. LSU - $76 million, $31.7 million profit
7. Tennessee - $74 million, $17.3 million profit
8. Auburn - $73 million, $33.9 million profit
9. Alabama - $72 million, $31.8 million profit
10. Ohio State - $71 million, $26.6 million profit
11. Oklahoma - $70 million, $18.5 million profit
12. South Carolina - $69 million, $28.9 million profit
13. Penn St - $69 million, $29.4 million profit
14. USC - $53 million, $13 million profit
15. Arkansas - $53 million, $19.3 million profit
16. Texas A&M - $50 million, $20.5 million profit
17. Washington - $50 million, $19.9 million profit
18. Nebraska - $49 million, $12.4 million profit
19. Michigan State - $44 million, $18.3 million profit
20. Wisconsin - $43 million, $14.3 million profit

http://www.forbes.com/sportsbusiness...llegeball.html

I love thee Notre Dame

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Interesting read, thanks.

I'm suprised that aTm is rnked higher than Nebraska, considering Nebraska's decades long dominance.

And fuck Notre Dame.

More $$$ in Texas than Nebraska.

Agreed.... Go Blue.

Granted. But they have been a good, not great, college team. I'm suprised they pull that kind of revenue over a team that was (and I do mean WAS) considered the top tier of college football for so long.*




*DISCLAIMER - I am in NO WAY a Cornhusker honk.

How does army buy all those tanks and not be on this list

aTm has a bigger stadium than the Cornholes.

Missouri being shunned by the national media again.....

The refs screwed them.

8 of the 20 are SEC teams!

SWEET!

:hmmm: Didn't see Kansas on the list either. Must just be a bunch of poor farmers out here.

Nebraska has money, but I think the Texas schools get contributions from big whigs like the Bush family.

Ahhh Notre Dame. It's nice to see us #1 in something right now. Too bad it's nothing important for the fans.

We're just happy to be where we are.

So Notre Dame is worth 50 million per victory?

Does not suprise me; have you ever seen the campus of aTm? That place is friggin amazing. Hell they have their own golf course.

6 out of the top 10 LMAO

mOnay in tha south!

Most schools don't have their own golf course? :shrug:

I thought they did.

So did I. He seemed impressed that aTm had their own.

South Carolina at #12 surprises me......were they ever good before Spurrier? And what the hell have they done recently?

Alabama and Auburn both in the top ten is also surprising considering Alabama is one of the poorest states in the country.

How were these rankings determined?

Money, dude. And you know what those three teams have in common?

Conference.

SEC = CBS = $.

"Unlike the other programs on our list, Notre Dame's athletic department operates under the umbrella of the university and is not run as its own distinct entity. As a result, a much higher share of profits are retained by university for academic use."

Well, that's a great reason to support Irish sports. Why don't the other programs on the list do that?