The list of college football’s most valuable teams ranks the nation’s top programs by average annual revenue, rounded to the nearest million.
The story and the overall analysis looks at what makes up a school's total football revenue, including:
* contributions
* ticket revenue
* royalties and licensing
* conference TV revenue distribution
* sponsors
* athletic apparel deals
College football’s 25 most valuable teams generate a combined $2.5 billion per year in revenue, and they clear more than $1.4 billion annually after expenses. A tremendous portion of those earnings goes toward supporting non-revenue sports, which helps explain why even some of the nation’s biggest athletic departments can still struggle.
From 2014 to 2016, the 23 teams at public schools on the list combined to spend an average $239 million per year on salaries and severance for football coaches, but just $90 million per year on student aid for football players. In the 2016-17 fiscal year alone, those teams’ athletic departments spent a combined $800 million on capital expenditures and $250 million on debt service for athletic facilities. That year, those same athletics programs combined to transfer just $65 million back to their universities to support academic programming.
17 of the Top 25 on the list come from TWO conferences, the SEC and Big 10.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the SEC and the Big Ten are the two conferences that have experienced tremendous success with their conference-specific networks.
The SEC has long dominated the sport on the field, winning nine of the last 12 national championships, and the conference is also the strongest when it comes to money.
The Forbes financial top 25 features 10 teams from the SEC, the most from any conference:
1 Texas A&M
4 Alabama
8 Auburn
9 LSU
10 Florida
11 Tennessee
13 Arkansas
15 South Carolina
16 Georgia
21 Ole Miss
The Big Ten comes next with 7 programs:
3 Michigan
5 Ohio State
14 Penn State
20 Nebraska
22 Michigan State
23 Iowa
24 Wisconsin
No other conference has more than 3 teams on the list.
The Big 12 has 3 teams:
2 Texas
6 Oklahoma
25 Texas Tech
The PAC 12 has 3 teams:
12 Oregon
18 USC
19 Washington
The ACC has 1 team:
17 Florida State
One Independent makes the list:
7 Notre Dame
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Link to the story : https://www.forbes.com/sites/chrissmith/2018/09/11/college-footballs-most-valuable-teams/
The story and the overall analysis looks at what makes up a school's total football revenue, including:
* contributions
* ticket revenue
* royalties and licensing
* conference TV revenue distribution
* sponsors
* athletic apparel deals
College football’s 25 most valuable teams generate a combined $2.5 billion per year in revenue, and they clear more than $1.4 billion annually after expenses. A tremendous portion of those earnings goes toward supporting non-revenue sports, which helps explain why even some of the nation’s biggest athletic departments can still struggle.
From 2014 to 2016, the 23 teams at public schools on the list combined to spend an average $239 million per year on salaries and severance for football coaches, but just $90 million per year on student aid for football players. In the 2016-17 fiscal year alone, those teams’ athletic departments spent a combined $800 million on capital expenditures and $250 million on debt service for athletic facilities. That year, those same athletics programs combined to transfer just $65 million back to their universities to support academic programming.
17 of the Top 25 on the list come from TWO conferences, the SEC and Big 10.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the SEC and the Big Ten are the two conferences that have experienced tremendous success with their conference-specific networks.
The SEC has long dominated the sport on the field, winning nine of the last 12 national championships, and the conference is also the strongest when it comes to money.
The Forbes financial top 25 features 10 teams from the SEC, the most from any conference:
1 Texas A&M
4 Alabama
8 Auburn
9 LSU
10 Florida
11 Tennessee
13 Arkansas
15 South Carolina
16 Georgia
21 Ole Miss
The Big Ten comes next with 7 programs:
3 Michigan
5 Ohio State
14 Penn State
20 Nebraska
22 Michigan State
23 Iowa
24 Wisconsin
No other conference has more than 3 teams on the list.
The Big 12 has 3 teams:
2 Texas
6 Oklahoma
25 Texas Tech
The PAC 12 has 3 teams:
12 Oregon
18 USC
19 Washington
The ACC has 1 team:
17 Florida State
One Independent makes the list:
7 Notre Dame
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Link to the story : https://www.forbes.com/sites/chrissmith/2018/09/11/college-footballs-most-valuable-teams/
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