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College Football's Most Valuable Franchises

abcnews.go.com — The University of Texas Longhorns, worth $92 million, was football's most profitable team last season, earning $46.2 million but they aren't the most valuable on the list. The team that is #1 is AWFUL this year....

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  • wepeel, on 11/25/2007, -0/+47Forbes needs serious work on their list functionality

    1. Notre Dame - value: $101m profit: $45.8m
    2. Texas - value: $92m profit: $46.2m
    3. Georgia - value: $90m profit: $43.5m
    4. Michigan - value: $85m profit: $36.2m
    5. Florida - value: $84m profit: $38.2m
    6. LSU - value: $76m profit: $31.7m
    7. Tennessee - value: $74m profit: $17.3m
    8. Auburn - value: $73m profit: $33.9m
    9. Alabama - value: $72m profit: $31.8m
    10. Ohio State - value: $71m profit: $26.6m
    11. Oklahoma - value: $70m profit: $18.5m
    12. South Carolina - value: $69m profit: $28.9m
    13. Penn State - value: $69m profit: $29.4m
    14. USC - value: $53m profit: $13m
    15. Arkansas - value: $53m profit: $19.3m
    16. Texas A&M - value: $50m profit: $20.5m
    17. Washington - value: $50m profit: $19.9m
    18. Nebraska - value: $49m profit: $12.4m
    19. Michigan State - value: $44m profit: $18.3m
    20. Wisconsin - value: $43m profit: $14.3m
  • TalaBAM, on 11/25/2007, -4/+23Notice the SEC does quite well for itself.
  • elmetald00d, on 11/25/2007, -2/+14except... they're not good..
  • Codasco07, on 11/25/2007, -5/+11Anyone saying Notre Dame fans are ***** obviously hasn't watched any of their games. When ND plays service academies, the fans do not say anything demeaning about the other team and even applaud the team/sing their fight song.
  • tortfeasor, on 11/25/2007, -2/+7I think you meant the ACC is not rich because they are not good.
  • cawpin, on 11/25/2007, -3/+8USC isn't higher because it's a profit list. It's hard to keep your profits up when you're paying your players so much.
  • trendygamer, on 11/25/2007, -2/+7I would say college is in some ways even tougher to coach than professional football - as I understand it in college the head coach is responsible for a lot of the recruiting work, and often has to personally persuade top prospects to come to his school. At least in the pros, teams usually separate on-the-field responsibilities from personnel responsibilities by having a general manager.
  • adml_shake, on 11/25/2007, -3/+7Yeah because it's been hurting them so bad not being part of one. /sarcasim
  • p_o_b, on 11/25/2007, -0/+4I think he meant #1 on this list.
  • DD00, on 11/25/2007, -2/+5Every 50 years or so? When is the last time Notre Dame won a bowl game? Oh that's right, neither of us were alive!
  • rsims17, on 11/25/2007, -0/+3The ACC is a horrible football conference, try again. Need i remind you what LSU did to Va. Tech? Both teams are playing for the a conference title in a week, and LSU bent Va. Tech over and embarrassed them.
  • superal1394, on 11/25/2007, -7/+10I'm not.

    Go Blue!
  • crazynuj, on 11/25/2007, -0/+3I think the rest of the money goes to subsidize less popular sports like fencing, track and field and so on.
    Personally I don't mind this the kid on a fencing scholarship is likely using it get an education since there really isn't any demand for professional fencers these days. However giving a kid a football/B-ball scholarship and then pressuring the profs to pass him just to keep him academically eligible to play is *****.
  • gothsquirrel, on 11/25/2007, -1/+4Did anyone notice the sad sad ratio of money that was spent on academics. After all that profit University of Texas spend 4.7 million on academics. WTF out of 46.2 million where does the rest of that money go.
  • mattyG, on 11/25/2007, -2/+5That would be texas tech
  • Montrell274, on 11/25/2007, -3/+5that is true, especially college football. you're expected to do one thing: WIN!
  • dangerrmouse, on 11/25/2007, -2/+4It IS about money. It SHOULD BE about academics.
  • edstate, on 11/25/2007, -2/+4Nice discourse. Well thought out, intelligent. ...did you play football in college?
  • cawpin, on 11/25/2007, -1/+3Giving you schitt isn't antagonizing you.
  • gettarat, on 11/24/2008, -0/+1when they said the #1 team was awful this year - I knew who it was immediately.
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  • rsims17, on 11/25/2007, -0/+1Financially you will be, and this season has been absolutely insane. The problem the Irish face is now your stuck with Charlie Weis's players. It takes about 3 to 5 years for an old coaches recruits to leave a system. Now your stuck with a roster of problems. Sorry but the Irish face more problems to come, and this season isn't going to help your recruiting class either.
  • vagrantwade, on 11/25/2007, -2/+3Everyone and their catholic mother has at some point in time owned a piece of Fighting Irish merchandise. And God do they suck. Thanks a lot Rudy.
  • dafragsta, on 11/26/2007, -0/+1Even against Colorado.
  • bxbomber, on 11/25/2007, -1/+2A lot these college teams play where there are no pro teams, prob why you don't see any schools from the North East.
  • jzimo, on 11/25/2007, -3/+4Being a Texas fan if Mack Brown doesn't start beating a&m I hope Texas starts to drop on that list. The only way a program that has serious coaching problems starts to change is when the money stops flowing in.
  • whataboutdave, on 11/25/2007, -0/+1People have been saying that for years but in their case they don't need a conference. Their name alone gets them into bowl games when other teams would not be able to. On top of that, it allows them to schedule the most creative and eclectic schedule in the country which does a lot for annual ticket sales. Conferences need them more than they need a conference.
  • Skepsis, on 11/25/2007, -4/+5when they said the #1 team was awful this year - I knew who it was immediately.
  • Juroujin, on 11/25/2007, -1/+2I went to Pasadena to watch ASU vs UCLA; UCLA fans are pretty antagonistic (well, we ASU fans are pretty bad ourselves haha). This one guy looked back at us everytime UCLA scored to give us a thumbs down.
  • imashmuck, on 11/25/2007, -0/+1I don't know, you go into the job knowing you're going to get fired. Look at coaches of any professional sports teams, if they make it for 5 years for one team they're doing pretty well.
  • hbweb500, on 11/25/2007, -2/+3Most school's run their football programs separately. OSU does not. In fact, the entire athletic department is operated off of the money raised by the football program.
  • ZenFountain, on 11/25/2007, -0/+1It is, but it's also very lucrative. Just ask Bill Callahan, Husker fans and boosters ate him alive this season. College football is getting too much into big business anyway. I used to love Husker football but now it's become more of a mania than tradition.
  • misterhat, on 11/25/2007, -2/+3where do you go? seriously, my experience in South Bend was NOTHING like that.

    Did you go to SC? That could explain it...
  • starkruzr, on 11/25/2007, -2/+3As a Fighting Irishman, let me just say...
    Have a nice day.
  • dafragsta, on 11/26/2007, -0/+1Don't worry, I know some boys to the north that'll drop them for another 5 years or so. ;)
  • starkruzr, on 11/25/2007, -2/+3Why? No one actually *likes* the Buckeyes. >:)
  • starkruzr, on 11/25/2007, -0/+1Did you miss the NBC contract? We'll be fine, thanks.
    The 2008 and 2009 seasons are going to be very, very interesting for the Irish. And let's please not make any predictions based on this college football season, hm? NCAA football has made absolutely NO SENSE WHATSOEVER. Hell, look at Oregon and UCLA last night.
  • rsims17, on 11/25/2007, -0/+1That depends on the conference and the team. They will need a conference soon if they cant turn around from this season, the only reason they can pull major bowl games is because of the name and they schedule a few nationally known teams a year and then fill the rest with cupcake teams. This allows them to focus on a few games out of the year and avoid being beaten up for 12 games. If this season is a sign of things to come they will need a conference to give them the credibility back. Generally speaking though the major conferences do not need Notre Dame to fill seats, sorry but your logic is flawed.
  • rsims17, on 11/25/2007, -0/+1North eastern schools traditionally are not football programs they are basketball programs, historically speaking. I don't think this as any viable connection to the NFL. http://geography.about.com/library/weekly/aa042700 ... that maps the locations of NFL teams. the college schools are pretty well distributed in throughout. except for a majority of SEC schools but that is to be expected.
  • Cerebral, on 11/26/2007, -0/+1Very true indeed. I lived in Memphis for a year and the front page of the sports section during football season was Tennessee EVERY DAY. I had to dig about 5 pages into the sports section to even find any mention of the NFL let alone the Titans.
  • dafragsta, on 11/26/2007, -0/+1It should be about academic standards, but that doesn't mean it can't also be about the money. There is certainly demand for the product there, and I don't think players should get competitive packages at the college level, but I think big universities that turn a profit should divide that profit up among all the players in the athletic program and place it in a trust that the players only get access to upon graduation. Let them borrow against the balance at defined increments universally to allow them to have some of that money to fill the space of a part time job.

    It's stupid to ignore a waiting public who wants to see these games. It's also unfair to deny the kids who put their bodies on the line, all the proceeds. It's wrong to make a college setting about athletics exclusively, even for a few, but it doesn't mean there isn't a real solution. America has a fascination with football. I think college football is a better product than professional football because the players are playing to win. Only a select few can even expect to be drafted into the NFL. Of those, even fewer will ever become a regular starter. However, almost every one of those guys who get drafted were big time college players putting their ass on the line and risking debilitating injury for no financial reward, not even an allowance to cover the part-time job the student athlete can't hive because he spends most hours outside of class, at practice almost all year long.
  • cawpin, on 11/25/2007, -2/+3You are an idiot. I'm not even a ND fan and I can tell you that.
  • misterhat, on 11/25/2007, -2/+3What are you talking about? I went to UCLA and went out to South Bend my senior year (last year) where we lost in the last seconds of the game. I was expecting endless ***** on the way out of the stadium (i mean, i probably would have done that had we won) but the only thing I heard was how it was such a good, exciting game. I was taken aback at how polite everyone was.
  • ZenMojo, on 11/25/2007, -1/+1ND is always the most valuable team. ND fans can't turn down a ticket.
  • mattyG, on 11/25/2007, -3/+3Whooooop!
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  • imashmuck, on 11/25/2007, -1/+1You have to remember that it's only taking into account of last year. I'm surprised USC is so low with them always having a pretty good to great team. Also Georgia surprises me too.
  • vw195, on 11/25/2007, -0/+0Dont forget about Title IX
  • DaneTrain, on 11/25/2007, -1/+1USC at #14 really surprises me. Big time program in one of the largest media markets in the United States (and the largest one without an NFL team), I assumed it would be right behind Notre Dame. My entire conception of college football programs has been shattered :/
  • h2g242, on 11/26/2007, -1/+1How about joining a ***** conference. No you know what keep on playing air force navy and army. Looks real good beating up on them every year. Oh wait...
  • KaJuN4, on 11/25/2007, -0/+0It's pretty ridiculous that schools are making dozens of millions of dollars from football yet students like myself are struggling to pay for classes and all the little fees universities like to charge. Profits from athletics are increasing yet tuition continues to rise. Something isn't right here.
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