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There's no trophy for this honor, but that's OK: The money is enough. Ohio State has emerged as the most valuable college football program in the country, and it's not even close, according to a recent study.

According to a finance professor at Indiana University-Purdue University, the Buckeyes football program is worth more than $1.1 billion -- by far the best valuation for any college football program. The next best is Michigan, with a valuation just shy of $1 billion.

In third place was Texas, which had topped the professor's list of valuations from last year. Texas' monetary valuation increased by almost $100 from last year's figures, but huge gains in revenue for both Ohio State and Michigan propelled those programs ahead of the Longhorns, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The inflation of sports franchise valuations, spurred on by the last year's sale of the Los Angeles Clippers for a record $2 billion, also inflated figures for college football programs. Last year's rankings featured no teams worth more than $900 million; this year, four programs topped that mark.
 
http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-much-is-your-favorite-college-football-team-worth-1452473476

How Much Is Your Favorite College Football Team Worth?
Ohio State retains its position as the most valuable program in college football
By ANDREW BEATON
Jan. 10, 2016 7:51 p.m. ET

On Monday night, Ohio State will relinquish its reign as college football’s national champion to Alabama or Clemson.

But the Buckeyes have kept hold of a more lucrative title: college football’s most valuable program.

Ohio State’s football team leads the country with a value of $946.6 million, according to an annual study by Ryan Brewer, an assistant professor of finance at Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus. This is Ohio State’s second consecutive year atop the rankings after it overtook Texas, which places second at $885 million and has the nation’s largest revenue at $128 million. Michigan places a distant third at $811.3 million.

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How Much Is Your College Football Team Worth?
Three programs—Ohio State, Texas and Oklahoma—are valued at over a billion dollars
By Andrew Beaton
Sept. 21, 2017 9:20 a.m. ET

The college football season is in full swing and the picture for this year’s College Football Playoff is still as jumbled as it was in February. But there’s one question we can answer: Which team is the most valuable?

That would be Ohio State, which has surged to a $1.5 billion valuation, according to an analysis by Ryan Brewer, an associate professor of finance at Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus. That’s a 59.6% increase in value for a program that was already worth the most nationally according ...

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Skull Session: Ross Bjork Wants Ryan Day and the Buckeyes to “Let Loose” in 2025, The Athletic Valuates the Ohio State Football Program at $1.9 Billion

Ross Bjork wants Ryan Day and the Buckeyes to “let loose” in 2025, and The Athletic estimates the Ohio State football program is worth $1.9 billion.
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Skull Session: Ross Bjork Wants Ryan Day and the Buckeyes to “Let Loose” in 2025, The Athletic Valuates the Ohio State Football Program at $1.9 Billion​


SHOW ME THE MONEY! This week, The Athletic’s Matt Baker asked the question: How much would it take to purchase your favorite college football program? For the Eleven Warriors audience, I will tweak that question to this: How much would it take to purchase the Ohio State football team?

The answer: $1.9 billion.

Here’s how Baker calculated that number (and the number for several other top programs from across the nation):

We approached the hypothetical question with a methodology that was part art, part science. We used real-life pro transactions to gauge purchase prices relative to a team’s revenue over the past three available years of data. NFL and NBA sales guided our ratios in the SEC and Big Ten, while the MLB and NHL were our rough benchmarks in the ACC and Big 12. For each school in a Power 4 conference (plus Notre Dame), we factored in everything from prestige and championships to facility renovations, population trends and realignment scenarios. That means treating Notre Dame more like the Los Angeles Lakers and Boston College more like the Kansas City Royals.
Because athletic departments isolate and report football revenue differently, our numbers are squishy. Actual transactions are much more complicated than what we did with a spreadsheet or what you see on “Shark Tank.” But the process is imperfect in the real world, too. What a team sells for (our objective with this story) is not the same as a team’s actual value (a story for another day). Buyers routinely pay a premium because there are only so many opportunities to own a sports team.
That sentiment would be even stronger in college football, where pre-established allegiances and irrational decisions already run deeper. Though Texas A&M just missed our $1 billion club, it’s easy to envision a few Aggies boosters artificially boosting the price to brag about spending 10 figures on their team. Or some Michigan fan paying extra to make sure the Wolverines out-priced Ohio State.
Do not take our numbers to the bank, literally or metaphorically. Instead, consider this a fun attempt at blending back-of-the-envelope math with common sense to price college programs like their professional peers — an exercise that’s theoretical for now … but might not be much longer.
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  1. Texas: $2.38 billion
  2. Georgia: $1.92 billion
  3. Ohio State: $1.9 billion
  4. Notre Dame: $1.85 billion
  5. Michigan: $1.83 billion
  6. Alabama: $1.74 billion
  7. Oklahoma: $1.49 billion
  8. USC: $1.4 billion
  9. Tennessee: $1.37 billion
  10. LSU: $1.23 billion
You know, as much as college football has drifted toward professionalization (see: name, image, and likeness and revenue sharing), at least one key difference remains: NCAA teams are not for sale. (Well, not yet… shoutout to Boise State and Florida State exploring private equity options.) Still, it’s fascinating to see just how valuable the Ohio State brand is — through an exercise that’s part imagination, part math, and all about perspective.
 
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www.elevenwarriors.com

Skull Session: Ross Bjork Wants Ryan Day and the Buckeyes to “Let Loose” in 2025, The Athletic Valuates the Ohio State Football Program at $1.9 Billion

Ross Bjork wants Ryan Day and the Buckeyes to “let loose” in 2025, and The Athletic estimates the Ohio State football program is worth $1.9 billion.
www.elevenwarriors.com www.elevenwarriors.com

Skull Session: Ross Bjork Wants Ryan Day and the Buckeyes to “Let Loose” in 2025, The Athletic Valuates the Ohio State Football Program at $1.9 Billion​


SHOW ME THE MONEY! This week, The Athletic’s Matt Baker asked the question: How much would it take to purchase your favorite college football program? For the Eleven Warriors audience, I will tweak that question to this: How much would it take to purchase the Ohio State football team?

The answer: $1.9 billion.

Here’s how Baker calculated that number (and the number for several other top programs from across the nation):


  1. Texas: $2.38 billion
  2. Georgia: $1.92 billion
  3. Ohio State: $1.9 billion
  4. Notre Dame: $1.85 billion
  5. Michigan: $1.83 billion
  6. Alabama: $1.74 billion
  7. Oklahoma: $1.49 billion
  8. USC: $1.4 billion
  9. Tennessee: $1.37 billion
  10. LSU: $1.23 billion
You know, as much as college football has drifted toward professionalization (see: name, image, and likeness and revenue sharing), at least one key difference remains: NCAA teams are not for sale. (Well, not yet… shoutout to Boise State and Florida State exploring private equity options.) Still, it’s fascinating to see just how valuable the Ohio State brand is — through an exercise that’s part imagination, part math, and all about perspective.
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Notably absent from that top-10 list: Pedsters.
 
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