Football Bowl Subdivision Revenue per School

by Winfield Featherston on Jul 28, 2009 4:46 PM EDT

HT @ Double Extra Point t for finding this by way of the Orlando Sentinel.

Rank	School	Total Revenue	Conference
1st	Texas	$120,288,370	Big 12
2nd	Ohio State	$117,953,712	Big Ten
3rd	Florida	$106,030,895	Southeastern Conference
4th	Michigan	$99,027,105	Big Ten
5th	Wisconsin	$93,452,334	Big Ten
6th	Penn State	$91,570,233	Big Ten
7th	Auburn	$89,305,326	Southeastern Conference
8th	Alabama	$88,869,810	Southeastern Conference
9th	Tennessee	$88,719,798	Southeastern Conference
10th	Oklahoma State	$88,554,438	Big 12
11th	Kansas	$86,009,257	Big 12
12th	Louisiana State	$84,183,362	Southeastern Conference
13th	Georgia	$84,020,180	Southeastern Conference
14th	Notre Dame	$83,352,439	Independent
15th	Iowa	$81,148,310	Big Ten
16th	Michigan State	$77,738,746	Big Ten
17th	Oklahoma	$77,098,009	Big 12
18th	Stanford	$76,661,466	Pac-10
19th	University of Southern California	$76,409,919	Pac-10
20th	Nebraska	$75,492,884	Big 12
21st	Texas A&M	$74,781,640	Big 12
22nd	Kentucky	$71,186,184	Southeastern Conference
23rd	Duke	$67,820,335	ACC
24th	South Carolina	$66,545,953	Southeastern Conference
25th	UCLA	$66,088,264	Pac-10
26th	Virginia	$65,400,485	ACC
27th	Arkansas	$64,197,470	Southeastern Conference
28th	California	$63,884,710	Pac-10
29th	Minnesota	$63,782,454	Big Ten
30th	Purdue	$62,093,614	Big Ten
31st	North Carolina--Chapel Hill	$61,263,269	ACC
32nd	Boston College	$61,203,340	ACC
33rd	Washington	$60,729,016	Pac-10
34th	Clemson	$59,126,212	ACC
35th	Illinois	$57,167,843	Big Ten
36th	Oregon	$56,623,902	Pac-10
37th	Virginia Tech	$56,029,172	ACC
38th	Indiana	$54,839,398	Big Ten
39th	Connecticut	$54,721,742	Big East
40th	West Virginia	$54,262,716	Big East
41st	Maryland	$54,171,741	ACC
42nd	Arizona State	$53,479,441	Pac-10
43rd	Colorado	$52,631,896	Big 12
44th	Louisville	$52,203,604	Big East
45th	Rutgers	$50,181,300	Big East
46th	Missouri	$49,113,786	Big 12
47th	Kansas State	$48,160,113	Big 12
48th	Oregon State	$47,185,827	Pac-10
49th	Georgia Tech	$47,126,247	ACC
50th	Arizona	$46,988,400	Pac-10

It's interesting to note how much money the Duke Athletic Department brings in (and promptly puts right back into their basketball program). There were 4 ACC schools below Georgia Tech in these rankings: Miami, Florida State (woah!) , NCSU, and Wake Forest. This is what happens when you have rich and snobby boosters. Also, the highest non-BCS school is TCU at #57 ($43,439,777)

Engineers are very stingy about their money. They all want to make sure they get the highest quality product for their money (it's been ingrained in us for 4-6 years to maximize efficiency). These are just a few quick thoughts I had while looking at this list. Can anybody pick up on other things with this list? Texas is rolling in cash!

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Analysis Inspired by Bird

Interesting stats on the financial support that each athletic program garners. I think you can learn even more by looking at the revenue generated per undergraduate student (also a good estimate of revenue generated per alumnus). When handicapped for enrollment the ACC puts up some much more impressive numbers. Duke jumps to the top of the list with over $10,000 earned per undergrad. BC, Virgina, Clemson, and GT also bring in ~$4000 per student or more which is more than I can say for the top 5 schools on the un-normalized list (all closer to $3000 per undergraduate student lost among the masses). I think these figures make us engineers look a little less cheap! Now if we can just make some sort of adjustment for the amount of money people have before attending the school so that I don’t have to see Duke on top . . .

by White and Goldrick on Jul 28, 2009 10:20 PM EDT reply actions

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by BirdGT on Jul 29, 2009 11:03 AM EDT reply actions

Very Interesting Stats

For how small our fanbase is (relatively speaking), we’re not as cheap as I’ve always thought! I wonder if there is a similar list of revenue vs profits?

by GT_thwg on Jul 29, 2009 11:05 AM EDT reply actions

Should be zero profits

…as all Public School AA’s are filed as nonprofits. I don’t know how private AA’s work but I’d assume the same to avoid all the tax difficulties associated with for-profits.

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by BirdGT on Jul 29, 2009 4:38 PM EDT up reply actions