What Is USF's College Football Program Worth?

[Economics_Nerd82]

There is an article in the WSJ this morning about the value, in millions, of major-conference college-football programs.

USF was ranked at number 53 with a value of $101.2. I was shocked to see that we beat out some other football programs with a lot more history and success. As a comparison, UCF is ranked number 65 with a value of $57.0

Perhaps the Gods to be at the ACC or B12 will read this and see how valuable we are

I think we beat out everyone else that is currently in the BE, Connecticut was ranked 52 with a value of 101.8.

http://online.wsj.co...abs=interactive

Interesting find.

The chart in the link you provided has us at 53 and UConn at 52. Was there another link somewhere in the article. I don't UCF ranked at all on the chart. It looks like Pittsburgh is number 65, not UCF. According to the article, these rankings are for the 2011-12 season. With that in mind, it wouldn't have taken into account our 3-9 record this year and conference mess, so we probably dropped.

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The chart just shows a ranking of selectively chosen universities.  Not all of them in order.

 

Try this one for the interactive chart.

 

The interactive chart you are linked to if for 2011 evaluations. The one in the first link is for 2012. The value represents what the price of the program would be to a buyer.

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Imagine if the top 14 schools formed their own [big Money] conference:

 

Big Ten/12/Independent Division

Michigan

Nebraska

Penn State

Ohio State

Notre Dame

Oklahoma

Texas

 

SEC Division

Tennessee

Florida

Arkansas

Georgia

Alabama

LSU

Auburn

[charsibb]

They'd be accepted into the NFL...

[Gismo]

well

according to the free market not much since none of the big five wants usf as a conference member

keep your charts and articles

i like to live in the real world

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This is a more logical approach by smazza for once.

[The Great 8]

Disagree. We could be worth that much as a "franchise" that doesn't mean we add that much value to the conferences adjacent to us.

 

If ACC loses FL presence we are instantly in -- big if.