Top 10 most valuable college football teams (according to Forbes)

[El Supremo]

1 Texas – $139 million
2 Notre Dame – $117 million
3 Alabama – $110 million
4 LSU – $105 million
5 Michigan – $104 million
6 Florida – $94 million
7 Oklahoma – $92 million
8 Georgia – $91 million
9 Ohio State – $83 million
10 Nebraska – $80 million

http://collegesportsblog.dallasnews.com/2013/12/forbes-texas-longhorns-the-most-valuable-college-football-team-again-worth-139-million.html/

This would be a good thing if the most of the money didn't just go into sports.

[madinmaryland]

1. "This would be a good thing if the most of the money didn't just go into sports. "

Yeap. nt

[Upton]

2. Your comment doesn't make any sense..

If most of the money wasn't put back into football, these programs would eventually lag and no longer be as valuable.

[El Supremo]

3. Wow!

At least a big hunk of these profits are spent on other non-football sports. What do you think pays for basketball, baseball, swimming, track? Certainly not their revenue from tickets or TV. But my point is that I wish academics would get a larger share.

[Upton]

4. Academics?

It says in your link UT had a revenue of some 109 million. Most of it from merchandise, TV, and ticket sales along with boosters. Those revenues would almost completely disappear were the Longhorns to turn into a version of MIT football...and who does that help?

Btw, basketball is profitable for some schools..

[El Supremo]

5. Go Engineers!!!!

[bluedigger]

6. Where's the money on the Left Coast?

I'm surprised not to see USC in the top 10. Would they have made it when Carroll was coach?

[El Supremo]

7. They don't show the pre-tax dollars. n/m

[caraher]

8. It would be a good thing if the money covered the expense of sports

At most Division I schools, athletics loses money, so the university subsidizes the sports:

Just 23 of 228 athletics departments at NCAA Division I public schools generated enough money on their own to cover their expenses in 2012.