Take the two Little Rock home games and move them to Fayetteville and the Razorbacks move to #5 easily.
The financial magazine Forbes has put together it’s latest list of college football’s most valuable teams and — not surprisingly — the SEC is well represented.
The magazine used a four-pronged scoring system based on:
1. The value of a team to its university
2. The value to its athletic department
3. The value to its conference
and 4. The value to its surrounding community
Like any list of this type, there’s plenty of room or debate (which is exactly what the good folks at Forbes want in the first place).
This year’s list? Here goes…
1. Texas — current value: $129 million
2. Notre Dame — $112 million
3. Penn State — $100 million (here’s guessing that’s drop a bit next year)
4. LSU — $96 million
5. Michigan — $94 million
6. Alabama — $93 million
7. Georgia — $90 million
8. Arkansas — $89 million
9. Auburn — $88 million
10. Oklahoma — $87 million
11. Florida — $86 million
12. Tennessee — $82 million
13. Ohio State — $78 million
14. Nebraska — $77 million
15. Wisconsin — $67 million
16. South Carolina — $64 million
17. Texas A&M — $63 million
18. Southern Cal — $62 million
19. Michigan State — $59 million
20. Iowa — $48 million
Five of the top nine, seven of the top 12, and nine of the top 17 most “valuable” college football programs call the SEC home. Impressive.
