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February 2014

The Wolverine: Covering University of Michigan Football and Sports

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ATHLETICS Inside Michigan C Michigan Football Program Valued At $685 Million ollege football and basketball programs are not bought and sold like professional franchises in the NFL, NBA, NHL and Major League Baseball, but that has not stopped a professor at Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus from trying to put a price tag on the value of college football programs throughout the country, and Michigan football would be worth quite a large sum — $685.5 million. According to the Wall Street Journal, ESTIMATED VALUE OF BIG TEN FOOTBALL PROGRAMS Rk. School 3. Michigan 4. Ohio State 11. Iowa 12. Nebraska 13. Wisconsin 14. Penn State 29. Michigan State 36. Minnesota 40. Northwestern 46. Indiana 48. Purdue 55. Illinois 64. Maryland 65. Rutgers Value $685.5 million $674.8 million $479.1 million $432.5 million $406.4 million $377.6 million $212.9 million $179.7 million $154.5 million $125.8 million $114.6 million $94.5 million $66.2 million $63.3 million U-M athletics director David Brandon oversees a football program that has been estimated to have the third-highest value of any collegiate football team in the nation. PHOTO BY LON HORWEDEL

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