ATHLETICS
Inside Michigan
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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