The upcoming college football season is in jeopardy due to Covid-19 (novel coronavirus). If the 2020-2021 college football season is cancelled, how much revenue and profit will be lost by the 64 universities which comprise the membership of the Power 5 Conferences plus independent Notre Dame ?
An article from March 3, 2019 “Richest and Poorest Power Five College Football Programs” offers some guidance.
The season won’t be cancelled.
The link is not connecting to the article. I will list all 65 teams in order of revenue generated.
This link seems to work:
I hope so…do you have any details? If college football doesn’t go this year, we may see many colleges discontinue supporting any number of teams.
There is some precedent, interestingly. In the 1990s a measles outbreak forced several NCAA basketball tournaments to be completed without any fans. The teams were still allowed to play each other, but without any fans in the stands.
Perhaps a similar solution will be found for the upcoming football season? This would preserve most of the TV revenues, but minimize the potential spread of coronavirus?
Here are some of the options being considered for Power 5 football…the article is specific to the Big 12, but I suspect on all Power 5 lists:
And more:
This explains why the head football coach gets a reserved parking space:
Football Revenue for fiscal year July 1, 2019 to June 30, 2019 (reflects 2018 football season):
Univ. of Texas-Austin Revenue = $156.1 million / Profit = $112.9 million
Georgia $123.1million revenue / $73.9 million profit
Michigan $122.3m / $74.9m
Notre Dame $115.5m / $65.3m
Ohio State $115.1m / $55m
Penn State $100.1m / $51.6m
Auburn $95.2m / $47.4m
Oklahoma $94.8m / $51.3m
Alabama $94.6m / $69.7m
Nebraska $94.3m / $59.8m
LSU $92m / $56.7m
Tennessee $91m / $55.8m
Wisconsin $89.9m / $58.8m
Univ. of Florida $84.8m / $45.7m
Univ. of Washington $84m / $43.5m
Iowa $81m / $44.2m
Arkansas $76.5m / $33.3m
Michigan State $75.6m / $41.6m
Texas A&M $73.5m / $30.7m
Univ. of Oregon $72.1m / $39.1m
Fla State Univ. (FSU) $68.9m in revenue / $68.9m in expenses = zero (0) profit
Texas Christian Univ. (TCU) $65.4m / $24.5m
Univ. South Carolina $65m / $28.8m
Northwestern University $63.2m / $31.1m
Univ. of Utah $63.2m / $33.9m
Minnesota $63m / $30.6m
Clemson $61.4m / just $5.8m profit
Illinois $58.2m / $33.8m
Univ. of Miami $56.3m revenue / $56.3m expenses = zero (0) profit
Virginia Tech $56.2m / $26.1m
Shows that you don’t have to be good to be rich, just hang around with the right folks. 
The NCAA laid out a 6 week return to sports yesterday. it will make it possible for less impacted states (read - the biggest football areas) to get back to business. Interestingly, Nick Saban can’t participate the first 2 weeks because he’s over 65!
UT. ? My dad was head of the UT Men’s Athletic Council for many years. I am very glad he is not anymore.
@Publisher Unless you’re Rutgers:
FY2017: $19.5M revenue; $27.7M expenses ($8.2M deficit)
FY2018: $11.77M revenue; $26.87M ($15.1M deficit)
Continuing with the list of 65 = Power 5 Conference Schools plus Notre Dame:
Purdue $54.8m / $28.9m
Indiana $52.6m / $28.3m
Oklahoma State $52.2m / $27.9m
Iowa State $51.9m / $24.9m
Texas Tech $51.1m / $30.3m
USC $50m / $17.9m
Univ. of Mississippi (Ole Miss) $48.2m / $16m
Louisville $47.3m / just $3.2m (men’s basketball profit = $23.6m)
Maryland $46.6m / $18.1m
Kansas State $46.2m / $25.7m (credit to Coach Bill Snyder)
NC State $45.7m / $22.4m)
Baylor $45.6m / $14.6m
Washington State (WSU) $45.3m / $23.2m
Stanford $44.5m / $14m
Syracuse $43.8m / $15.8m (men’s basketball made $19.8m profit)
Colorado $43.5m / $13.9m
Univ. of Arizona $43.3m / $20.7m
Georgia Tech $42.6m / $12.9m
Kentucky $41.4 million revenue / profit not disclosed (made $12.8m last yr.)
UCLA $41.3m / $5.8m
Here is the link to NCAA’s “Core Principles of Resocialization of Collegiate Sport”. Nice name ?
https://www.ncaa.org/sport-science-institute/core-principles-resocialization-collegiate-sport
List Continued #51 through #65:
Duke $40.3m / $11.5m (certainly men’s basketball made a larger profit)
UNC $39.3m / $16.2m (UNC men’s BB made profit of $16.5m)
Pittsburgh $39.2m / $7.4m
Arizona State Univ. (ASU) $39m / $12.8m
Missouri $38.5m / $14.9m
Univ. of Kansas $38.1m / $12.8m
Mississippi State $38m / $14m
Oregon State $35.8m / $12.1m
Univ. of Virginia $33.7m / $7.4m
UCal-Berkeley (California) $33.5m / $5.7m
Boston College $32.3m / $7.4m
Vanderbilt $32.1m / just $2.5m profit
Wake Forest Univ. (WFU) $26.7m / $5.2m
Rutgers $26,698,913 listed for both revenue & expenses = zero (0) profit
West Virginia Univ. (WVU) $24.7m / just $2.4m profit negated by loss of $2.3m in men’s basketball.
The Power Five Conferences are:
ACC (Atlantic Coast Conference)
Big Ten–just one private school = Northwestern University
Big 12
PAC 12
SEC (Southeastern Conference)–just one private school = Vanderbilt University
So what I don’t understand in the document is why the transition to Phase Three can happen two weeks after the transition to Phase Two. Maybe I’m misunderstanding, but it looks like there needs to be a two week decline in COVID-19 cases and a two week decline in positive test results to go to Phase Two. Then planners are allowed to wait two weeks and see if there’s a rebound, and if not, go to Phase Three.
But there won’t be a rebound in cases in two weeks; if there’s going to be a bad effect, it won’t happen that soon.
Only 11 of the 65 listed schools are private universities:
Notre Dame–8,600 undergrads
Northwestern–8,100 undergrads
Univ. of Miami–11,000 undergrads
USC–almost 20,000 undergrads
Baylor–14,000 undergrads
Stanford–7,100 undergrads
Syracuse–15,000 undergrads
Duke–6,700 undergrads
Boston College–9,400 undergrads
Vanderbilt–6,800 undergrads
Wake Forest University–5,200 undergrads
8 of the 11 are mid-size schools. All, regardless of size, exhibit big school spirit.
D1 requires schools to sponsor 14 teams. Many schools only sponsor 18 so they don’t have a lot of room to start dropping varsity programs.
It’s actually 16 required sports. Schools already asked NCAA to reduce this number but were denied a blanket waiver to do so, but requests can be made on a case-by-case basis. https://www.usnews.com/news/sports/articles/2020-04-24/ncaa-denies-request-to-drop-division-i-sport-minimum
Expect this issue to resurface if football season doesn’t happen.
Regardless, most schools are not NCAA DI, so lots of room to drop sports if athletic money declines precipitously…which it will if football doesn’t go whether at NCAA, NAIA or JUCO.