The Top 20
Forbes announced its Top 20 most valuable college football teams: Texas, Notre Dame, Penn State, Nebraska, Alabama, Florida, LSU, Ohio State, Georgia, Oklahoma, Michigan, South Carolina, Tennessee, Auburn, USC, Michigan State, Arkansas, Texas A&M, Wisconsin, and Oklahoma State.
The criteria is after the jump.
The ranking of College Football's Most Valuable teams is based on what the football program contributes to four important beneficiaries (in order of weight): (1) their university (money generated by football that goes to the institution for academic purposes, including scholarship payments for football players); (2) athletic department (the net profit generated by the football program retained by the department); (3) conference (the distribution of bowl game revenue); (4) and local communities (estimated incremental spending by visitors to the county that's attributable to the program).
USCRipsIt had this BEFORE Christmas. Way to keep up, Wolf.