20 Most Dominating College Sports Programs

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Business Insider crunches the numbers and Michigan makes the list:

#9 University of Michigan

2013 athletic department revenue: $143.5 million

Average Home Football Attendance: 111,592

Average Home Men's Basketball Attendance: 12,138

NCAA Championship Score: 3

Student Surveys on Athletics: 4.0 out of 5

"School spirit is as good as it gets anywhere. Football game days are the most fun days of the entire year. The varsity facilities are incredible across the board. A++ Overall. On the flip side the intramural facilities are unimpressive. Most gyms are pretty old and overdue for a renovation. I don't use them often, but when I do they get the job done and no more. The best thing I can say about them is that they are there."

 

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jmdblue

November 13th, 2014 at 1:17 PM ^

I would be embarrassed for my daughter if she'd written it.... She's 15. 

Stanford wins the Director's Cup (or whatever it's called) every year and doesn't make the top 20?.  UNC #3?  Above us, Notre Dame, Texas, and OSU.  That's some odd "number crunching". 

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jmdblue

November 13th, 2014 at 1:35 PM ^

then it's us, osu, Texas 'bama and fla.  Instead we get some truly random and bizarrely weighted compilation of "rich" (not necessarily profitable), successful, and student involvement (somehow).  I'm pretty sure our author could have found a way to make Pepperdine win.

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Muttley

November 13th, 2014 at 3:07 PM ^

Rank School Revenue
1 Texas $165.7 mm
2 Wisconsin $149.1 mm
3 Alabama $143.8 mm
4 Michigan $143.5 mm
5 Ohio State $139.6 mm
6 Florida $130.1 mm
7 Oklahoma $123.8 mm
8 LSU $117.5 mm
9 Tennessee $111.6 mm
10 Auburn $103.7 mm

Notre Dame is not required to report its athletic revenues as a private institution.  Nor is Stanford.

Wiscy sure jumped in these (2013) rankings. I'm wondering if there's a one-time donation in there. Or maybe these revenue figures have a random weirdness in them also.

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chatster

November 13th, 2014 at 4:25 PM ^

Syracuse often leads the nation in average attendance for men's basketball games, and they're usually in the NCAA Tournament field.

Granted, Syracuse has become a basketball/lacrosse school since their football program was destroyed during the “GERG-ian Era” (or “Error” for those of us who lived through it) of 2005-2008, but they’ve apparently discovered that by moving to the ACC, they can upgrade the part of their football program that involves corner kicks, strikers, yellow cards and goalkeepers.  Their men’s team was ranked first in the nation in the last NSCAA Coaches Poll.

Their football program is hurt by the lack of good high school football in New York and New England, besides having to play all of their home games indoors, except when they get a big-name opponent willing to play at MetLife Stadium. Moving to the ACC also gives them a few more attractive conference home football games, so they might not have to worry about too many more seasons where the basketball crowd at the Carrier Dome will be larger than the actual football crowd.

 

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