9 SEC programs ranked in the Top 20 most valuable college football teams
By Nick Cole
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We know that college football in the SEC is an extremely lucrative business.
So it should be no surprise that 11 of the league’s 14 teams showed up on a list of college football’s 50 more valuable teams.
According to a study done by a finance professor at Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus and featured by the Wall Street Journal, Ohio State is the most valuable football team in college football at $946.6 million.
The Buckeyes are followed by Texas, Michigan and Notre Dame on this list.
It gets very SEC heavy from there, with nine of the next 16 teams on the list belonging to the conference.
In total, there were 11 teams that made the Top 50 of the list.
Here’s where the SEC teams checked in on the rankings list, along with Ryan Brewer’s valuation of their financial worth (in millions):
5. Alabama ($694.9)
7. Florida ($670.9)
8. Georgia ($636.4)
9. LSU ($612.3)
13. Tennessee ($402)
14. South Carolina ($398.2)
16. Texas A&M ($359.1)
19. Auburn ($319.3)
20. Arkansas ($311.9)
32. Ole Miss ($216.2)
34. Kentucky ($208)
Nick Cole is a former print journalist with several years of experience covering the SEC. Born and raised in SEC country, he has taken in the game-day experience at all 14 stadiums.
