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The Most Valuable NCAA Teams

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Source: Statista

College sports are big business, and especially college football teams are bringing in huge revenue and profit streams despite technically consisting of amateur athletes. Analysis by Forbes shows that the most valuable among all NCAA football teams are the Texas A&M Aggies, which have an annual average revenue of US$148 million, followed by the University of Texas team, the Longhorns, with an annual average revenue of US$133 million.

The NCAA basketball teams play in a different league when it comes to profits and make much less. Yet, the most valuable basketball team, Louisville, turned a bigger annual average profit than some NBA teams, namely the Cleveland Cavaliers, Oklahoma City Thunder or the Charlotte Hornets, according to Forbes’ analysis of NCAA basketball.

The high profits generated by NCAA teams have come back into the spotlight recently as a result of the nationwide admissions scandal, which used university athletic programs, among other tactics, to illegitimately place students in elite colleges and universities. Critics of the programs argue that smaller, less profitable college sports programs were used to help rich and mainly white students gain access to elite universities, while profitable programs like football and basketball are propped up by minority amateur athletes who are unpaid.

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The Most Lucrative Games in eSports

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In May 2018, Epic Games, maker of the immensely popular cross-platform multiplayer game Fortnite, announced that it would provide $100 million in prize money for Fortnite competitions to be held throughout the remainder of 2018 and 2019.

This unprecedented prize pool will put Fortnite among the most lucrative esports games, with only one game having had more prize money awarded during its lifetime as a competitive game so far. According to Esports Earnings, a website tracking esports prize money, Dota 2, a game that has been around for years, has drawn total prize money of $177 million, edging out second-placed Counter-Strike: Global Offensive by a huge margin.

In recent years, esports events have become bigger and bigger, with the largest tournaments awarding prize money on par with the largest “real world” sporting events. The reason for this trend is rather simple: with millions of video game enthusiasts watching, esports events draw advertising dollars and sponsorship deals the same way other sporting events do. And just as in professional sports, an increase in sponsorship and TV/advertising money is reflected in the potential earnings of the players/athletes.

eSports Infographic