Sports Illustrated: Desirability Ratings: Measuring Each Power 5 School’s Conference Value (#39. Minnesota)

[BleedGopher]

per SI:

The categories:

• Football ranking: This is a five-year average of the Sagarin ratings from 2017 to ’21, using only the current and future Power 5 schools. Sagarin’s numbers are by no means infallible, but they do rank everyone and have been in popular use for a long time, so they’ll serve the purpose here. The top school: Alabama, to the surprise of no one. The worst: Kansas, also the surprise of no one.
• Academic ranking: This is simply the most recent U.S. News & World Report’s national universities rankings, released in 2021. University presidents like to talk about this metric. So do TV execs, when they’re trying to justify moving UCLA into the same league with Michigan and Northwestern. The top academic school among the Power 5: Stanford. The school at the bottom: West Virginia.
• All-sports ranking: This is the Learfield Directors’ Cup Division I standings for the 2021–22 academic year, which rates performance in 19 sports, with the mandatory sport counters being baseball, men’s and women’s basketball and women’s volleyball. The top overall athletic program: Texas, for the second straight year. The laggard of the Power 5: Cincinnati, which didn’t have much to back up that breakthrough football season.
• Football attendance: This was an average of home-game attendance (via NCAA data) from 2017 to ’21, tossing out ’20 since that season was heavily impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. How big is your stadium? And how many fans do you bring to it for home games? Size matters. The top draw: Michigan in the Big House. Fewest butts in seats: Duke, which last year averaged a sad 15,424 fans per home game.
• Broadcast viewership: This was the total number of football games that drew one million or more viewers: from 2017 to ’21, also tossing out ’20 due to the wide disparity in number of games played across the country. Citing media markets can be misleading; Rutgers being in the New York market doesn’t mean the Scarlet Knights are delivering an audience. The number of games watched by a million or more people better illustrates which teams are actually bringing eyeballs to screens. The program with the most games that reached the one million benchmark: Oklahoma. The programs few have tuned in to watch in recent years: Oregon State, Rutgers and Duke.,

35.	(tie) Virginia Tech	41	33(t)	32	21(t)	49(t)	176
35.	(tie) Indiana	42	30(t)	57	48	36(t)	176
35.	(tie) Utah	17	41(t)	42	42	34	176
38.	TCU	22	38(t)	38	49	31	178
39.	Minnesota	28	30(t)	27	45	49(t)	179
40.	Kentucky	26	52(t)	9	32	61(t)	180

Ranking all 69 Power 5 schools by college sports value - Sports Illustrated

If the college sports started over, who would be most coveted? We break it down with a formula.

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Go Gophers!!

 

[Gophers7NatTitlesBadgers0]

I see Indiana brings in better tv ratings. But is that because Indiana fans are watching or because the games are against MI, OSU, PSU, and MSU and their fans are watching!

 

[25mkg]

per SI:

The categories:

• Football ranking: This is a five-year average of the Sagarin ratings from 2017 to ’21, using only the current and future Power 5 schools. Sagarin’s numbers are by no means infallible, but they do rank everyone and have been in popular use for a long time, so they’ll serve the purpose here. The top school: Alabama, to the surprise of no one. The worst: Kansas, also the surprise of no one.
• Academic ranking: This is simply the most recent U.S. News & World Report’s national universities rankings, released in 2021. University presidents like to talk about this metric. So do TV execs, when they’re trying to justify moving UCLA into the same league with Michigan and Northwestern. The top academic school among the Power 5: Stanford. The school at the bottom: West Virginia.
• All-sports ranking: This is the Learfield Directors’ Cup Division I standings for the 2021–22 academic year, which rates performance in 19 sports, with the mandatory sport counters being baseball, men’s and women’s basketball and women’s volleyball. The top overall athletic program: Texas, for the second straight year. The laggard of the Power 5: Cincinnati, which didn’t have much to back up that breakthrough football season.
• Football attendance: This was an average of home-game attendance (via NCAA data) from 2017 to ’21, tossing out ’20 since that season was heavily impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. How big is your stadium? And how many fans do you bring to it for home games? Size matters. The top draw: Michigan in the Big House. Fewest butts in seats: Duke, which last year averaged a sad 15,424 fans per home game.
• Broadcast viewership: This was the total number of football games that drew one million or more viewers: from 2017 to ’21, also tossing out ’20 due to the wide disparity in number of games played across the country. Citing media markets can be misleading; Rutgers being in the New York market doesn’t mean the Scarlet Knights are delivering an audience. The number of games watched by a million or more people better illustrates which teams are actually bringing eyeballs to screens. The program with the most games that reached the one million benchmark: Oklahoma. The programs few have tuned in to watch in recent years: Oregon State, Rutgers and Duke.,

35.	(tie) Virginia Tech	41	33(t)	32	21(t)	49(t)	176
35.	(tie) Indiana	42	30(t)	57	48	36(t)	176
35.	(tie) Utah	17	41(t)	42	42	34	176
38.	TCU	22	38(t)	38	49	31	178
39.	Minnesota	28	30(t)	27	45	49(t)	179
40.	Kentucky	26	52(t)	9	32	61(t)	180

Ranking all 69 Power 5 schools by college sports value - Sports Illustrated

If the college sports started over, who would be most coveted? We break it down with a formula.

www.si.com

Go Gophers!!

By my math, Indiana has a total score of 213.

 

[Some guy]

I see Indiana brings in better tv ratings. But is that because Indiana fans are watching or because the games are against MI, OSU, PSU, and MSU and their fans are watching!

Correct. Playing Ohio state, Michigan, and penn state every year juices your tv ratings

 

[Plato]

This is another ranking derived by adding data that is often opinion, eg academic rankings, data of questionable significance, eg all sports, to make a chart to amuse or enrage fans during the downtime before the actual season starts.
It has no meaning in the real world.

 

[Unregistered User]

They lost me when they included USNWR rankings.

Totally useless.

 

[GopherWeatherGuy]

By my math, Indiana has a total score of 213.

They do, and are ranked behind Minnesota. The chart posted here looks different than the one in the article.

 

[4four4]

What about market population? Did they use that at all?

 

[Gophers7NatTitlesBadgers0]

Correct. Playing Ohio state, Michigan, and penn state every year juices your tv ratings

Should be a way to factor that I would say.

 

[Some guy]

Should be a way to factor that I would say.

It’s hard to measure exactly.


I personally think size of alumni base is probably important too (not factored)