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1. Ohio State
2. Alabama
3. Notre Dame
4. Auburn
5. LSU
The numbers grow every year: 35 bowl games, 70 teams - the morphing of what
was once a New Year's
Day tradition into one that kicks off in mid-December and finishes closer to
Martin Luther King Day than
Jan. 1.
And if those bowl-season stats seem bloated, try this: Ohio State and
Alabama each spend more than $31
million a year to run their football programs, while nine other teams
closing out the season at one of those
35 bowl games spend $20 million plus.
The cheapest bowl-bound program? That would be Troy, winner of the New
Orleans Bowl on the first
postseason weekend, at just a shade over $5 million. That's nearly $23
million less than they spend an hour
away at top-ranked Auburn, where the Tigers are playing for the national
title this season. Auburn's
opponent in the BCS game, Oregon, spends $18 million - 16th among the bowl-
bound schools.
The statistics come from the Department of Education, which has required
universities to submit the
amount they spend on sports since 2000 as part of the Equity in Athletics
Disclosure Act. With that
information, the Equity in Athletics Data Analysis Cutting Tool was created.
And while the database comes
with disclaimers and caveats stating that there are no hard-and-fast
guidelines as to what schools count
under the term "expenses" and "revenue," these are the numbers they report
to the federal government.
After OSU ($31.7 million) and 'Bama ($31.1 million), the rest of top five
biggest spenders include Notre
Dame, Auburn and LSU, according to the database. Most schools' figures were
for the fiscal year that ended
June 30.
Broken down on a per-student basis, the Irish spend the most, the database
says. Their trip to the Sun Bowl
is coming at a price of $3,531 for each of Notre Dame's 8,351 undergraduates
- an overall budget of $29.4
million - while TCU spends $2,822 per student to run its Rose Bowl-bound
football program. | z*****a 发帖数: 3809 | 2 6 SEC teams in the top 10. TCU really spends a lot of money for a small
school in a non-AQ conference.
Top 10 spenders among bowl-bound teams:
1. Ohio State, $31,763,036
2. Alabama, $31,118,134
3. Notre Dame, $29,490,788
4. Auburn, $27,911,713
5. LSU, $25,566,520
6. Florida, $24,457,557
7. South Carolina, $22,794,211
8. Wisconsin, $22,041,491
9. Arkansas $22,005,014
10. TCU $20,609,361
Notes:
• University of Texas spent $25.1 million but did not make a bowl game
this season. | W********s 发帖数: 2256 | 3 成绩和花费基本上是正相关。
【在 z*****a 的大作中提到】 : 6 SEC teams in the top 10. TCU really spends a lot of money for a small : school in a non-AQ conference. : Top 10 spenders among bowl-bound teams: : 1. Ohio State, $31,763,036 : 2. Alabama, $31,118,134 : 3. Notre Dame, $29,490,788 : 4. Auburn, $27,911,713 : 5. LSU, $25,566,520 : 6. Florida, $24,457,557 : 7. South Carolina, $22,794,211
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