WSJ valuations

Looks like FSU has fallen 5 spots in 5 years or so in the WSJ valuations.


2019

https://accfootballrx.blogspot.com/2019/02/2019-wsj-valuations.html

26	Clemson	72,218,581	298,051,865
27	Florida State	94,597,591	289,776,745
28	Virginia Tech	65,851,157	278,315,358

OBSERVATIONS and CONCLUSIONS:

The SEC and Big Ten have the most valuable collection of schools. However, we need to keep one thing in mind: it's the schools that make the conferences valuable, not the other way around.

The average value of the P5 teams is $349,531,468. There are only 20 schools above the average value, but 48 schools below the average. That's because the average is skewed by a few very high value teams.

Of those top 20 teams, 9 are in the SEC, 7 are in the Big Ten, 2 are in the Big XII, 1 is in the Pac-12, and the other is Notre Dame. The highest-valued ACC teams - Clemson, Florida State and Virginia Tech - are ranked 26 through 28.

The ACC average value is dragged down by 3 of the least-valuable teams in the P5 - BC, Wake Forest and Duke.

The average revenue is $74,830,548, and there is one ACC school in the top 20 there - Florida State. It's also the only ACC team above the P5 average in terms of revenue.

BOTTOM LINE: Right now SEC and Big Ten teams both benefit from conference cable network revenue. The ACC Network needs to make comparable revenue so that high-value teams like FSU, Clemson and VT can continue to compete at the highest levels.




2013/2014

https://accfootballrx.blogspot.com/2014/01/most-valuable-brands.html

Most valuable brands

From Wall Street Journal online:  There are 8 ACC teams (plus Notre Dame) in the 50 most valuable college football teams.

#  Team/Brand  Est. Value 
2. Notre Dame $811.5M 
...9 SEC and  6 B1G teans... 
22. Florida St $277.9M 
25. Clemson $242.6M 
... 
31. Va Tech $203.7M 
33. Ga Tech  $184.9M 
35. Miami  $180.8M 
... 
44. N Carolina $131.8M 
47. N C State  $119.3M 
49. Syracuse  $105.7M 

SOURCE: Wall Street Journal article - LINK.

From a football-only point-of-view it's clear to everyone that FSU, Clemson, VT, GT and Miami are the 5 most valuable properties in the ACC.  Of course, when you factor in basketball brand as well the order shifts in favor of UNC and Louisville, but even without that factor you have to be somewhat impressed that Syracuse of all teams made its way into the top 50 for football brand value.

 

BOTTOM LINE:

The SEC has 9 teams in the top 21, but the ACC has only 8 teams in the top 50.  To change this, ACC teams (other than just the top 8) will need to win non-conference games.  This is a zero-sum game; for the overall value of the ACC to rise in the rankings, teams will have to jump over those from other conferences. Hopefully playing more Big Ten teams (instead of constantly banging up against the SEC) will give those mid-level ACC teams a realistic chance to do that.