Ohio State-Notre Dame Draws 10.5M in Booming College Kickoff
A defensive struggle between two of college football’s most storied programs scared up the largest opening-night TV audience in five years, as ABC’s coverage of Saturday…
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Sporticast: Honey Deuce Index Soars, College Football Playoff Expands
On the latest Sporticast episode, hosts Scott Soshnick and Eben Novy-Williams discuss some of the biggest sports business stories of the week, including the business of…
Bad Boy Mowers Inks Deal With Pinstripe Bowl Amid Naming Rights Carousel
The Bad Boys are getting back in the college football bowl game business by joining forces with the Evil Empire. Bad Boy Mowers has inked a deal to become the…
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Why Athlete-Conference Revenue Sharing Needs an Actual Union
The lead up to the Big Ten Media Days featured a headline with some significant legal ramifications: a reported meeting between a conference commissioner Kevin Warren…
Fanatics, Alabama Ink Company’s Most Comprehensive College Deal
Fanatics has signed a wide-ranging partnership with the University of Alabama, the latest deal that covers the company’s rapid expansion into new businesses. In…
All Messed Up and Nowhere to Go: Why the Pac-12 Will Survive Its Brexit Moment
On Thursday morning, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that he was walking off the job, or shall be, just as soon as the Conservative Party has selected a…
College Football Playoff Expansion Helps Drive New Conference Chaos
The Big Ten dropped a bombshell on the college sports landscape last week when it announced USC and UCLA will be joining the conference in 2024. The B1G’s move to pick…
Big Ten’s USC-UCLA Coup Sweetens Pot for New TV Rights
In filching UCLA and USC from the Pac-12, the Big Ten Conference has detonated an aerosol bomb in the heart of the Power Five superstructure, an act of gleeful…
USC, UCLA Big Ten Move Creates Super Conference Rival to SEC
The SEC’s reign as the lone ‘Super Conference,’ in college athletics may be over before it even began. Pac-12 powerhouses USC and UCLA, longtime conference…
Learfield’s Bleacher Seat Battle Offers Front Row View of Evolving College Industry
Any fan who’s sat at a college football game is likely familiar with the bleacher seat. The often cold (hello, Big Ten), or frequently quite hot (looking at you, SEC)…
SEC, Big Ten Pandemic Policies Create Financial Gap: Data Viz
Last Wednesday, the University of Georgia, which took more than three months to release its expense and revenue report for FY 2021 despite repeated inquiries from…
Sports Aims to Devour Upfront Market as TV Preps for Streaming Shift
For the better part of the last 20 years, Jimmy Kimmel has been the voice of sanity during the upfronts. In a week marked by the selective interpretation of ratings data…
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