Notre Dame is only 8,000 undergrad and fan base across the country as well. It's also about the interest of the alumni and desire to come back and support the school. ACC Schools on average do not really support their football programs.

Going there in September for the Ole Miss game.

@@jennlalli5481well I think I has to do with the affiliation with the Catholic Church along with the football program still independent and the older wealthy alumni still like it that way and still donate a ton of money to Norte Dame football.

@@jennlalli5481the difference with Notre Dame is they have a fan base of nearly every practicing Catholic in the country , it’s an apples to oranges comparison

I think Purdue faces the same problem. Their stadium is really small and looks like it needs an expansion, but they can't even fill it up right now!

Never been there but looks great with the grass hill. The thing about “rating” stadiums, most of these lists are very deceiving. These pundits are NOT rating the physical structure or amenities. Their ratings are solely based on the history and crowd. I’ve been to several “big time” stadiums and, yes, the atmosphere is amazing. But it is disingenuous to rate a stadium based on the crowd size. Some of these iconic, top-10 stadiums are dumps. Glorified erector sets. Many pre-date WW II.

But the bottom 90% still expect a free check from the playoff revenue for sacrificing their players. That's about to end very soon because the B1G and SEC are about to cut out all the dead weight from outside of their conferences.

Don't forget, bowl games used to matter. Now not even the good players care.

Not to mention the college realignment mess. Pretty sonn we'll have a massive elite conference with Alabama, Michigan, Notre Dame, Texas, abd all the other top teams.

@@rockoorbe2002Alabama won’t ever leave the SEC 😂

@@rockoorbe2002and Notre dame will never join a football conference… they make way too much money as an independent and they can decide who they play every single season instead of a conference telling them who a majority of their games are each season. You seem uneducated on this

Also helps with the SEC Academic look...

@@brettrobinson2901I mean Georgia and Florida are good schools. But yeah the rest of the SEC are dumb as rocks.

@@brettrobinson2901SEC has several strong academic schools in addition to Vandy - Florida, Texas, Georgia, etc. Every conference has at least some bottom tier academic institutions.

@@fitzwilliamdarcy5263 Georgia? 😂😂

@@Beachgirl1🤣🤣let em have his fun

True, NIL is killing Wake Forest.

And 80 plus other schools. NIL ruined NCAA football.

Agreed. He has done an amazing job! I could have thought of some other schools with only 8 to choose from than Wake.

But men’s basketball is like the Bama of that sport.

​@@FrenchUncleLou Izz snot!.....😷

Support them 😁 Those kids work hard and deserve it!!

To be fair, a significant percentage of P5 teams have already won a national championship at some point, and ALOT of teams claim national championships, even if they are bullshit.

They’ll improve heavily this season, and Im a Michigan fan lol. New HC has proven he can do a lot with 3 star talent, and thats what they recruit right now

Go blue

Nooo, they just got a good coach and QB. They won't be elite but thelyh be alright.

Haha. I heard it too as it's a new thing DG added. It adds drama to what would otherwise be quiet talking over pictures. ESPN pioneered this concept as you'll never see a replay on ESPN without background music.

Great music 🎶😁

I love it

Just sitting here with my fingers crossed. Go Hoos!

And they all should drop football and just focus on the other sports, especially if football is brining in less money then it is making them. Would love to really see what a football program at say Indiana costs v what it brings in. My guess is it either breaks even or runs a deficit.

​@scotttild I'm a diehard IU fan. The team actually brings in about 10 mil profit a year. Not even close to the good teams. But it does make a profit. Also with the new coach season tickets are up, the portal did the team well. And this is the easiest schedule IUFB has had in decades. I expect a 7 or 8 win season this year.

​@@scotttild No team is going to drop football because most former P-5 (since it doesn't exist anymore) schools fund their entire athletic departments from the revenue their football programs generate. Basketball only generates about 10% of what football does.

IU football brings in 2x the revenue than does its basketball. It’s simple economics folks. The number of fans at a football game, parking, concessions is more than even a packed basketball game can generate. Exponentially more. Does anybody want to take a guess how much revenue IU brings in annually to its entire athletic department? $167 million. That’s 13th in the nation. It’s also why it could pay Tom Allen $15 million to accept his pink slip. The school isn’t poor.

Vandy a good basketball school as well...

You got 3 right.

dude watched the first three teams and then put this comment you're a bum💀

And yet this list is for 2024, Rock MF Chalk

​@@chasefrench1864 The middle name of the basketball coach at Kansas is Feels-him.

@@chasefrench1864 I say that as a KU fan glad to be past those miserable Weis, Beaty, & Les Miles teams

Not as irrelevant as ucla.

Cal is still the number one public university in the country, so their not completely irrelevant like some of these schools.

@@georgelucas2571 In football? Cal does not care and never will. Cal just rests on its Nobel lauretes.

The middle of the pack programs won't go for it. There's no way that an Auburn, A&M, Ole Miss, get rid of Vandy, Arkansas, Miss State. With the addition of Clemson and Florida State, who becomes the bottom-feeders if those programs are kicked out? Auburn, A&M, Ole Miss, Missouri

They still need the cupcakes to play.

I don't see anyone getting kick out of their conferences, but I can see the valuable football programs pulling out of their conferences to create a College Football Super League so they can maximize their value. The universities can fund all their non-revenue generating sports because it's not the football player's obligation to do it.

The next thing to hit the 2 superconferences (Big and SEC) will be disproportionate revenue sharing. Bank on it. The big programs will want a bigger piece of the pie and the other programs will take a lesser share and still stay because….well, it will be more than they can get anywhere else. That will be the next phase long before anybody gets kicked out. Face it: college football with the huge NIL deals and unlimited transfer rules (aka free agency) is NOT college football anymore. It’s semi-pro ball. A developmental league. Anybody that says differently isn’t paying attention.

Weren't those teams irrelevant 35 years ago?

Very much agreed and UVA is just fine also.

OSU's former OC LOL

😂

They have football bottom feeders, like every conference does, but most of them are large state schools with large alumni and large loyal fan bases. Plus all of them have good academics and large research programs, which is way more profitable then sports. So they are still somewhat valuable for the conference.

If anyone uses this thing called Google, you can look up the top 25 revenue earning athletics departments in the country. 10 schools from the Big 10 and 15 from the SEC make up that list. Two are on the irrelevant list. Neither is dropping football with that much cash that they bring in.

Rutgers is on the rise

They just beat Miami in their bowl game. So what does that say about them?

Looks like the ‘Hoos are the visiting team

Depressed Ginger is a Syracuse fan I think. He's suggested they host the NBA all star game in their arena for some dumbass reason.

Future is looking bright for Northwestern. Upgrade in facilities should at least keep them respectful record.

Eh depends. NW has a good year everyone once in a while, but they *played* in the worst division in all of college football. With the big10 going divisionless now, it will hurt them and Iowa tremendously

Compared to the teams in the video, Northwestern is a powerhouse! They are not in the same category of an Ohio State or Michigan, for sure. But in the last 10 years they have won the Big Ten West two times and have been in six bowl games (going 5-1). And finished the season ranked in the AP and Coaches poll four times. Not as bad as one would think. And with a new stadium and facilities on the way, it could get better.

NW was just in the B10 championship in 2018 & 2020. Pls do more research before commenting lol.

Yeah, I think UVA is #4 in the Learfield rankings.

@@cheerjimfootball has always been a step child for the UVA administration

Auburn, Georgia and the rest of the SEC thrive on cream-puff teams like UMass. Cream-puff games like these to me have turned college football into a joke when Power 5 teams play against schools such as the East Dakota School of Belly-Button Lint Removal.

The question should be why are Georgia and auburn allowed to play umass

That should be illegal.

We've had some legendary bad leadership. I don't disagree, we are lucky to not be on this list and it's due to our previous AD being an absolute moron with Herm Edwards. Hopefully the Big-12 jump is good with Dillingham at the helm.

😂

I too am an IU alum and fan. However, we lost the head to head game against OSU by a touchdown that year and don’t think we should have been in the championship game. It was a COVID year. It was just a weird season. Allen turned out to be a dud. He stunk the next three years. His defense, supposedly his hallmark, got worse. I do have more confidence in Cignetti. IU is 13th in the nation in athletic revenue. No reason for it to be so bad if it just took the sport of football seriously. Think about how Allen got the job. They did no national search. Fred Glass walked down the hall after he fired Kevin Wilson and offered the job on the spot to Allen. What functioning athletic department does that? IU has had a revolving door of poor administration. It’s time we pony up to stay in the big boy sandbox. The Cignetti hire does seem like a positive step IU never did in the past.

Decent teams in the late 80s and Anthony Thompson was Heisman runner up in 1989.

@jamesfields2916 Yes, forgot Anthony Thompson. He was tremendous.

Speaking of irrelevance….IU has been irrelevant in basketball for 25 years. It’s terrible and running on fumes from the past. The future of college sports is football. That’s the entire driver for media deals and realignments. IU went out and got Curt Cignetti and is upping its NIL game. Dump the money in football to try and improve the future. All schools in the Power2 (Big and SEC) need to invest in football or be on the outside looking in. Basketball is a lost cause now. Terrible coaching and the program is inept. Face it: if you invest in football and are serious, you can get an ROI. UK did it and they are in the SEC. They now have 8-10 win seasons. Woody and his circus is a lost cause.

@sullivan-pughvideoproducti5531 Really an interesting post. Hadn't thought of current issues in that way. I have to admit one of my favorite things to read is Dakich posts, especially on IU hoops (have to admit am Buckeye fan). He kind of speaks his mind on that....and everything else too. Super interesting post.

@@jeffmerklin2022 I’m born and raised in Indiana. IU basically did nothing for its football program. Everything was overshadowed by Knight. They barely gave any support to Mallory in the way of investment. The administration couldn’t envision a future where football is driving the boat. Now we are here and those schools that took football seriously are the big players in college athletics. It’s what drives everything now. Basketball is merely riding shotgun. When it comes to media deals, conference affiliations and realignments, nobody (NOBODY) is adding schools for their basketball programs. It’s why the Big Ten added schools like Washington, Oregon and USC. Millions of eyeballs in those markets watching football on Saturdays. I’ve always said that dumping all your efforts into basketball is not the right investment.

They better start taking football seriously or they may find themselves on the outside of the Super League looking in, when the valuable football programs leave their conferences to maximize their value.

...and yet you listen to his every word.

We’ll all be wishing upon a star that the decrepit old cigar smoker, Woody, will get them to a sweet 16. I’d try to improve football to decency before spending one dime on that trainwreck basketball program. Terrible coaching hires have doomed that mess.

Props WHEN he gets the Silver Play Button

Same thing was going on when the Pac 12 was folding everyone picking on schools.

The ACC is about to implode to never be seen again.

Name a Big 12 team more irrelevant than the ACC teams on this list. Colorado is far from irrelevant lmao and I’m not a CU fan.

@@samcoppock3370 I can only see one that is...how is that for you? Utah, with a possible asterisk to Ariz if they can ever get consistent like years ago. Take out OU and Tex games and even Duke gets the same or better ratings and that's for football. There is a reason nobody wanted the Big XII leftovers and there is a reason that nobody truly knows just whom the Big I / SEC will take. The only no brainers are likely UVA and UNC. UVA ratings flat out suck but everyone wants to have a team there so that they will own that state and get the premium dollars for their network. TV networks get a premium (around .40 cents more per month) if a team is in that state. That is why UNC is likewise so valuable. FSU is pushing the threshold so that they can hopefully land one of the spots left. First out hopefully beats others to the punch line and hopefully takes some control out of the Big two hands..."hey we are here and available type of mindset". UNC is the prize. UM, Louisville, NC State, GT, VPI, Clempsum, are all at the top of the Big XII with viewership and Cal and Stanford not far behind and there is a reason they stuck their noses up at the Big XII. Leave your bias out and just think logically. Why would they turn down Big XII even when it is imploding? Why be in limbo while praying for a life line when the Big XII came calling??? Colorado was an exception in year one of Deon...but what about without him? Would they drop below Houston? LOL That is the Big XII's problem. And it is why you should not be surprised if the remaining ACC teams just reform with additions rather than joining the Big XII. Just a heads up for you.

​@@samcoppock3370 all of them

The only big 12 team I would give you is maybe Kansas and they are lightyears ahead of most of these schools at this moment in time… also the big 12 actually fills their stadiums with actual fans

@@gagebyers1057 exactly! and KU is far from irrelevant. They’ve been relevant for the wrong reasons for 13 years and now they’re relevant for such a great turnaround!

Not irrelevant.

Believe they are in Atlanta. :)

Guess you must be 10 or less? They were in the 2014 Orange Bowl, the 2009 Orange Bowl, Won the 1990 Natl' Title, Are in the top 20 for total bowl wins, etc. Are you really that clueless?

Go ask miami or UNC or UCF IF THE JACKETS ARE ANY GOOD

That's not really true. Missouri just beat OSU in the cotton bowl. Are they irrelevant? Last year SC dashed two playoff potential teams. Are they irrelevant? Tennessee is right there when it comes to trying to beat these great SEC teams, right alongside Ole Miss as well.

​@@Sean-ku8pc Any bowl game that's not a playoff game is an exhibition match.

I like Boston College too. I go to a Jesuit university (Georgetown) so I root for Georgetown basketball and Boston College football. I dig Georgetown football too but we are FCS ass right now

Curt cignetti

Two Big 10 West Championships. More than Illinois, Minnesota, Nebraska, and Purdue combined.