In Reply to: Ucla doesn't stack up well v the other b10+8 teams... posted by ClockBlocker on July 18, 2025 at 16:24:05
Elite Ucla is an afterthought in CFB.
Our Eliteness requires that we eschew all things practical, commercial, all things market, all things business. We choose instead to spend our time and money training Olympic athletes whose glory means nothing to the football team.
We are not concerned with restoring our once great football program. We've move above that now. We are the gods of Mt. Olympus. We are the Brahmans. Football is for the untouchables.
But we are also pathetic, frail and brittle. We cleave to, long for and are a relic of the rules-based order stewarded and enforced by the NCAA, a now defunct organization in CFB.
Meanwhile, as we navel gaze and contemplate our greatness in all things, the teams listed here are the ones actually contending for the national championship. This isn't a ranking. It's a roster of real CFB programs any one of which can win the title in any year.
They are so far ahead of us we may as well be considered in a different league. Let's say these teams are in D1 CFB and Ucla is in the Elite Exhibition League, a pretend league for programs that pretend to love CFB.
Texas Longhorns - $22.2 million
Ohio State Buckeyes - $20.2 million
LSU Tigers - $20.1 million
Georgia Bulldogs - $18.3 million
Texas A&M Aggies - $17.2 million
Michigan Wolverines - $16.3 million
Alabama Crimson Tide - $15.9 million
Florida Gators - $15.9 million
Clemson Tigers - $15.2 million
Oregon Ducks - $10.6 million
Tennessee Volunteers - Estimated at $11.6 million
Penn State Nittany Lions - $13.7 million.
Indiana Hoosiers - $13.6 million.
South Carolina Gamecocks - $8 million (2023 data).
Louisville Cardinals - $5.7 million (2023 data).
Private Schools: Notre Dame, Usc, TCU, SMU, Miami Fl,