NCAA; College Sports; Football Archives

Two great American institutions are about to crank up. First-year students and their older classmates will soon return to campus

Sports leagues can be thought of as clubs. To enter any club, permission must be obtained from the incumbents, which

Todd McCubbin, the executive director of the University of Missouri Alumni Association, writes a short piece on the number of

From Pat Forde at ESPN: Oklahoma ran it up last and loudest, scoring 45 fourth-quarter points in its past two

From USA Today’s Campus Rivalry blog: Mike Slive, the conference’s commissioner, told the New York Times that he is prepared to react

In an earlier post, I wrote about Big 10 expansion and argued that if the Big 10 decided to expand,

I am happy to join the great group of Sports Economists that post here at The Sports Economist. A day

As a long time college football fan, the past few months have to be the most interesting off season I

Lately, the hiring of Gene Chizik for the head football coaching job at Auburn generated a ton of (mostly negative)

The fact that college athletics has a salary cap on players = $0 forces schools to use non-pecuniary means to

Many folks point to the NFL revenue sharing system and its salary cap as the determinants behind the more-or-less balanced

I’ve written before on cupcakes in college football (see here as well). You know the cupcake. The team expected to