re: The 23 universities that make at least $125 million annually from their sports teams

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This is one of them. A&M brought in $279MM in operating revenue.

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As mentioned, its like $50MM lower than that due to made up “revenue” like a $12MM internal loan and a capital campaign.

Anyway interesting Ohio state edges texas w $44MM less fball rev.

Wonder what the per sport profit/loss is?

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I have always heard there are only a handful of profitable men's basketball teams much less women's basketball teams. Which this list had every single schools women's teams making a couple million a year. Are they not accounting for something that was usually factored into that number?

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Revenue is the total amount of income generated by the sale of goods or services related to the company's primary operations1345. Profit, which is typically called net profit or the bottom line, is the amount of income that remains after accounting for all expenses, debts, additional income streams, and operating costs12345. The key difference between revenue and profit is that revenue has not had any expenses deduct

TLDR
Revenue is total monies taken in by the sport. Profit is when all expenses are taken out of the revenue. Profit is much more telling to the health of a sport than revenue...although revenue is important, too. The more revenue taken in the better the chance they have of making a profit.

Hope this makes sense.

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Top 10 includes Bama’s 2 main rivals.

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AU was 9th, but Tennessee was 14th

Ole Miss reported revenue of 142 million a couple of days ago. So the list isn’t
quite up to date. What is amazing though is most schools still report losing
money, or at best, a small profit.

#’s must not be updated.

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Mizzou athletics brought in $141,558,287 in revenue throughout fiscal year 2023

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That would put them at 14th, but I’m sure other schools numbers are off a little too.

The Athletic department made a profit of $1.00. The AD spends money perfectly

LINK

We started putting more into money into sports that don’t make a profit like baseball, women’s basketball, volleyball, gymnastics, wrestling, CC, swim, and track.

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A&M and Texas have been swapping #1 and #2 for some number of years now. The $279M is ahead of Texas's $271 they reported but there is an anomaly this year as there is an subsidy reported by A&M as a loan which is unusual considering the profits after operating expenses is much more than the subsidy.

At any rate, this "ranking" as it were just take revenues from the big 3 sports and add them up. A&M does take a penalty there for seating 35k or so students in prime seats at a subsidized price. So it is not surprising A&M is down the list a little.

Texas would be the runaway number 1 overall if revenue from merchandise was thrown into the equation as they have many more sidewalk fans than A&M.

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Texas follows GAAP rules.

Kind of interesting that the $10 million A&M “anomaly”, the loan from the university to the athletic department, is just enough to surpass Texas in revenue. FYI, obtaining a loan is not generating revenue. It may affect cash flow, but they are not the same.

Texas athletics makes contributions to the university every year and does not get loans from the university.

A&M also includes $50+ Million raised from capital contributions and donations and fund raising as revenue. It is not.