This week, The Athletic (subscription required) printed an article titled “What if college football teams could be sold? Ranking Power 4 teams by their valuation,” which, for individuals who have been being attentive to the place faculty soccer is headed, exhibits none of those projections are out of the realm of chance. Still, that is merely an train for followers/alum who’re enthusiastic about figuring out their group’s financial worth.
Conference realignment has all however destroyed the faculty soccer we used to know, because the SEC, Big Ten, Big 12, and ACC make up the Power Four conferences that every one however signify the panorama, whereas the colleges with the biggest alumni/donor base, which incorporates Texas A&M, have thrived within the age of NIL collectives, which has resulted in coach Mike Elko touchdown top-ranked switch portal class, and presently holds the No. 1-ranked 2027 recruiting class.
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After making the College Football Playoff for the primary time in program history final season, Elko is not seeking to decelerate after a file 10 gamers had been chosen within the 2026 NFL Draft, returning 65% of the 2025 roster, mixed with 40-plus newcomers from the switch portal and 2026 signing class.
Author Matt Baker broke down his worth rankings utilizing “theoretical sales prices” and, with the constant help from the Aggie trustworthy, who had been just lately ranked because the second “most loyal” fanbase within the nation. Making the CFP with Elko on the helm will additional improve income.
Last 12 months, Texas A&M’s potential worth ranked fifteenth at $973 million, whereas the Aggies’ got here in seventeenth at $1.05 billion forward of the 2026 season.
“The Tigers, Cornhuskers and Huskies have all averaged about $120 million in football revenue. The Aggies are a notch behind ($105 million), but we’re lumping them in the same group because their location and alumni size give them a higher upside. Last year’s CFP appearance was a point of vindication for A&M, too. Auburn was the only one of these programs in our $1 billion club last year.”
Texas A&M has been extensively thought to be a “sleeping giant” in faculty soccer given the big alumni base and steadfast help, and if Elko continues to show his price after signing his six-year extension this offseason, I absolutely anticipate the Aggies to rise in worth.
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