The Popularity Of College Football

Since the 1920’s, professional football, basketball, baseball, have become much more popular in the United States, however they have not yet been able to rival college footballs popularity in terms of attendance and revenue. One indicator of college football still being the most popular sport in the United States is game attendance. Some college football programs regularly have more than 100,000 fans in attendance. In fact, in 2011 a regular season game between The University of Michigan and Notre Dame had 114,804 people in attendance (Benedict 47). No other stadiums in the three major sports have a capacity even close to 100,000. Even the Super Bowl, which is often regarded by many as the greatest sporting event in the U.S has never had an attendance that large. The only sport that is able to draw those numbers is college football, and it
When it comes to attendance, college football has no rivals. Another way to measure the popularity of college football is to look at the all the money that it generates. The ability to make this money means that people are paying either to see or show support for their team in some regard. The University of Texas program had a $78 million profit during the 2011-12 football season (Benedict 52). This is more profit than all but four NFL (which the most profitable of the three professional