COLUMBUS – There’s gold in them thar Buckeyes.
No 10/9 Ohio St. (2-1, 1-0 Big Ten) vs. UNLV (1-1), Ohio Stadium, Sat., Sept. 23 (Noon/BTN)
A Wall Street Journal article valued Ohio State at more than $1.51 billion, the most valuable college football franchise by far.
Texas, at $1.24 billion, and Oklahoma, at a billion, were the next most valuable.
Alabama ($930,000) and LSU ($910,000) rounded out the top five.
The Buckeyes still fall short of the NFL’s least valuable franchise, the Buffalo Bills, worth $1.6 billion.