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- Title
College Football Conferences and Competitive Balance.
- Authors
Quirk, James
- Abstract
The author reveals that several years ago, he wrote a paper on college football in which he hypothesized that a first approximation to understanding the way in which the college football industry operates is to assume that college football programs, or at least the major college football programs, are run to maximize the net income arising from the program. Using a simplified model of the rules under which college football operates, he argued that those rules would tend to produce problems of competitive balance within college football conferences, which in turn could lead to problems of instability in the membership of such conferences. In particular, he argued that college football teams located in the strongest drawing locations would field stronger teams, on average, than colleges in weak drawing areas, just as is the case in professional sports leagues.
- Subjects
PROFESSIONAL sports; UNIVERSITIES &; colleges; COLLEGE football; MEETINGS; SPORTS teams; INCOME
- Publication
Managerial & Decision Economics, 2004, Vol 25, Issue 2, p63
- ISSN
0143-6570
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/mde.1107