Document Type
Article
Abstract
Division I athletics require a substantial financial commitment from a university. Previous research suggests that athletic success may provide benefits to a university. These benefits might include advertising, which may lead to increased applications. I used 2000-2010 application data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) to investigate if athletic success for Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) football and basketball programs affects the number of applications these universities receive. Key independent variables used are past values of Sagarin ratings, Associated Press Top 20 College Football Poll ratings, and NCAA Basketball Tournament performance. I find that some measures of athletic success do not increase applications for a university at all, whereas other measures of athletic success increase applications only marginally.
Publication Date
Spring 2013
Journal Title
Major Themes in Economics
Volume
15
Issue
1
First Page
37
Last Page
47
Copyright
©2013 by Major Themes in Economics
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Dykstra, Andrew
(2013)
"Does Success on the Grid-Iron and Court Increase Applications to Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) Schools?,"
Major Themes in Economics, 15, 37-47.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/mtie/vol15/iss1/5