Why we shouldn’t always trust expert ratings

While watching the myriad of college bowl games this holiday season, many of them between teams that have no business being in bowl games at all, please step back and ponder who the winners and losers of this system are. My high-school friend David Wise takes a critical look at college football in a Real Clear Sports article proclaims it's Time for Colleges to Rein In Football

This story is interesting. There was a scandal at Miami, where "inappropriate" payments were made to players. This follows immediately after a scandal at Ohio State and several other top teams. The NCAA has colluded to fix student athlete salaries. The only payment a player may receive is his scholarship. The actual value of a student athlete is much higher. The schools make millions of dollars off football, but only return a pittance to the players.

Yesterday was "National Signing Day," the culmination of an endless rat race in which college football coaches must constantly replenish the talent on their rosters in order to win games and generate revenue. In order to do that, some teams are spending an incredible amount of money just in the hopes landing a few elite prospects.

Oregon scout-team player Dane Ebanez had played a handful of snaps in his career, but never made it onto the field in a bowl game.

While some state employees are protesting pay and benefit cuts, one group is doing very well -- coaches of major college football and basketball teams.

A recent report by Deloitte, The Hidden Costs of U.S. Health Care: Consumer Discretionary Health Care Spending provides some interesting data.

With the first weekend of Division I college football at our fingertips, I wanted to briefly explore ticket price differences for the Top 25 teams from the pre-season poll. The data below comes from SeatGeek, and reflects average ticket prices from the secondary ticket market of each team?s entire home football schedule for 2010 and ...

Since Congress and the President are taking positions on a college football playoff system, it must be time for Econbrowser to weigh in as well.