Remembering the (College Football) Titans: Integrating College Football in the South

Benjamin Posmanick

Journal of Sports Economics, 2025, vol. 26, issue 8, 936-952

Abstract: Becker’s model of discrimination predicts that discriminating firms will have lower profitability due to discrimination. Therefore, a poorly-performing firm may choose to stop discriminating in an attempt to increase profitability. As predicted, using data on college football teams in the American South during the 1960s and 1970s, I find that worse teams, defined by their winning percentage or Associated Press ranking, tended to integrate sooner than better teams.

Keywords: college football; integration; discrimination; J71; Z22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1177/15270025251372894

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