Evidence of Television Exposure Effects in AP Top 25 College Football Rankings

Noel D. Campbell, Tammy M. Rogers and R. Zachary Finney
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Noel D. Campbell: University of Central Arkansas
Tammy M. Rogers: North Georgia College & State University
R. Zachary Finney: University of South Alabama

Journal of Sports Economics, 2007, vol. 8, issue 4, 425-434

Abstract: A potential source of bias in the Associated Press (AP) Top 25 football rankings is television exposure. Using the 2003-2004 and 2004-2005 college football seasons, the authors observe, all else equal, that AP voters change the ranking of teams differently on the basis of television exposure: The more often a team is televised, relative to the total number of own- and opponent-televised games, the greater the change in the number of AP votes that team receives, even after accounting for own and opponent's on-field performance.

Keywords: college football rankings; sports rankings; rankings bias; sports television exposure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1177/1527002506287660

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