Michigan Wolverines
Full department read: how the Team Visibility Score is built, what the calendar is worth in content units, which audience pools are addressable, and the 90-day sequence to move the number.
Where the score comes from
Each input normalized against the league leader, then weighted. The contribution column is what actually moves TVS.
| Input | Raw | Weight | Normalized | Contribution |
|---|---|---|---|---|
MVS · Media visibility Broadcast + national media impressions across the season window. | 203.8M | 40% | 73.4 index | 29.4 |
DSPS · Digital / social Owned + earned social reach across team, athlete and fan channels. | 386.3M | 40% | 93.3 index | 37.3 |
CSRS · City / state / diaspora Addressable population in-market plus diaspora communities that convert. | 123K | 10% | 3.1 index | 0.3 |
SPS · Stadium presence Gate capacity — the physical activation surface per home date. | 108K | 10% | 100 index | 10 |
What the calendar is actually worth
- 13 scheduled eventsEach one is a pre / live / post content unit — three placements minimum.
- 104 clip slotsEight harvestable clips per event at conservative capture.
- 753,207 season attendance7 home dates × 107,601 seats — the physical activation surface.
- 110 athlete channelsDistribution nodes the program does not currently monetize.
Who is addressable
Band assumes the 104 clip slots and 13 event windows are packaged and sold as one season product, with the Ann Arbor market and athlete channels routed through a shared ledger. Low end is inventory-only; high end includes diaspora and commerce activation.
Businesses in this market
Who can actually write the check — firm counts, output and category budget in the club market.
1 declared interest lane unlock 26% of the local sponsor pool — a 1.25× breadth multiplier on reach.
- · Ann Arbor, MI is the commercial anchor — $690B of output and 265,138 employer firms inside the footprint.
- · Auto & dealer groups holds the largest slice of local budget here (29% of the pool, ~$15,156K a year) — lead the sell there.
- · 1,034,038 small businesses sit in these markets. Small-business packages are the fastest revenue to close because they need no national approval.
- · This business base is why Michigan Wolverines carries earnings potential beyond raw follower count.
- · Visibility 91.0 converts to a 21.5% capture rate against a $53.1M local sponsor pool.
- · 487,240 monetizable fans at $60/yr drive $29.23M of fan-economy revenue.
- · Capitalized at a 5.8x revenue multiple. Modeled estimate, not a reported valuation.
- · Every figure above is Michigan Wolverines's market economy priced through visibility — move the visibility score and the whole stack moves with it.
90-day activation plan
Phase-gated. Each block ends in a re-score, not a report.
- · Lock the MICH score sheet: verify Stadium presence as the lead asset (100 index).
- · Audit every owned handle and map the 110 athlete channels into one distribution graph.
- · Price the 104 clip slots against comparable CFB inventory before any sell motion.
- · Close the City / state / diaspora gap — it is the lowest normalized input at 3.1.
- · Stand up 3 recurring franchises around the 7 home dates (pre / live / post).
- · Build a Ann Arbor/MI civic lane — local commerce converts before national does.
- · Package 13 events into a season sponsor tier at the modeled band.
- · Route athlete-channel inventory into the shared rev-share ledger.
- · Re-score at day 90; target +0.9 TVS on the next pull.
Team analysis
Live headlines, combined roster reach, sourced franchise value and viewership — storyline written only from the pulled articles.
Program details · Ann Arbor, Michigan
User-supplied College D1 Sports Teams workbook, 2026-09-07. Social handles are best-known official accounts; verify on each athletics site before use. No follower counts.
| Sport | Conference | Venue | Seats | X | Site | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Football | Big Ten | Michigan Stadium | 107,601 | @UMichFootball | @umichfootball | site |
| Basketball | Big Ten | Crisler Center | 12,707 | @umichbball | @umichbball | site |
| W Basketball | Big Ten | Crisler Center | 12,707 | @umichbball | @umichbball | site |
| W Soccer | Big Ten | U-M Soccer Complex | 2,200 | @umichwsoc | @umichwsoc | site |
| Soccer | Big Ten | U-M Soccer Complex | 2,200 | @umichmsoc | @umichmsoc | site |
| Baseball | Big Ten | Ray Fisher Stadium | 4,000 | @umichbaseball | @umichbaseball | site |
| W Softball | Big Ten | Alumni Field | 2,600 | @umichsoftball | @umichsoftball | site |
| Hockey | Big Ten | Yost Ice Arena | 5,800 | @umichhockey | @umichhockey | site |
| W Volleyball | Big Ten | — | — | @umichbball | @umichbball | site |
Concealed value on this roster
Who is worth more than the attention they get — plus the full report as a PDF.
Players at or above this roster's median RUTS whose followers and 90-day press lag behind. Gap = RUTS minus attention. Only measured follower or press counts qualify — unknown never counts as low reach. Modeled, not reported.
Roster on file
Read live from the athlete database — every name opens that athlete's own RUTS page.
Roster & schedule
Pulled from the official league feed, every athlete scored on the RUTS spine.
Nearest programs by TVS
Price against the band these teams sit in, not against the league leader.
Load MICH into RUTS Analysis to adjust inputs, or scope live opportunities in Ann Arbor.