Who spends the most on coaches compensation
Salaries, benefits, and bonuses paid to coaches by the institution and by affiliated entities.
Texas
$26.05M · $26,052,112
Oklahoma
$25.83M · $25,830,103
Georgia
$25.08M · $25,080,974
Missouri
$19.69M · $19,689,886
Boise State
$9.49M · $9,493,953
Western Michigan
$6.99M · $6,987,564
Buffalo
$6.91M · $6,909,844
Central Michigan
$6.46M · $6,459,349
Georgia State
$6.08M · $6,075,516
App State
$6.07M · $6,067,428
Georgia Southern
$5.62M · $5,624,860
Texas State
$4.67M · $4,666,402
Arkansas State
$3.23M · $3,231,585
UT Arlington
$3.16M · $3,164,916
UMBC
$2.84M · $2,843,123
University of Nebraska Omaha
$2.76M · $2,760,594
Montana State University Billings
$1.11M · $1,109,083
Ball State
$0 · $0
How to read these rankings
These figures come from filed NCAA financial reports collected in our document corpus and parsed from the report text. 831 reports parsed cleanly; 56 could not be read and are absent from these rankings, so a school missing from a year has not necessarily reported nothing.
Football and basketball views come from the report's per-sport allocation tables. They cover recruiting and team travel, not aviation alone: commercial airfare, buses, hotels, meals, and other eligible costs share the same lines. A school can also leave some expenses unallocated.
Private universities have no public-disclosure obligation and generally do not appear. Fiscal years are not uniform — most close June 30, but some schools close on a different date, so a single “FY” column compares slightly different periods. Schools also categorize inconsistently between reports, so treat cross-school gaps of a few percent as noise rather than signal.