Who spends the most on coaches compensation
Salaries, benefits, and bonuses paid to coaches by the institution and by affiliated entities.
Texas
$32.49M · $32,492,276
Georgia
$27.74M · $27,742,559
Virginia
$25.67M · $25,670,067
Buffalo
$7.72M · $7,718,600
Central Michigan
$6.70M · $6,699,210
Georgia State
$6.21M · $6,213,305
Northern Illinois
$4.53M · $4,531,480
UT Arlington
$3.45M · $3,446,613
Montana State University Billings
$1.07M · $1,066,083
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.