Who spends the most on coaches compensation
Salaries, benefits, and bonuses paid to coaches by the institution and by affiliated entities.
Oklahoma
$31.09M · $31,087,881
Georgia
$28.49M · $28,485,434
Missouri
$21.99M · $21,991,362
Oregon State
$16.11M · $16,114,301
Boise State
$10.22M · $10,224,862
Buffalo
$7.44M · $7,441,935
Florida Atlantic
$7.22M · $7,219,306
Western Michigan
$7.07M · $7,071,983
California Polytechnic State University
$7.02M · $7,021,039
Central Michigan
$6.96M · $6,959,675
Georgia State
$6.35M · $6,352,701
Marshall
$5.75M · $5,752,742
App State
$5.67M · $5,667,780
New Mexico State
$5.54M · $5,536,397
Texas State
$5.48M · $5,476,697
Georgia Southern
$5.47M · $5,465,833
Southern Miss
$5.14M · $5,142,467
Northern Illinois
$4.46M · $4,457,007
Kennesaw State
$4.23M · $4,227,223
North Carolina A&T State University
$3.55M · $3,545,189
Florida Gulf Coast University
$3.44M · $3,440,261
UMBC
$3.40M · $3,398,455
Murray State University
$3.30M · $3,299,423
Eastern Illinois
$3.09M · $3,093,290
Idaho State
$2.53M · $2,530,932
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.