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Who spends the most on facilities & debt service

Every figure is read from the school's own NCAA financial report — the annual filing each Division I athletics department submits to the NCAA. Ranked by reported dollars, not by results.
11Schools ranked
FY2016Fiscal year
$53.03MCombined facilities & debt service
831Reports parsed

Facilities debt service, leases, rental fees, and equipment.

Rank / schoolReported facilities & debt serviceChange
01

Texas

$20.33M · $20,334,140

no prior year
02

Georgia

$9.22M · $9,223,416

no prior year
03

Boise State

$5.36M · $5,362,653

no prior year
04

Akron

$4.98M · $4,984,886

no prior year
05

App State

$3.79M · $3,792,415

no prior year
06

Texas State

$3.64M · $3,636,002

no prior year
07

Georgia Southern

$2.53M · $2,530,841

no prior year
08

Central Michigan

$1.94M · $1,936,511

no prior year
09

Georgia State

$1.20M · $1,201,061

no prior year
10

Southeast Missouri State University

$30K · $29,591

no prior year
11

Marshall

$0 · $0

no prior year
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.