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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.
20Schools ranked
FY2017Fiscal year
$80.14MCombined facilities & debt service
831Reports parsed

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

Rank / schoolReported facilities & debt serviceChange
01

Texas

$27.18M · $27,180,747

+34% YoY
02

Georgia

$9.13M · $9,134,450

−1% YoY
03

Oklahoma

$6.67M · $6,672,044

no prior year
04

Missouri

$6.36M · $6,355,157

no prior year
05

Texas State

$5.03M · $5,030,704

+38% YoY
06

Boise State

$4.71M · $4,708,458

−12% YoY
07

Western Michigan

$3.82M · $3,824,379

no prior year
08

App State

$3.59M · $3,590,045

−5% YoY
09

Arkansas State

$3.22M · $3,215,381

no prior year
10

Coastal Carolina

$2.58M · $2,579,551

no prior year
11

Central Michigan

$2.34M · $2,337,485

+21% YoY
12

Georgia Southern

$1.84M · $1,838,938

−27% YoY
13

Georgia State

$1.33M · $1,333,399

+11% YoY
14

UMBC

$1.22M · $1,216,470

no prior year
15

Buffalo

$412K · $412,345

no prior year
16

UT Arlington

$344K · $343,840

no prior year
17

Northern Kentucky

$249K · $248,576

no prior year
18

Radford

$74K · $73,737

no prior year
19

Montana State University Billings

$42K · $42,077

no prior year
20

Murray State

$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.