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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.
18Schools ranked
FY2018Fiscal year
$86.20MCombined facilities & debt service
831Reports parsed

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

Rank / schoolReported facilities & debt serviceChange
01

Texas

$24.52M · $24,519,458

−10% YoY
02

Oklahoma

$14.84M · $14,842,471

+122% YoY
03

Georgia

$9.91M · $9,911,086

+9% YoY
04

Missouri

$6.67M · $6,671,482

+5% YoY
05

Boise State

$4.46M · $4,462,693

−5% YoY
06

Western Michigan

$4.27M · $4,266,673

+12% YoY
07

Georgia State

$4.23M · $4,227,539

+217% YoY
08

Texas State

$3.80M · $3,803,890

−24% YoY
09

App State

$3.48M · $3,483,153

−3% YoY
10

Central Michigan

$2.24M · $2,238,804

−4% YoY
11

University of Nebraska Omaha

$2.04M · $2,041,843

no prior year
12

Arkansas State

$2.02M · $2,019,228

−37% YoY
13

Georgia Southern

$1.80M · $1,797,322

−2% YoY
14

UMBC

$1.12M · $1,122,792

−8% YoY
15

Buffalo

$415K · $415,299

+1% YoY
16

UT Arlington

$344K · $343,680

flat
17

Montana State University Billings

$37K · $37,251

−11% YoY
18

Ball 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.