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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.
9Schools ranked
FY2019Fiscal year
$48.08MCombined facilities & debt service
831Reports parsed

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

Rank / schoolReported facilities & debt serviceChange
01

Texas

$26.00M · $25,999,133

+6% YoY
02

Georgia

$10.09M · $10,087,173

+2% YoY
03

Virginia

$4.62M · $4,615,418

no prior year
04

Georgia State

$3.18M · $3,184,550

−25% YoY
05

Central Michigan

$1.92M · $1,920,330

−14% YoY
06

Northern Illinois

$974K · $973,700

no prior year
07

Buffalo

$917K · $917,472

+121% YoY
08

UT Arlington

$343K · $343,280

flat
09

Montana State University Billings

$42K · $41,830

+12% YoY
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.