Who spends the most on football recruiting
Transportation, lodging, and meals for prospective student-athletes and for staff on official and unofficial visits. These figures are the amounts each school allocated to football.
Georgia
$2.27M · $2,270,960
Oklahoma
$1.11M · $1,113,946
Texas
$847K · $847,231
Missouri
$644K · $644,161
Boise State
$329K · $328,808
App State
$323K · $323,166
Western Michigan
$296K · $295,922
Buffalo
$290K · $290,240
Arkansas State
$251K · $250,571
Coastal Carolina
$207K · $207,233
Texas State
$198K · $198,009
Georgia State
$187K · $186,970
Central Michigan
$179K · $179,152
Georgia Southern
$96K · $95,526
Murray State
$61K · $60,965
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.