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
$2.63M · $2,626,622
Texas
$1.82M · $1,823,307
Oklahoma
$1.26M · $1,264,809
Missouri
$686K · $685,834
Boise State
$414K · $414,229
Texas State
$295K · $294,642
App State
$270K · $270,308
Buffalo
$270K · $269,552
Western Michigan
$249K · $249,215
Central Michigan
$201K · $200,537
Georgia State
$187K · $187,257
Arkansas State
$171K · $171,265
Ball State
$152K · $151,607
Georgia Southern
$114K · $113,511
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.