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
$2.74M · $2,738,389
Oklahoma
$1.07M · $1,067,584
Missouri
$621K · $621,334
Oregon State
$395K · $395,364
Florida Atlantic
$268K · $268,353
Central Michigan
$265K · $264,561
Southern Miss
$263K · $262,674
Boise State
$261K · $260,715
Texas State
$221K · $221,069
Marshall
$217K · $216,768
New Mexico State
$185K · $185,412
Buffalo
$159K · $159,366
Western Michigan
$146K · $146,078
App State
$142K · $141,693
Georgia State
$97K · $97,447
Georgia Southern
$86K · $86,026
California Polytechnic State University
$86K · $85,809
Northern Illinois
$83K · $82,548
Kennesaw State
$79K · $79,222
Eastern Illinois
$49K · $49,425
Idaho State
$49K · $49,113
Murray State University
$49K · $48,868
North Carolina A&T State University
$37K · $37,163
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.