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
$4.51M · $4,506,248
Clemson
$3.16M · $3,158,941
Texas A&M
$2.98M · $2,984,168
Oklahoma
$2.63M · $2,632,817
Texas
$2.44M · $2,439,774
Alabama
$2.32M · $2,324,470
Michigan
$2.24M · $2,240,064
Rutgers
$1.61M · $1,609,032
Maryland
$1.38M · $1,380,974
North Carolina
$1.31M · $1,306,117
Missouri
$1.22M · $1,215,934
Army
$1.19M · $1,185,736
South Carolina
$1.10M · $1,102,357
Nebraska
$1.02M · $1,020,050
Oregon State
$1.01M · $1,008,117
Virginia
$995K · $994,851
Michigan State
$955K · $955,303
Kentucky
$918K · $917,657
Florida State
$899K · $899,308
UCLA
$899K · $899,099
Kansas State
$842K · $841,640
Indiana
$827K · $826,713
UConn
$732K · $732,122
Marshall
$674K · $674,348
NC State
$633K · $632,696
UNLV
$611K · $611,414
South Florida
$607K · $606,542
East Carolina
$604K · $603,934
Iowa
$578K · $577,589
Arizona State
$461K · $461,196
Oklahoma State
$456K · $455,689
Wyoming
$455K · $455,033
Buffalo
$423K · $422,871
Boise State
$409K · $408,502
Eastern Michigan
$394K · $394,345
Texas State
$393K · $393,008
Central Michigan
$382K · $381,642
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
$369K · $369,107
Middle Tennessee
$326K · $326,309
Fresno State
$326K · $325,805
Utah State
$316K · $316,233
Florida Atlantic
$289K · $288,906
New Mexico State
$273K · $272,806
App State
$270K · $269,874
University of Hawaii, Manoa
$247K · $247,448
UAB
$238K · $238,262
Arkansas State
$209K · $209,250
Southern Miss
$183K · $183,120
Towson
$158K · $157,888
Florida International
$157K · $156,996
Portland State University
$156K · $156,032
Murray State University
$145K · $144,894
Maine
$142K · $141,578
Idaho State
$135K · $135,104
Georgia State
$134K · $133,746
California Polytechnic State University
$131K · $131,483
Idaho
$129K · $129,235
Austin Peay State University
$129K · $129,162
Stony Brook
$117K · $116,643
Lamar
$116K · $116,121
Eastern Washington
$115K · $115,224
Northern Illinois
$114K · $113,721
Indiana State
$112K · $111,830
Montana
$112K · $111,557
Sam Houston
$111K · $110,860
Weber State University
$94K · $93,611
North Dakota
$89K · $88,998
University of Northern Iowa
$88K · $88,329
Western Carolina
$86K · $85,946
Eastern Illinois
$76K · $75,849
Western Illinois
$74K · $73,834
UAlbany
$70K · $70,013
Midwestern State University
$55K · $55,069
South Dakota State
$54K · $53,575
Black Hills State University
$48K · $47,592
Michigan Tech
$41K · $40,628
Alcorn State University
$40K · $40,000
University of Central Missouri
$39K · $38,626
Angelo State
$34K · $34,170
Morehead State
$32K · $32,197
Morgan State
$31K · $31,257
Emporia State University
$28K · $28,135
Alabama A&M
$28K · $27,500
Eastern New Mexico University
$27K · $26,843
University of West Florida
$26K · $25,695
North Carolina Central
$26K · $25,549
Nebraska-Kearney
$25K · $24,888
Fort Lewis College
$25K · $24,750
South Carolina State University
$19K · $18,772
Central Connecticut
$18K · $18,283
New Mexico
$14K · $14,323
Southeastern Oklahoma State
$11K · $11,320
Jackson State
$9K · $9,491
Missouri University of Science and
$8K · $7,877
West Virginia State University
$4K · $3,792
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.