Who spends the most on football team travel
Air and ground transportation, lodging, and meals for competition — the line charter flights are paid from. These figures are the amounts each school allocated to football.
Texas
$1.56M · $1,557,274
Georgia
$1.48M · $1,479,632
Akron
$899K · $898,815
Texas State
$883K · $883,051
Georgia State
$857K · $856,923
Marshall
$834K · $833,989
App State
$572K · $571,733
Georgia Southern
$529K · $529,175
Central Michigan
$506K · $506,361
Southeast Missouri State University
$165K · $165,486
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.