Who spends the most on team travel
Air and ground transportation, lodging, and meals for competition — the line charter flights are paid from.
Texas
$7.65M · $7,654,688
Oklahoma
$7.29M · $7,285,681
Missouri
$6.81M · $6,810,366
Georgia
$6.44M · $6,438,667
Buffalo
$3.01M · $3,012,827
Boise State
$2.84M · $2,840,061
Coastal Carolina
$2.44M · $2,444,945
Texas State
$2.38M · $2,382,814
App State
$2.33M · $2,332,828
Central Michigan
$2.24M · $2,243,276
Arkansas State
$2.23M · $2,228,498
Georgia Southern
$2.12M · $2,123,687
Western Michigan
$1.99M · $1,987,211
Georgia State
$1.84M · $1,840,876
UT Arlington
$1.29M · $1,291,892
UMBC
$1.22M · $1,220,601
Northern Kentucky
$1.05M · $1,053,882
Murray State
$935K · $934,941
Radford
$727K · $726,696
Montana State University Billings
$574K · $573,901
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.