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.
Georgia
$2.23M · $2,229,662
Oklahoma
$1.50M · $1,504,745
Missouri
$1.41M · $1,407,107
Texas
$1.30M · $1,297,229
Buffalo
$929K · $929,110
Arkansas State
$852K · $852,497
Boise State
$808K · $808,009
Texas State
$806K · $805,850
App State
$801K · $800,775
Georgia Southern
$704K · $703,771
Georgia State
$681K · $680,874
Central Michigan
$612K · $612,066
Coastal Carolina
$385K · $384,681
Western Michigan
$376K · $375,970
Murray State
$107K · $107,115
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.