Who spends the most on team travel
Air and ground transportation, lodging, and meals for competition — the line charter flights are paid from.
Texas
$8.88M · $8,877,600
Oklahoma
$7.81M · $7,813,896
Missouri
$7.46M · $7,455,414
Georgia
$6.39M · $6,389,212
Boise State
$2.79M · $2,794,367
Buffalo
$2.78M · $2,779,282
Texas State
$2.58M · $2,583,586
Central Michigan
$2.57M · $2,572,777
Arkansas State
$2.39M · $2,394,868
App State
$2.31M · $2,311,829
Western Michigan
$2.31M · $2,309,047
Georgia Southern
$2.27M · $2,270,865
Georgia State
$2.07M · $2,066,746
University of Nebraska Omaha
$1.60M · $1,604,117
UT Arlington
$1.47M · $1,469,216
UMBC
$1.26M · $1,262,210
Montana State University Billings
$799K · $799,222
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.