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
$2.10M · $2,101,268
Texas
$1.98M · $1,984,853
Oklahoma
$1.74M · $1,737,669
Missouri
$1.56M · $1,558,399
Buffalo
$966K · $966,489
Arkansas State
$942K · $942,437
Boise State
$899K · $898,892
Texas State
$878K · $877,522
Central Michigan
$783K · $783,137
App State
$763K · $762,855
Western Michigan
$710K · $710,065
Georgia State
$642K · $641,752
Georgia Southern
$582K · $582,167
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.