Who spends the most on team travel
Air and ground transportation, lodging, and meals for competition — the line charter flights are paid from.
Texas
$8.85M · $8,847,243
Virginia
$7.28M · $7,275,969
Georgia
$6.69M · $6,693,151
Buffalo
$3.14M · $3,140,132
Northern Illinois
$2.40M · $2,401,161
Central Michigan
$2.18M · $2,177,208
Georgia State
$2.15M · $2,145,432
UT Arlington
$1.70M · $1,704,127
Montana State University Billings
$789K · $789,190
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.