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Who spends the most on team travel

Every figure is read from the school's own NCAA financial report — the annual filing each Division I athletics department submits to the NCAA. Ranked by reported dollars, not by results.
24Schools ranked
FY2020Fiscal year
$57.57MCombined team travel
831Reports parsed

Air and ground transportation, lodging, and meals for competition — the line charter flights are paid from.

Rank / schoolReported team travelChange
01

Oklahoma

$6.77M · $6,771,598

no prior year
02

Georgia

$5.86M · $5,857,920

−12% YoY
03

Oregon State

$3.93M · $3,930,088

no prior year
04

Marshall

$3.36M · $3,359,124

no prior year
05

Florida Atlantic

$3.22M · $3,215,880

no prior year
06

Boise State

$3.00M · $2,998,696

no prior year
07

New Mexico State

$2.50M · $2,501,077

no prior year
08

Buffalo

$2.24M · $2,242,877

−29% YoY
09

Northern Illinois

$2.17M · $2,174,170

−9% YoY
10

Southern Miss

$2.05M · $2,051,278

no prior year
11

Texas State

$2.02M · $2,019,145

no prior year
12

Central Michigan

$2.00M · $2,000,790

−8% YoY
13

App State

$2.00M · $1,999,331

no prior year
14

California Polytechnic State University

$1.89M · $1,892,226

no prior year
15

Georgia Southern

$1.87M · $1,873,563

no prior year
16

Georgia State

$1.86M · $1,857,231

−13% YoY
17

Western Michigan

$1.82M · $1,823,324

no prior year
18

Kennesaw State

$1.77M · $1,769,760

no prior year
19

Missouri

$1.67M · $1,673,128

no prior year
20

North Carolina A&T State University

$1.47M · $1,470,304

no prior year
21

Florida Gulf Coast University

$1.24M · $1,239,666

no prior year
22

Idaho State

$1.11M · $1,105,172

no prior year
23

Murray State University

$944K · $943,975

no prior year
24

Eastern Illinois

$800K · $800,149

no prior year
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.