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.
Oklahoma
$2.05M · $2,051,138
Georgia
$1.96M · $1,964,438
Missouri
$1.67M · $1,673,128
Florida Atlantic
$1.57M · $1,572,123
Oregon State
$1.47M · $1,465,728
Marshall
$1.34M · $1,335,782
Boise State
$1.19M · $1,190,135
New Mexico State
$1.08M · $1,077,070
Southern Miss
$947K · $947,342
Northern Illinois
$888K · $888,197
Buffalo
$832K · $831,949
Texas State
$738K · $738,488
Central Michigan
$737K · $736,833
Georgia Southern
$683K · $682,791
Kennesaw State
$627K · $626,891
Georgia State
$619K · $618,735
App State
$606K · $606,251
California Polytechnic State University
$606K · $605,614
Western Michigan
$475K · $474,507
Idaho State
$335K · $334,742
North Carolina A&T State University
$322K · $321,649
Murray State University
$189K · $188,705
Eastern Illinois
$188K · $188,228
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.