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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.
115Schools ranked
FY2021Fiscal year
$201.03MCombined 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

Kentucky

$7.75M · $7,749,422

no prior year
02

Texas

$7.55M · $7,549,941

no prior year
03

Texas A&M

$7.11M · $7,107,357

no prior year
04

Nebraska

$5.90M · $5,900,951

no prior year
05

Michigan

$5.68M · $5,677,442

no prior year
06

Oklahoma

$5.57M · $5,572,086

−18% YoY
07

Clemson

$5.35M · $5,354,363

no prior year
08

North Carolina

$5.19M · $5,190,915

no prior year
09

Missouri

$5.18M · $5,182,764

+210% YoY
10

Georgia

$5.05M · $5,052,057

−14% YoY
11

Indiana

$4.99M · $4,985,663

no prior year
12

Ohio State

$4.89M · $4,888,837

no prior year
13

South Carolina

$4.84M · $4,840,281

no prior year
14

NC State

$4.84M · $4,838,914

no prior year
15

Maryland

$4.62M · $4,617,202

no prior year
16

Arizona

$4.54M · $4,539,970

no prior year
17

UCLA

$4.35M · $4,351,790

no prior year
18

Mississippi State

$4.32M · $4,324,945

no prior year
19

Georgia Tech

$4.15M · $4,147,148

no prior year
20

Oklahoma State

$4.04M · $4,042,508

no prior year
21

Purdue

$3.34M · $3,335,809

no prior year
22

Oregon State

$2.56M · $2,561,282

−35% YoY
23

Middle Tennessee

$2.49M · $2,493,143

no prior year
24

Texas State

$2.39M · $2,386,115

+18% YoY
25

San José State

$2.38M · $2,380,330

no prior year
26

University of Hawaii, Manoa

$2.34M · $2,341,586

no prior year
27

Southern Miss

$2.21M · $2,213,318

+8% YoY
28

East Carolina

$2.13M · $2,132,302

no prior year
29

Nevada

$2.12M · $2,124,770

no prior year
30

VCU

$2.04M · $2,037,506

no prior year
31

Fresno State

$2.03M · $2,028,437

no prior year
32

Charlotte

$1.87M · $1,873,009

no prior year
33

UNLV

$1.87M · $1,871,224

no prior year
34

Boise State

$1.84M · $1,835,789

−39% YoY
35

Utah State

$1.84M · $1,835,047

no prior year
36

Florida Atlantic

$1.83M · $1,828,137

−43% YoY
37

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

$1.80M · $1,798,720

no prior year
38

Stephen F. Austin State University

$1.80M · $1,796,915

no prior year
39

New Mexico State

$1.79M · $1,792,318

−28% YoY
40

Buffalo

$1.68M · $1,683,618

−25% YoY
41

Rhode Island

$1.66M · $1,662,523

no prior year
42

Florida International

$1.61M · $1,612,655

no prior year
43

North Dakota State

$1.49M · $1,486,036

no prior year
44

Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

$1.48M · $1,480,059

no prior year
45

Kennesaw State

$1.47M · $1,468,780

−17% YoY
46

Illinois State University

$1.39M · $1,387,245

no prior year
47

Eastern Washington

$1.33M · $1,333,377

no prior year
48

South Dakota State

$1.30M · $1,295,965

no prior year
49

Indiana State

$1.26M · $1,260,167

no prior year
50

Ball State

$1.17M · $1,167,001

no prior year
51

University of California, Davis

$1.14M · $1,138,571

no prior year
52

South Dakota

$1.14M · $1,137,726

no prior year
53

George Mason University

$1.12M · $1,121,685

no prior year
54

Maine

$1.12M · $1,116,619

no prior year
55

University of Nebraska Omaha

$1.07M · $1,072,190

no prior year
56

University of Northern Iowa

$1.07M · $1,070,769

no prior year
57

Central Michigan

$1.06M · $1,055,750

−47% YoY
58

Towson

$1.05M · $1,052,790

no prior year
59

Georgia State

$1.05M · $1,052,674

−43% YoY
60

Eastern Kentucky

$967K · $966,899

no prior year
61

North Alabama

$950K · $950,481

no prior year
62

Austin Peay State University

$939K · $938,503

no prior year
63

Western Michigan

$909K · $909,114

−50% YoY
64

UAlbany

$902K · $902,155

no prior year
65

Idaho

$900K · $900,162

no prior year
66

Montana

$836K · $836,117

no prior year
67

Idaho State

$831K · $831,186

−25% YoY
68

The University of North Carolina at

$825K · $825,074

no prior year
69

UC Santa Barbara

$810K · $810,051

no prior year
70

Florida Gulf Coast University

$806K · $806,438

−35% YoY
71

Stony Brook

$801K · $801,084

no prior year
72

Portland State University

$795K · $794,698

no prior year
73

Eastern Michigan

$794K · $794,300

no prior year
74

Weber State University

$776K · $775,771

no prior year
75

Sam Houston

$752K · $751,746

no prior year
76

Montana State

$742K · $741,714

no prior year
77

Western Carolina

$706K · $705,848

no prior year
78

Oakland

$698K · $698,307

no prior year
79

East Tennessee State

$685K · $684,733

no prior year
80

North Carolina A&T State University

$629K · $628,761

−57% YoY
81

University of North Carolina Wilmington

$625K · $625,167

no prior year
82

California State University, Fullerton

$615K · $615,016

no prior year
83

University of Missouri-Kansas City

$537K · $536,820

no prior year
84

University of Central Missouri

$529K · $529,326

no prior year
85

Nebraska-Kearney

$525K · $525,129

no prior year
86

California State University, Bakersfield

$501K · $500,818

no prior year
87

Michigan Tech

$492K · $492,056

no prior year
88

University of Massachusetts Lowell

$483K · $482,558

no prior year
89

University of Wisconsin-Green Bay

$458K · $458,357

no prior year
90

Angelo State

$429K · $429,249

no prior year
91

NJIT

$424K · $424,329

no prior year
92

University of West Florida

$398K · $397,664

no prior year
93

California State University, Northridge

$397K · $397,402

no prior year
94

University of North Georgia

$387K · $387,066

no prior year
95

South Carolina State University

$385K · $385,224

no prior year
96

North Carolina Central

$358K · $358,230

no prior year
97

Montana State University Billings

$351K · $350,987

no prior year
98

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

$349K · $349,172

no prior year
99

University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

$320K · $319,944

no prior year
100

UNC Asheville

$295K · $295,072

no prior year
101

University of Minnesota, Crookston

$294K · $293,651

no prior year
102

Southeastern Oklahoma State

$271K · $271,430

no prior year
103

Black Hills State University

$270K · $269,563

no prior year
104

Fort Lewis College

$250K · $249,738

no prior year
105

University of Missouri–St. Louis

$240K · $239,600

no prior year
106

Central Washington

$239K · $239,117

no prior year
107

Emporia State University

$234K · $233,964

no prior year
108

Cameron University

$212K · $212,129

no prior year
109

Midwestern State University

$208K · $207,612

no prior year
110

West Liberty University

$204K · $204,426

no prior year
111

Eastern New Mexico University

$185K · $185,303

no prior year
112

Georgia College

$134K · $134,027

no prior year
113

New Mexico

$114K · $113,717

no prior year
114

Albany State University (Georgia)

$27K · $26,726

no prior year
115

University of Maryland Eastern Shore

$0 · $0

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.