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Who spends the most on football 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.
89Schools ranked
FY2021Fiscal year
$49.65MCombined football team travel
831Reports parsed

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.

Rank / schoolReported football team travelChange
01

Georgia

$2.30M · $2,298,284

+17% YoY
02

Clemson

$2.28M · $2,275,625

no prior year
03

Texas A&M

$2.12M · $2,120,327

no prior year
04

Kentucky

$2.07M · $2,071,554

no prior year
05

Nebraska

$2.01M · $2,012,306

no prior year
06

Oklahoma

$1.73M · $1,728,760

−16% YoY
07

Texas

$1.68M · $1,683,913

no prior year
08

South Carolina

$1.42M · $1,418,636

no prior year
09

Georgia Tech

$1.38M · $1,382,194

no prior year
10

North Carolina

$1.35M · $1,346,918

no prior year
11

NC State

$1.33M · $1,325,540

no prior year
12

San José State

$1.27M · $1,271,003

no prior year
13

Missouri

$1.27M · $1,265,186

−24% YoY
14

Ohio State

$1.24M · $1,241,933

no prior year
15

Middle Tennessee

$1.12M · $1,117,963

no prior year
16

Indiana

$1.04M · $1,036,937

no prior year
17

Maryland

$1.03M · $1,026,361

no prior year
18

Oklahoma State

$1.00M · $1,003,576

no prior year
19

University of Hawaii, Manoa

$977K · $976,526

no prior year
20

Texas State

$956K · $956,350

+30% YoY
21

Arizona

$951K · $951,329

no prior year
22

Southern Miss

$945K · $945,477

flat
23

Mississippi State

$880K · $880,110

no prior year
24

UCLA

$841K · $840,903

no prior year
25

Florida Atlantic

$806K · $806,110

−49% YoY
26

Nevada

$790K · $790,480

no prior year
27

East Carolina

$729K · $729,175

no prior year
28

Eastern Washington

$720K · $720,255

no prior year
29

Michigan

$660K · $659,642

no prior year
30

Florida International

$634K · $634,242

no prior year
31

Charlotte

$605K · $604,689

no prior year
32

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

$599K · $599,267

no prior year
33

UNLV

$557K · $556,644

no prior year
34

North Dakota State

$556K · $556,409

no prior year
35

Fresno State

$556K · $556,006

no prior year
36

Buffalo

$548K · $548,386

−34% YoY
37

Stephen F. Austin State University

$532K · $531,886

no prior year
38

Boise State

$509K · $508,682

−57% YoY
39

Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

$479K · $478,823

no prior year
40

Oregon State

$450K · $449,605

−69% YoY
41

Purdue

$422K · $421,739

no prior year
42

Illinois State University

$381K · $381,162

no prior year
43

Utah State

$375K · $375,333

no prior year
44

Kennesaw State

$365K · $365,273

−42% YoY
45

University of California, Davis

$360K · $360,399

no prior year
46

Austin Peay State University

$347K · $347,064

no prior year
47

South Dakota State

$327K · $326,625

no prior year
48

Georgia State

$309K · $308,731

−50% YoY
49

North Alabama

$298K · $297,618

no prior year
50

Eastern Kentucky

$271K · $270,617

no prior year
51

Idaho

$254K · $254,148

no prior year
52

South Dakota

$252K · $251,723

no prior year
53

Maine

$241K · $240,781

no prior year
54

UAlbany

$226K · $225,590

no prior year
55

University of Northern Iowa

$190K · $189,888

no prior year
56

Western Carolina

$190K · $189,576

no prior year
57

Idaho State

$176K · $176,301

−47% YoY
58

Ball State

$174K · $173,935

no prior year
59

South Carolina State University

$159K · $158,969

no prior year
60

Western Michigan

$149K · $148,550

−69% YoY
61

Indiana State

$135K · $135,258

no prior year
62

Stony Brook

$131K · $130,933

no prior year
63

Eastern Michigan

$109K · $109,336

no prior year
64

Central Michigan

$99K · $98,543

−87% YoY
65

Rhode Island

$98K · $97,535

no prior year
66

East Tennessee State

$97K · $96,782

no prior year
67

Portland State University

$88K · $88,358

no prior year
68

Sam Houston

$87K · $86,777

no prior year
69

Morehead State

$72K · $71,921

no prior year
70

Weber State University

$44K · $43,710

no prior year
71

Fort Lewis College

$34K · $33,645

no prior year
72

Angelo State

$34K · $33,569

no prior year
73

UConn

$30K · $30,332

no prior year
74

Montana State

$30K · $29,536

no prior year
75

New Mexico State

$29K · $28,592

−97% YoY
76

Towson

$28K · $27,960

no prior year
77

Nebraska-Kearney

$21K · $20,571

no prior year
78

Central Washington

$20K · $20,180

no prior year
79

Michigan Tech

$19K · $19,308

no prior year
80

Southeastern Oklahoma State

$18K · $18,108

no prior year
81

West Liberty University

$17K · $16,617

no prior year
82

University of West Florida

$14K · $14,029

no prior year
83

Midwestern State University

$11K · $10,990

no prior year
84

Eastern New Mexico University

$4K · $4,041

no prior year
85

Emporia State University

$3K · $2,700

no prior year
86

Black Hills State University

$2K · $2,014

no prior year
87

Albany State University (Georgia)

$2K · $1,834

no prior year
88

University of Central Missouri

$808 · $808

no prior year
89

New Mexico

$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.