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.
Texas A&M
$2.97M · $2,972,700
Alabama
$2.71M · $2,706,315
Rutgers
$2.53M · $2,525,772
Texas
$2.48M · $2,482,523
Missouri
$2.47M · $2,471,784
Clemson
$2.29M · $2,285,255
Georgia
$2.24M · $2,238,521
Kentucky
$2.22M · $2,221,398
Oklahoma State
$2.21M · $2,207,681
Michigan
$2.17M · $2,171,522
Oklahoma
$2.16M · $2,158,938
Virginia
$2.12M · $2,121,550
University of Hawaii, Manoa
$2.08M · $2,082,221
Army
$1.94M · $1,940,549
Florida State
$1.90M · $1,900,862
Iowa
$1.88M · $1,877,751
South Carolina
$1.87M · $1,872,443
Indiana
$1.77M · $1,766,293
Maryland
$1.69M · $1,693,958
North Carolina
$1.63M · $1,633,959
NC State
$1.63M · $1,629,636
Marshall
$1.61M · $1,606,502
Nebraska
$1.57M · $1,568,488
UCLA
$1.54M · $1,540,763
Michigan State
$1.54M · $1,537,051
Arizona State
$1.53M · $1,529,346
Oregon State
$1.52M · $1,515,991
South Florida
$1.34M · $1,337,294
New Mexico State
$1.24M · $1,240,281
UConn
$1.21M · $1,206,001
Florida Atlantic
$1.20M · $1,198,195
Middle Tennessee
$1.17M · $1,173,351
Buffalo
$1.15M · $1,148,542
Eastern Washington
$1.15M · $1,148,431
Boise State
$1.05M · $1,054,780
Texas State
$1.05M · $1,045,303
Arkansas State
$965K · $965,491
UNLV
$953K · $952,999
Southern Miss
$944K · $943,591
App State
$922K · $921,659
East Carolina
$918K · $918,337
UAB
$912K · $912,021
Utah State
$875K · $874,656
Fresno State
$847K · $847,475
Florida International
$847K · $847,122
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
$839K · $839,488
Wyoming
$837K · $837,477
Idaho
$831K · $831,235
California Polytechnic State University
$697K · $697,318
North Dakota
$679K · $678,560
Northern Illinois
$641K · $640,587
Towson
$612K · $612,432
Alabama A&M
$590K · $590,046
South Dakota State
$579K · $579,390
Montana
$572K · $572,380
Central Michigan
$527K · $526,763
Georgia State
$514K · $514,363
Indiana State
$507K · $507,432
Stony Brook
$494K · $493,811
Idaho State
$486K · $486,151
Lamar
$451K · $450,630
University of Northern Iowa
$447K · $447,323
Maine
$442K · $441,859
Portland State University
$428K · $427,602
Western Illinois
$421K · $421,181
Austin Peay State University
$409K · $409,451
Sam Houston
$348K · $347,968
South Carolina State University
$345K · $345,114
UAlbany
$331K · $331,126
North Carolina Central
$308K · $308,227
Morgan State
$306K · $306,479
Angelo State
$296K · $296,056
Weber State University
$279K · $278,706
Morehead State
$274K · $273,513
Western Carolina
$228K · $227,582
Alcorn State University
$212K · $211,500
Central Connecticut
$199K · $198,988
Jackson State
$174K · $173,840
Eastern Illinois
$172K · $172,397
Murray State University
$169K · $168,648
New Mexico
$154K · $154,011
Fort Lewis College
$149K · $149,116
University of West Florida
$140K · $139,925
West Virginia State University
$134K · $133,648
Midwestern State University
$134K · $133,508
Nebraska-Kearney
$126K · $126,450
Michigan Tech
$108K · $108,402
Black Hills State University
$107K · $106,692
Emporia State University
$106K · $106,005
Eastern New Mexico University
$88K · $87,531
University of Central Missouri
$78K · $78,202
Southeastern Oklahoma State
$55K · $55,030
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.