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
$3.60M · $3,597,709
Rutgers
$3.56M · $3,562,668
Texas
$3.40M · $3,403,528
Arizona
$3.12M · $3,123,365
Auburn
$3.01M · $3,008,969
Michigan
$3.00M · $3,000,696
Florida
$2.88M · $2,884,542
Oklahoma State
$2.78M · $2,776,892
Nebraska
$2.71M · $2,713,338
South Florida
$2.66M · $2,659,065
North Carolina
$2.62M · $2,617,400
Alabama
$2.61M · $2,611,341
Michigan State
$2.56M · $2,560,644
Iowa
$2.53M · $2,530,540
Clemson
$2.45M · $2,452,680
Kentucky
$2.43M · $2,426,416
Georgia
$2.33M · $2,329,037
University of Hawaii, Manoa
$2.25M · $2,252,169
UCLA
$2.17M · $2,166,545
UConn
$2.16M · $2,157,731
Georgia Tech
$2.12M · $2,121,413
Texas Tech
$2.12M · $2,115,630
Indiana
$2.10M · $2,104,184
Army
$2.03M · $2,034,560
Marshall
$2.00M · $1,996,390
NC State
$1.84M · $1,841,525
Oregon State
$1.78M · $1,781,024
Arizona State
$1.77M · $1,771,093
Florida Atlantic
$1.76M · $1,760,743
San Diego State
$1.73M · $1,726,690
Missouri
$1.66M · $1,663,959
Arkansas State
$1.65M · $1,646,898
Boise State
$1.60M · $1,596,369
New Mexico State
$1.50M · $1,504,666
Charlotte
$1.43M · $1,426,457
Maryland
$1.38M · $1,377,655
Mississippi State
$1.36M · $1,357,712
Florida International
$1.33M · $1,325,060
Buffalo
$1.30M · $1,304,067
Fresno State
$1.27M · $1,268,532
San José State
$1.26M · $1,257,409
Memphis
$1.24M · $1,241,760
Idaho
$1.24M · $1,240,902
Wyoming
$1.19M · $1,190,624
UAB
$1.19M · $1,188,024
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
$1.17M · $1,165,071
Montana
$1.16M · $1,156,577
Georgia Southern
$1.13M · $1,126,778
Georgia State
$1.05M · $1,047,987
Nevada
$1.03M · $1,033,144
South Dakota State
$1.02M · $1,020,190
Louisville
$991K · $990,944
Tarleton State University
$973K · $973,016
Texas State
$920K · $919,887
Austin Peay State University
$880K · $879,651
Eastern Washington
$864K · $863,875
Maine
$861K · $861,180
Eastern Michigan
$858K · $857,626
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
$835K · $835,178
UNLV
$812K · $811,741
Western Michigan
$745K · $744,659
Stephen F. Austin State University
$742K · $741,760
Alabama A&M
$736K · $736,081
Indiana State
$734K · $734,341
North Carolina Central
$721K · $720,972
Kennesaw State
$701K · $701,391
Montana State
$676K · $675,866
UAlbany
$667K · $667,032
Jackson State
$655K · $654,527
North Dakota
$651K · $650,645
Morgan State
$647K · $647,201
Stony Brook
$628K · $628,028
Western Illinois
$627K · $627,441
Missouri State
$622K · $622,321
South Dakota
$620K · $619,590
Central Michigan
$608K · $608,454
Portland State University
$603K · $602,721
California Polytechnic State University
$583K · $583,218
William & Mary
$554K · $554,043
Ball State
$533K · $532,884
Sam Houston
$511K · $511,410
Murray State University
$479K · $478,625
Central Washington
$467K · $467,376
Texas A&M-Kingsville
$459K · $458,713
University of Northern Iowa
$456K · $456,223
Towson
$443K · $443,329
Southeast Missouri State University
$403K · $403,445
Alcorn State University
$399K · $399,490
University of Texas Permian Basin
$371K · $370,943
North Alabama
$345K · $344,867
Chattanooga
$340K · $339,801
Morehead State
$320K · $320,440
Eastern Kentucky
$313K · $313,144
Grand Valley State University
$289K · $289,466
The Citadel
$289K · $288,599
Norfolk State
$274K · $274,021
Western Carolina
$270K · $269,839
Eastern Illinois
$237K · $236,884
University of West Georgia
$227K · $226,815
University of West Florida
$222K · $222,373
Northern Michigan University
$194K · $193,837
University of Central Missouri
$186K · $186,450
Northwest Missouri State
$174K · $173,903
Lamar
$164K · $164,030
Western Colorado University
$164K · $163,983
Nebraska-Kearney
$147K · $146,912
Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
$138K · $137,870
Valdosta State University
$120K · $119,595
Savannah State University
$119K · $119,449
West Chester University of Pennsylvania
$118K · $118,485
Missouri Western State University
$114K · $114,430
Minnesota State Moorhead
$112K · $111,826
Fort Valley State
$104K · $104,020
Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
$96K · $96,489
Truman State
$95K · $94,699
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
$90K · $90,000
Millersville University of Pennsylvania
$86K · $85,938
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
$85K · $84,701
Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania
$67K · $67,273
Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania
$67K · $67,212
Frostburg State
$35K · $34,827
Glenville State
$34K · $33,760
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.