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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.
115Schools ranked
FY2025Fiscal year
$158.44MCombined 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

UCLA

$5.17M · $5,170,099

+139% YoY
02

Rutgers

$4.45M · $4,454,657

+25% YoY
03

Georgia

$3.84M · $3,839,200

+65% YoY
04

South Florida

$3.77M · $3,767,090

+42% YoY
05

Texas

$3.74M · $3,738,960

+10% YoY
06

Texas A&M

$3.46M · $3,456,783

−4% YoY
07

Florida State

$3.39M · $3,392,272

no prior year
08

Alabama

$3.31M · $3,308,549

+27% YoY
09

Nebraska

$3.14M · $3,142,875

+16% YoY
10

Clemson

$3.08M · $3,081,461

+26% YoY
11

Mississippi State

$3.04M · $3,044,036

+124% YoY
12

Oklahoma

$3.03M · $3,029,878

no prior year
13

Arizona State

$3.02M · $3,016,882

+70% YoY
14

Florida

$2.83M · $2,828,630

−2% YoY
15

Oklahoma State

$2.67M · $2,670,009

−4% YoY
16

Michigan State

$2.56M · $2,560,644

flat
17

Georgia Tech

$2.51M · $2,512,304

+18% YoY
18

Virginia

$2.49M · $2,494,942

no prior year
19

Arkansas State

$2.41M · $2,411,521

+46% YoY
20

Auburn

$2.41M · $2,407,077

−20% YoY
21

Kansas

$2.33M · $2,329,034

no prior year
22

Arizona

$2.28M · $2,276,649

−27% YoY
23

Iowa

$2.25M · $2,254,433

−11% YoY
24

Michigan

$2.14M · $2,137,087

−29% YoY
25

Indiana

$2.09M · $2,086,171

−1% YoY
26

Boise State

$2.06M · $2,061,238

+29% YoY
27

Purdue

$2.03M · $2,030,278

no prior year
28

UCF

$1.97M · $1,969,613

no prior year
29

UConn

$1.90M · $1,901,212

−12% YoY
30

Florida Atlantic

$1.89M · $1,894,472

+8% YoY
31

Georgia Southern

$1.89M · $1,888,306

+68% YoY
32

UNLV

$1.88M · $1,878,288

+131% YoY
33

San Diego State

$1.86M · $1,859,273

+8% YoY
34

Texas Tech

$1.84M · $1,844,340

−13% YoY
35

Army

$1.84M · $1,843,246

−9% YoY
36

Jacksonville State

$1.71M · $1,713,921

no prior year
37

Louisville

$1.70M · $1,702,792

+72% YoY
38

University of Hawaii, Manoa

$1.64M · $1,635,418

−27% YoY
39

Kennesaw State

$1.62M · $1,618,548

+131% YoY
40

Middle Tennessee

$1.56M · $1,564,835

no prior year
41

Buffalo

$1.42M · $1,421,656

+9% YoY
42

Oregon State

$1.36M · $1,364,500

−23% YoY
43

Memphis

$1.35M · $1,347,697

+9% YoY
44

Sam Houston

$1.31M · $1,305,064

+155% YoY
45

Wyoming

$1.24M · $1,235,483

+4% YoY
46

Fresno State

$1.23M · $1,233,269

−3% YoY
47

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

$1.22M · $1,215,151

+4% YoY
48

Charlotte

$1.21M · $1,212,650

−15% YoY
49

Nevada

$1.20M · $1,195,963

+16% YoY
50

Southern Miss

$1.19M · $1,185,092

no prior year
51

Florida International

$1.16M · $1,164,673

−12% YoY
52

UAB

$1.16M · $1,155,624

−3% YoY
53

NC State

$1.15M · $1,148,350

−38% YoY
54

Ball State

$1.12M · $1,116,369

+109% YoY
55

Texas State

$1.09M · $1,093,113

+19% YoY
56

East Carolina

$1.09M · $1,090,314

no prior year
57

Georgia State

$1.04M · $1,041,495

−1% YoY
58

Eastern Michigan

$1.02M · $1,018,048

+19% YoY
59

San José State

$1.01M · $1,009,663

−20% YoY
60

Missouri State

$984K · $984,263

+58% YoY
61

California Polytechnic State University

$976K · $975,910

+67% YoY
62

Eastern Washington

$954K · $954,113

+10% YoY
63

South Alabama

$954K · $954,030

no prior year
64

Colorado State

$952K · $952,485

no prior year
65

Portland State University

$922K · $921,779

+53% YoY
66

Sacramento State

$900K · $899,695

no prior year
67

Montana State

$893K · $892,923

+32% YoY
68

Jackson State

$884K · $884,048

+35% YoY
69

Tarleton State University

$875K · $874,586

−10% YoY
70

Maine

$874K · $873,590

+1% YoY
71

Alabama A&M

$844K · $844,199

+15% YoY
72

Prairie View A&M

$839K · $839,465

no prior year
73

Morgan State

$828K · $828,397

+28% YoY
74

University of California, Davis

$805K · $804,813

no prior year
75

North Dakota State

$756K · $756,058

no prior year
76

University of Northern Iowa

$753K · $752,908

+65% YoY
77

Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

$733K · $732,701

−12% YoY
78

Indiana State

$723K · $723,169

−2% YoY
79

Stony Brook

$712K · $712,359

+13% YoY
80

Northern Illinois

$704K · $703,688

no prior year
81

Austin Peay State University

$703K · $703,004

−20% YoY
82

UAlbany

$690K · $689,959

+3% YoY
83

Western Michigan

$688K · $688,265

−8% YoY
84

Montana

$666K · $666,007

−42% YoY
85

South Dakota State

$665K · $665,426

−35% YoY
86

North Dakota

$630K · $630,320

−3% YoY
87

South Carolina State University

$629K · $628,737

no prior year
88

Illinois State University

$614K · $613,662

no prior year
89

Florida A&M University

$612K · $612,127

no prior year
90

South Dakota

$611K · $610,565

−1% YoY
91

William & Mary

$605K · $605,436

+9% YoY
92

Norfolk State

$591K · $591,174

+116% YoY
93

North Carolina Central

$550K · $550,184

−24% YoY
94

Central Michigan

$548K · $548,293

−10% YoY
95

Towson

$492K · $492,090

+11% YoY
96

Texas Southern University

$484K · $483,811

no prior year
97

Murray State University

$484K · $483,710

+1% YoY
98

Chattanooga

$443K · $442,701

+30% YoY
99

Alcorn State University

$388K · $387,562

−3% YoY
100

Morehead State

$360K · $360,383

+12% YoY
101

Western Carolina

$357K · $356,888

+32% YoY
102

North Alabama

$346K · $345,765

flat
103

Stephen F. Austin State University

$331K · $330,743

−55% YoY
104

Eastern Illinois

$325K · $325,310

+37% YoY
105

Western Illinois

$324K · $323,933

−48% YoY
106

University of Arkansas, Pine Bluff

$286K · $286,007

no prior year
107

Eastern Kentucky

$279K · $278,686

−11% YoY
108

The Citadel

$267K · $266,912

−8% YoY
109

University of West Florida

$236K · $235,842

+6% YoY
110

Mississippi Valley State University

$223K · $223,382

no prior year
111

Lamar

$214K · $214,163

+31% YoY
112

VMI

$197K · $196,949

no prior year
113

Bowie State University

$142K · $141,600

no prior year
114

South Dakota School of Mines &

$112K · $111,614

no prior year
115

Missouri Western State University

$108K · $108,103

−6% YoY
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.