Who spends the most on total operating expenses
All reported athletics operating expenses for the fiscal year.
Texas
$207.02M · $207,022,323
Oklahoma
$132.91M · $132,910,780
Georgia
$119.22M · $119,218,908
Missouri
$102.41M · $102,409,131
Boise State
$45.46M · $45,456,789
Arkansas State
$39.46M · $39,459,027
Western Michigan
$38.27M · $38,271,134
Texas State
$35.92M · $35,915,260
Buffalo
$35.88M · $35,883,884
App State
$35.07M · $35,065,566
Coastal Carolina
$33.70M · $33,704,483
Central Michigan
$31.79M · $31,792,125
Georgia State
$29.86M · $29,859,420
Georgia Southern
$28.76M · $28,761,605
UMBC
$16.84M · $16,837,354
Murray State
$16.01M · $16,006,494
Northern Kentucky
$14.63M · $14,634,532
UT Arlington
$14.15M · $14,145,916
Radford
$12.91M · $12,910,385
Montana State University Billings
$4.96M · $4,964,662
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.