Who spends the most on total operating expenses
All reported athletics operating expenses for the fiscal year.
Texas
$206.55M · $206,554,432
Oklahoma
$152.67M · $152,674,475
Georgia
$133.94M · $133,941,585
Missouri
$109.16M · $109,158,522
Boise State
$47.85M · $47,846,748
Buffalo
$40.76M · $40,763,071
Arkansas State
$40.10M · $40,098,989
Western Michigan
$37.93M · $37,925,540
App State
$36.85M · $36,853,981
Texas State
$34.47M · $34,470,226
Georgia State
$32.63M · $32,629,661
Central Michigan
$32.54M · $32,540,008
Georgia Southern
$31.18M · $31,181,439
Ball State
$28.44M · $28,443,728
University of Nebraska Omaha
$19.94M · $19,938,433
UMBC
$17.13M · $17,129,702
UT Arlington
$15.91M · $15,913,555
Montana State University Billings
$5.37M · $5,369,207
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.