Who spends the most on total operating expenses
All reported athletics operating expenses for the fiscal year.
Oklahoma
$157.49M · $157,494,527
Georgia
$138.76M · $138,757,891
Missouri
$119.08M · $119,082,669
Oregon State
$77.03M · $77,034,653
Boise State
$51.19M · $51,188,405
Florida Atlantic
$37.39M · $37,393,763
Buffalo
$36.85M · $36,849,290
Western Michigan
$35.17M · $35,166,128
Texas State
$35.11M · $35,108,934
App State
$35.00M · $34,999,267
Georgia State
$34.06M · $34,058,748
Central Michigan
$33.64M · $33,641,127
California Polytechnic State University
$32.96M · $32,959,721
Marshall
$32.75M · $32,745,309
Georgia Southern
$29.10M · $29,099,661
New Mexico State
$28.75M · $28,754,412
Kennesaw State
$26.06M · $26,064,241
Southern Miss
$25.63M · $25,628,133
Northern Illinois
$21.81M · $21,809,635
Murray State University
$17.84M · $17,838,657
North Carolina A&T State University
$15.86M · $15,856,241
Florida Gulf Coast University
$15.85M · $15,845,215
Idaho State
$13.58M · $13,581,598
Eastern Illinois
$12.72M · $12,718,227
UMBC
$0 · $0
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.