Thanks to whoever found the site that describes all NCAA schools' revenue and spending details.
https://ope.ed.gov/athletics/#institution/search
Once again, though, one thing that stands out more than any other is how differently schools account for athletics - both revenues and spending. They all have to report the same items, but they are allowed to show some revenues and expenses as "not allocated to a specific team".
It's hard to imagine that Texas could spend more than $76 million in one year that they couldn't figure out how to allocate to a particular sport or team. Or Ohio State the $63 million they report. By contrast, Alabama "only" fails to allocate $37 million of its athletics spending.
But, for what it's worth, here is what some of the perennial football powers reported spending on football in 2015-16 (numbers in parentheses are $millions):
Alabama (56)
Florida State (42)
Auburn (42)
Notre Dame (39)
Georgia (39)
Ohio State (37)
Michigan ((36)
Oklahoma (36)
Clemson (35)
Florida (32)
Washington (32)
USC (31)
Wisconsin (31)
LSU (30)
Texas (30)
Texas A&M (30)
Nebraska (27)
Oregon (24)
Stanford (24)
Louisville (23)
Oklahoma State (19)
Georgia Tech (17)
Kansas (14)
Those last three are included just to show the disparity between the big spenders and their poor cousins. It's easy to see why Kansas is so bad, but what about Oklahoma State and Georgia Tech? Don't they greatly outperform their resources?
And, frankly, I am at a loss to imagine what Alabama is spending all that money on. I know they pay Saban the big bucks, but they report total salaries, not just for football but for all sports combined, both men's and women's, of $19 million. Even if $13 million of that were for football, that means they spent $43 million on something else they were willing to claim was football related.
To put that in perspective, if all of it were for salaries for non-coaching personnel, and the average salary and benefits for those people were $60K a year, that would be enough to have a staff of 700 people - just for football! Apply that same estimating method to what Texas doesn't allocate to any particular sport, and you have an athletics staff of nearly 1,300.
How is that possible?