Auburn and Tennessee Spend Twice as Much as LSU on Football Recruiting

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Football Recruiting

Here's what Football Bowl Subdivision schools told the NCAA they spent to recruit football players during the 2012-13 school year

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No public school spent more on football recruiting than the SEC's Tennessee, with an average of nearly $1.3 million annually — 36% more than any other major college program. Tennessee was the only school over that span to average a seven-figure expenditure for recruiting expenses, which include transportation as well as lodging and meals for both recruits on school visits and coaches on recruiting trips.

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/recruiting

Alabama SEC $983,721
Arkansas SEC $615,252
Auburn SEC $1,384,188
Florida SEC $687,227
Georgia SEC $581,531
Kentucky SEC $504,421
LSU SEC $577,442
Mississippi SEC $557,208
Mississippi State SEC $468,536
Missouri SEC $631,630
South Carolina SEC $302,249
Tennessee SEC $1,292,544
Texas A&M SEC $401,167

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As a new class of recruits begins formalizing school choices on Wednesday's national signing day, a USA TODAY Sports analysis also finds that in football recruiting budgets, as in many other ways, the gulf between the Football Bowl Subdivision's haves and have-nots is growing substantially.

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