Report: Arizona football’s roster budget among lowest of power conference programs.
ArizonaLike a lot of things, building a winning college football team has become a lot more expensive in recent years. The emergence of name, image and likeness and revenue sharing has led some university athletic departments to spend tens of millions of dollars on football rosters.
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The Athletic's verdict: Arizona's budget is near the very bottom of the major conferences. College football’s most carefully guarded secret is the amount of money flowing to the players on each roster.
So we reached out to 70 sources across the sport. Estimated budgets for all 68 teams: pic.
KEY POINTS
- Report: Arizona football’s roster budget among lowest of power conference programs.
- A new report by The Athletic seeks to change that by providing roster cost estimates for power conference programs.
- The Athletic reached out to more than 70 sources around college football to get as much detail as possible on what each program spent on its 2026 budget.
- According to the publication, the UA is spending an estimated $13-18 million on this year's team, which puts Arizona higher than just four programs: Iowa State, Cincinnati, Duke and Boston College.