Conference Breakdown Table

Paying for a football program costs much more than any other individual sport in collegiate athletics, we already knew that. To illustrate this fact and to see the extent, here is a breakdown of each school by conference in the second-biggest money sport. We have listed the schools in order of how much money they spend on men's basketball in comparison to the respective football programs.

For example, Duke is the closest to spending an equal amount on basketball as football, with the $13.87 million in basketball expenses being 88.1 percent of the money spent on the Blue Devils' football program.

Only schools with FBS football programs are included and we'll group Notre Dame in the Big East, since it takes part in Big East basketball.

All figures are in millions of dollars. Percent means the percentage of money spent on men's basketball as compared to football, and expenses listed are only men's basketball.

SEC

Source: U.S. Department of Education's Equity in Athletics report for the 2008-09 school year
School	Percent	Expenses
Kentucky	65.0	$8.61
Vanderbilt	49.3	$7.00
Arkansas	36.2	$6.63
Florida	35.4	$8.10
Georgia	31.7	$6.29
Mississippi St.	28.9	$3.72
Ole Miss	26.2	$2.50
South Carolina	25.8	$5.13
Tennessee	23.7	$5.46
LSU	20.9	$4.76
Alabama	18.8	$4.98
Auburn	15.6	$4.51

Big Ten

Source: U.S. Department of Education's Equity in Athletics report for the 2008-09 school year
School	Percent	Expenses
Indiana	58.6	$6.94
Michigan St.	56.9	$9.03
Minnesota	55.2	$5.11
Illinois	45.4	$4.77
Purdue	37.1	$4.70
Michigan	24.6	$4.45
Wisconsin	23.9	$5.44
Northwestern	23.6	$3.72
Penn State	23.0	$4.40
Iowa	16.5	$4.44
Ohio State	14.5	$4.69

Big 12

Source: U.S. Department of Education's Equity in Athletics report for the 2008-09 school year
School	Percent	Expenses
Kansas	61.5	$8.21
Baylor	42.1	$4.59
Oklahoma St.	41.3	$5.16
Texas A&M	38.6	$6.21
Texas	34.9	$7.89
Kansas St.	32.8	$4.60
Colorado	30.2	$3.95
Iowa State	29.7	$4.29
Missouri	28.8	$4.52
Texas Tech	27.4	$3.83
Oklahoma	25.7	$5.40
Nebraska	22.0	$3.96

Pac-10

Source: U.S. Department of Education's Equity in Athletics report for the 2008-09 school year
School	Percent	Expenses
Arizona	48.6	$6.13
Washington St.	38.9	$3.48
UCLA	38.0	$6.99
Stanford	31.2	$4.22
Oregon	28.3	$4.50
Oregon State	26.5	$3.32
Washington	25.7	$4.77
Arizona State	25.2	$4.34
California	24.8	$4.75
USC	22.0	$4.71

ACC

Source: U.S. Department of Education's Equity in Athletics report for the 2008-09 school year
School	Percent	Expenses
Duke	88.1	$13.87
North Carolina	48.6	$7.48
Maryland	41.7	$4.89
Virginia	41.6	$7.18
N.C. State	34.0	$3.74
Wake Forest	31.1	$4.18
Boston College	29.2	$5.68
Georgia Tech	27.3	$4.41
Florida State	25.6	$4.28
Virginia Tech	24.5	$4.48
Miami	22.8	$4.80
Clemson	21.8	$4.11

Big East

Source: U.S. Department of Education's Equity in Athletics report for the 2008-09 school year
School	Percent	Expenses
Louisville	74.7	$8.62
UConn	49.2	$6.79
Syracuse	43.4	$7.78
Cincinnati	38.1	$4.01
West Virginia	37.4	$5.96
Pittsburgh	35.7	$5.33
South Florida	28.1	$2.92
Notre Dame	23.3	$4.38
Rutgers	19.2	$3.79