In spending on sports, how Oklahoma and Texas match up with the current SEC members

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In spending on sports, how Oklahoma and Texas match up with the current SEC members

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Three charts that show how Oklahoma and Texas will rank within the Southeastern Conference in terms of spending on athletics.

Budget figures are from the 2021-22 school year from forms submitted by each university to the U.S. Department of Education as part of Equity in Athletics disclosure:

Football budgets

▪ Alabama $75,005,971

▪ Georgia $61,722,123

▪ Florida $60,894,176

▪ LSU $59,383,456

▪ Oklahoma $54,176,637

▪ Auburn $52,254,828

▪ Texas $50,633,156

▪ Mississippi $48,670,848

▪ Texas A&M $46,083,048

▪ Arkansas $45,994,950

▪ Tennessee $39,755,021

▪ Kentucky $37,680,136

▪ South Carolina $37,272,774

▪ Vanderbilt $33,582,944

▪ Missouri $32,808,146

▪ Mississippi State $29,101,940

Men’s basketball budgets

▪ Kentucky $22,667,255

▪ Texas $15,854,899

▪ Tennessee $14,365,527

▪ Georgia $14,127,220

▪ Auburn $13,813,577

▪ Vanderbilt $13,587,388

▪ Texas A&M $13,524,047

▪ Oklahoma $12,406,055

▪ Arkansas $11,802,170

▪ South Carolina $11,792,521

▪ Mississippi $10,928,321

▪ Alabama $10,900,723

▪ Missouri $10,286,792

▪ LSU $9,849,325

▪ Florida $8,415,740

▪ Mississippi State $8,384,572

Overall athletics budgets

▪ LSU $192,770,400

▪ Texas $192,754,766

▪ Oklahoma $185,625,893

▪ Florida $177,969,655

▪ Alabama $174,715,501

▪ Georgia $159,508,178

▪ Texas A&M $157,702,310

▪ Tennessee $152,662,163

▪ Kentucky $151,254,460

▪ Arkansas $148,280,378

▪ Auburn $146,645,900

▪ South Carolina $144,815,377

▪ Mississippi $123,796,191

▪ Vanderbilt $110,941,948

▪ Missouri $107,823,990

▪ Mississippi State $100,888,464

Mark Story

Lexington Herald-Leader

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Mark Story has worked in the Lexington Herald-Leader sports department since Aug. 27, 1990, and has been a Herald-Leader sports columnist since 2001. I have covered every Kentucky-Louisville football game since 1994, every UK-U of L basketball game but three since 1996-97 and every Kentucky Derby since 1994. Support my work with a digital subscription