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Display The Sideline's official NIL spending rankings. Updated daily with attribution.

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NIL Landscape at a Glance

$2.63B

Total D1 Spend

All listed programs

$1.77B

Power 4 Total

SEC, Big Ten, ACC, Big 12

$52M

#1 — Texas

Highest single school

283

Schools Listed

Incl. non-participants

Sport Allocation Methodology

Football~70–80% of NIL at football-heavy P4 schools
Men's Basketball~15–25% at football schools; ~80–90% at no-football schools
Women's BasketballGrowing share, especially at SEC / ACC programs
BaseballSignificant at SEC / ACC / Big 12 programs
Olympic SportsStanford, UCLA, Michigan invest above average
WrestlingIowa, Ohio State, Penn State, Iowa State allocate meaningfully
HockeyMichigan, Boston College, Wisconsin, Notre Dame are notable

Methodology & Sources

Total estimate across 365 programs: ~$2.3 billion (nil-ncaa.com, Opendorse, 2025–26)

Revenue sharing: $1.8B — Power 4 at or near $20.5M cap; others estimated at ~22% of operating revenue per nil-ncaa.com.

Third-party NIL / collectives: ~$500M. Only $166M has cleared the College Sports Commission's NIL Go portal as of March 2026, suggesting significant non-compliance with reporting requirements.

Service academies (Army, Navy, Air Force) are prohibited from any NIL activity by federal law and Department of Defense policy.

Ivy League schools benefit from exceptional alumni wealth (Wall Street, tech, law) producing meaningful commercial NIL deals. Harvard athletes have access to some of the highest-value personal brand deals of any non-revenue-sharing school.

Sources: nil-ncaa.com · Opendorse NIL at 4 (2026) · On3 NIL Valuations · CBS Sports (Dec 2025) · 247Sports · The Athletic (confidential coach survey) · Yahoo Sports / On3 (March 2026) · SI.com · blog.rallyfuel.com. All figures are estimates — NIL data remains privately held.

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