Colgate is a Patriot League program with FCS football.
The Hamilton, New York rural setting creates geographic challenges, but Colgate's wealthy private university donor base provides consistent NIL backing.
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The Sideline Staff·NIL Desk
Estimated NIL Spend
$1M
2025–26 est.
Top Sport
Football
$500K
Colgate is a Patriot League program with FCS football.
The Hamilton, New York rural setting creates geographic challenges, but Colgate's wealthy private university donor base provides consistent NIL backing.
Patriot League FCS level NIL
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Colgate ranks #304 nationally in estimated NIL (Name, Image, and Likeness) spending for the 2025–26 athletic year, with a combined budget of $1M across all sports. As a Basketball program in the Patriot, Colgatecompetes with the nation's top revenue-sharing and collective-funded programs to attract and retain top recruits, transfer-portal talent, and returning starters.
The Sideline's NIL Tracker compiles Colgate's reported NIL figures from publicly disclosed contracts, collective funding announcements, athletic department reporting, and cross-referenced industry sources. Numbers reflect estimates of Colgate's 2026 NIL budget allocations including football, men's basketball, women's basketball, baseball, softball, and Olympic sports where applicable. Football represents the largest single-sport allocation at $500K.
NIL spending at Colgate continues to evolve following the House v. NCAA settlement, which permits direct revenue sharing with student-athletes starting in the 2025–26 academic year. Colgate's figures include both the school's revenue-share allocation and third-party collective deals from boosters and alumni networks. For broader context, view our complete NIL Tracker rankings or compare Colgate directly to other programs on the NIL Compare tool.
Colgate is estimated to spend $1M on NIL in the 2025–26 athletic year, including revenue-sharing allocations and third-party collective deals. This ranks #304 nationally among Division I programs.
Colgate competes in the Patriot at the Basketball level.
Football is Colgate's top NIL-funded sport with approximately $500K in estimated 2026 spending.
Colgate's $1M NIL budget can be compared against every Patriot program and all 357 Division I schools on The Sideline's NIL Tracker.
Colgate's NIL budget combines two sources: the school's direct revenue-share allocation (capped at roughly $20.5M industry-wide following the House settlement) and third-party collective deals funded by boosters, alumni, and corporate sponsors.
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