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Top Baseball NIL Schools 2026

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Compare 31 Division I programs by The Sideline's current baseball NIL roster estimates. Sort by value, filter by conference and open any school for its full player and sport breakdown.

Baseball market
$81.5M
Programs ranked
31
Top program
Texas A&M · $4.90M
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Baseball NIL spending rankings

Baseball NIL School Market

Tracked total
$81.5M
Programs
31
Leader
Texas A&M

Showing 10 of 31 schools ranked by Baseball NIL value

1
Texas A&M

Texas A&M

SECPower 4
$4.9M

$4.9M

Baseball value

Open
2
Miami (FL)

Miami (FL)

ACCPower 4
$4.3M

$4.3M

Baseball value

Open
3
Texas

Texas

SECPower 4
$4.1M

$4.1M

Baseball value

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#4
Oklahoma State

Oklahoma State

Big 12Power 4
$4M

$4M

Baseball value

Open
#5
TCU

TCU

Big 12Power 4
$4M

$4M

Baseball value

Open
#6
LSU

LSU

SECPower 4
$4.0M

$4.0M

Baseball value

Open
#7
Mississippi State

Mississippi State

SECPower 4
$3.8M

$3.8M

Baseball value

Open
#8
Florida State

Florida State

ACCPower 4
$3.6M

$3.6M

Baseball value

Open
#9
Alabama

Alabama

SECPower 4
$3.5M

$3.5M

Baseball value

Open
#10
Tennessee

Tennessee

SECPower 4
$3.3M

$3.3M

Baseball value

Open

$3.9B

Total D1 Market

All listed programs

$2.5B

Power 4 Market

SEC · Big Ten · ACC · Big 12

$62.2M

#1 — Texas A&M

Highest single school

357

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Current data

Top program

Texas A&M leads at $62.2M

Top conference

SEC owns the deepest top-10 NIL footprint

Power 4 total

$2.5B across SEC, Big Ten, ACC, and Big 12

Tracked programs

357 D1 schools ranked with school pages

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Baseball NIL spending by school

Each figure is The Sideline's best current estimate for the active baseballroster market. It combines available public benchmarks with roster, conference and player-level inputs. It is not a school payroll, a single collective's budget or a list of verified contracts.

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