Southwest Baptist University football teams receive $1,460,693 in 2022

Southwest Baptist University of Bolivar, Missouri spent $1,460,693 on football teams in 2022, a 6.7% decrease from the previous year, according to the U.S. Department of Education.

The $1,460,693 spent on football teams equaled 22.4% of all sports spending at the university in 2022.

The average sport expenses at Southwest Baptist University grew 36.6% since 2010.

College football is one of the biggest sports in the U.S., with some college teams eclipsing NFL teams in terms of attendance and profit.

In 2022, after a decades-long fight, student athletes nationwide gained the right to profit from their names, likenesses, and images as a result of a flurry of new state laws and an NCAA policy change.

Year	Football teams' expenditure	% from grand total sport team expenditures
2018	$1,755,433	22.1
2019	$1,608,040	20
2020	$1,589,197	20.2
2021	$1,566,149	19.5
2022	$1,460,693	22.4