Big Ten's financial gap widens

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What we learned from the finances of the Big Ten’s first year as an 18-team conference

Big Ten athletic departments range from juggernauts to those that rely heavily on subsidies, with disparity growing rapidly among them.

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According to financial statements for the 2025 fiscal year (July 1, 2024, to June 30, 2025) submitted by the league’s 16 public schools, which were obtained by The Athletic through state open-records laws...

Ohio State generated more than $336 million in the 2025 fiscal year to top the conference’s revenue leaderboard, $60 million clear of Michigan ($275.8 million). Penn State generated...

At the bottom of the Big Ten, Maryland reported just $124 million in revenue, $3.8 million less than it did last year...

As a group, the league’s 16 public athletic departments reported about...

 

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For those interested, on Gopher Gridiron Radio podcast (free on iheart) Ryan Burns goes into a deep dive on this.

The thing with this is, this was for last school year and so House rev share hadn't hit yet, so is wondering how the heck Coyle is going to balance the budget for the next year, which is this current school year.

He didn't talk about it, so wondering if he forgot, but didn't the school institute a new fee for athletics? Thinking that will have to be the big input, beyond whatever the media/TV rights input grows by.