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Key notes in that article: Few people inside a college football program building know their school’s exact numbers. And even if they do, many don’t feel comfortable sharing it, even anonymously. Even if they do talk to a reporter, coaches will often undersell their own budgets. This may be to temper fans’ expectations or to keep their players from asking for even more money. School administrators, on the other hand, have the opposite incentive. They want people to think their number is higher than it really is, which makes them look like great fundraisers. And in the background, seemingly everyone associated with a program loves to tell you how much their competitors have. This is especially the case if they believe a rival program has considerably more money than they do — so they can go back to their bosses or boosters and say, “See? We need more.” We examined their figures more skeptically when developing our estimates. That said, we believe our ranges represent the best and most detailed information available today.