In joining the Pac-12 Conference, Fresno State and four other Mountain West schools, plus Texas State, agreed to maintain compliant programs in football, basketball, women\u2019s basketball and women\u2019s volleyball and also compete in the sports sponsored by the conference where they field a varsity program.<\/p>\n
For the Bulldogs, that includes baseball and softball, men\u2019s and women\u2019s golf, men\u2019s and women\u2019s cross-country and track, women\u2019s soccer, women\u2019s swimming and women\u2019s tennis.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s a look at what Fresno State\u2019s fellow Pac-12 schools invest in sports programs, including coaching and staff salaries, recruiting, team travel, game guarantees and nutrition programs, according to 2025 financial reports filed with the NCAA.<\/p>\n
To be sure, investment does not guarantee championships \u2014 there is evidence of that in every conference and in every sport across the nation. But for football, the Bulldogs are last in spending and in the middle or near the bottom in every sport, except women\u2019s volleyball and women\u2019s swimming and diving. See the rankings below.<\/p>\n
Mandatory sports operating expenses<\/p>\n
FOOTBALL<\/p>\n
Colorado State – $37,791,844<\/p>\n
Boise State – $30,738,142<\/p>\n
Texas State – $23,116,059<\/p>\n
Oregon State – $23,847,864<\/p>\n
Washington State – $22,896,017<\/p>\n
San Diego State – $22,274,018<\/p>\n
Utah State – $22,101,735<\/p>\n
Fresno State – $17,970,586<\/p>\n
BASKETBALL<\/p>\n
San Diego State – $9,110,688<\/p>\n
Colorado State – $7,378,177<\/p>\n
Oregon State – $6,899,223<\/p>\n
Utah State – $6,611,877<\/p>\n
Boise State – $5,437,774<\/p>\n
Fresno State – $4,478,222<\/p>\n
Washington State – $4,381,802<\/p>\n
Texas State – $3,635,002<\/p>\n
Gonzaga – NA; reported $12 million<\/p>\n
WOMEN\u2019S BASKETBALL<\/p>\n
Oregon State – $5,002,817<\/p>\n
San Diego State – $3,748,608<\/p>\n
Washington State – $3,718,740<\/p>\n
Colorado State – $3,684,228<\/p>\n
Utah State – $3,489,452<\/p>\n
Boise State – $3,045,608<\/p>\n
Texas State – $3,031,461<\/p>\n
Fresno State – $2,943,941<\/p>\n
Gonzaga – NA; reported $5 million<\/p>\n
WOMEN\u2019S VOLLEYBALL<\/p>\n
Colorado State – $2,658,962<\/p>\n
Washington State – $1,902,895<\/p>\n
Fresno State – $1,765,782<\/p>\n
Oregon State – $1,745,206<\/p>\n
Boise State – $1,723,806<\/p>\n
San Diego State – $1,631,464<\/p>\n
Texas State – $1,614,618<\/p>\n
Utah State – $1,456,716<\/p>\n
Gonzaga – N\/A<\/p>\n
BASEBALL<\/p>\n
Oregon State – $5,895,226<\/p>\n
Washington State – $3,261,288<\/p>\n
San Diego State – $3,051,213<\/p>\n
Texas State – $2,606,507<\/p>\n
Fresno State – $2,222,293<\/p>\n
Gonzaga – N\/A<\/p>\n
Dallas Baptist – N\/A<\/p>\n
WOMEN\u2019S SOCCER<\/p>\n
Utah State – $4,634,741<\/p>\n
Washington State – $2,048,906<\/p>\n
Boise State – $1,959,014<\/p>\n
Colorado State – $1,847,320<\/p>\n
Fresno State – $1,744,589<\/p>\n
San Diego State – $1,601,916<\/p>\n
Oregon State – $1,545,108<\/p>\n
Texas State – $1,391,841<\/p>\n
Gonzaga – N\/A<\/p>\n
SOFTBALL<\/p>\n
Boise State – $2,133,240<\/p>\n
Colorado State – $1,907,858<\/p>\n
Oregon State – $1,901,150<\/p>\n
San Diego State – $1,863,959<\/p>\n
Texas State – $1,818, 247<\/p>\n
Fresno State – $1,646,294<\/p>\n
Utah State – $1,393,600<\/p>\n
MEN\u2019S CROSS COUNTRY\/TRACK<\/p>\n
Boise State – $1,667,692<\/p>\n
Washington State – $1,477,167<\/p>\n
Colorado State – $1,318,311<\/p>\n
Texas State – $1,301,851<\/p>\n
Utah State – $1,069,332<\/p>\n
Fresno State – $452,721<\/p>\n
Gonzaga – N\/A<\/p>\n
WOMEN\u2019S CROSS-COUNTRY\/TRACK<\/p>\n
Oregon State – $2,024,552<\/p>\n
Boise State – $1,885,088<\/p>\n
San Diego State – $1,784,282<\/p>\n
Texas State – $1,615,288<\/p>\n
Washington State – $1,606,783<\/p>\n
Fresno State – $1,514,864<\/p>\n
Colorado State – $1,452,891<\/p>\n
Utah State – $1,443,560<\/p>\n
Gonzaga – NA<\/p>\n
MEN\u2019S GOLF<\/p>\n
San Diego State – $2,490,790<\/p>\n
Colorado State – $910,776<\/p>\n
Oregon State – $704,559<\/p>\n
Washington State – $685,090<\/p>\n
Texas State – $606,457<\/p>\n
Fresno State – $588,516<\/p>\n
Boise State – $559,449<\/p>\n
Utah State – $530,214<\/p>\n
Gonzaga – NA<\/p>\n
WOMEN\u2019S GOLF<\/p>\n
San Diego State – $2,375,512<\/p>\n
Oregon State – $856,718<\/p>\n
Washington State – $822,101<\/p>\n
Colorado State – $818,704<\/p>\n
Texas State – $676,920<\/p>\n
Boise State – $627,986<\/p>\n
Fresno State – $606,318<\/p>\n
Gonzaga – NA<\/p>\n
WOMEN\u2019S TENNIS<\/p>\n
Boise State – $1,082,238<\/p>\n
San Diego State – $884,300<\/p>\n
Colorado State – $817,976<\/p>\n
Fresno State – $780,792<\/p>\n
Washington State – $698,987<\/p>\n
Utah State – $671,142<\/p>\n
Texas State – $641,528<\/p>\n
Gonzaga – NA<\/p>\n
WOMEN\u2019S SWIMMING AND DIVING<\/p>\n
Washington State – $2,102,282<\/p>\n
Fresno State – $1,448,666<\/p>\n
San Diego State – $1,446,861<\/p>\n
Colorado State – $1,203,565<\/p>\n
TOTAL OPERATING EXPENSES<\/p>\n
San Diego State – $104,868,538<\/p>\n
Oregon State – $100,306,455<\/p>\n
Washington State – $80,749,746<\/p>\n
Boise State – $75,586,706<\/p>\n
Colorado State – $75,239,063<\/p>\n
Utah State – $64,576,877<\/p>\n
Fresno State – $56,108,751<\/p>\n
Texas State – $55,517,565<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In joining the Pac-12 Conference, Fresno State and four other Mountain West schools, plus Texas State, agreed to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-357359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}