Chapel Hill Review

Orange County's institution invested $44,472,525 on their football teams in 2023, a 29.3% increase in funding from the previous year, according to the U.S. Department of Education.

This represents 32.5% of all money invested on sport teams at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during 2023.

The average sports expenses at Orange County have grown 103.2% 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 Team's Expenditures	% from grand total sport team expenditures
2023	$44,472,525	32.5%
2022	$34,398,323	29.3%
2021	$30,218,279	30.2%
2020	$30,541,821	28.3%
2019	$23,127,138	21.9%