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Texas State football finances
Published university budgets and official fundraising announcements explain the resources behind Bobcat football. Annual budget lines, capital projects and fundraising goals are presented separately.
- Football cost-center budget
- $11.50M
- Fiscal year 2027
- FY2027 football account 1719120000 contains $6,319,217 in operating expenses and $5,180,185.84 in staff salary, totaling $11,499,402.84. This calculated sum excludes costs booked to shared athletics accounts; it is not a complete football expense or NIL total.
- TXST FY2027 operating budget, printed page 62
- Football account growth
- +19.1%
- FY2026 to FY2027
- Calculated from $9,657,357.88 in FY2026 to $11,499,402.84 in FY2027 across the same operating-expense and staff-salary rows. These are budgets, not actual spending.
- TXST FY2027 operating budget, printed page 62
- Athletics fee revenue budget
- $24.92M
- Fiscal year 2027
- The FY2027 budget projects $24,915,800 in athletics fee revenue for the department across sports. It is not all assigned to football.
- TXST FY2027 operating budget, printed pages 5 and 14
- UFCU naming partnership
- $23M / 15 years
- Announced May 2024
- The university announced a 15-year, $23 million stadium naming-rights partnership in May 2024. This is the agreement total, not one year of football revenue.
- Texas State Office of the President
- Football performance center
- $37M
- Completed October 2025
- Texas State reported a $37 million renovation and expansion dedicated in October 2025. The project provides training, recovery and team spaces; capital investment is separate from annual roster compensation.
- Texas State Hillviews Magazine, April 21, 2026
- Light The Star campaign goal
- $50M
- Campaign launched October 2025
- The October 2025 campaign covers athletics facilities and the Bobcat Club Excellence Fund, including scholarships, revenue sharing and athlete support. The announced target is not a verified amount raised or a football-only allocation.
- Texas State Athletics campaign announcement
What remains undisclosed
- Individual player NIL contracts, actual payments and scholarship awards are not publicly verified in this dataset.
- A football-only revenue-sharing allocation and a complete football expense total including shared department costs have not been verified.
- The campaign goal does not establish cash collected, and the UFCU agreement total does not establish an annual payment schedule.
The roster budget below starts with your own assumptions. Published project costs and athletics totals are not player compensation pools.
Team Financial Distribution
Texas State Roster Finance Management
Build a budget across school payments, commercial NIL, sponsorships and scholarship aid. All amounts, scholarship choices and budget limits are your editable planning assumptions.
Texas State Athletics · 2026 football rosterRoster updated 2026-09-18The published roster contains 109 members. No Texas State NIL contract, actual payment, scholarship award, regulatory ceiling or future eligibility is represented by this plan. Dollar values start at $0; scholarship selections start unchecked. Zero means no planning allocation entered.
Your budget assumptions
Planned reserve: $0. Cash available for roster allocations: $0. Planned aid budget: $0; aid assigned: $0. Changing the aid estimate affects future selections; existing athlete allocations remain editable.