{"id":699479,"date":"2026-01-23T18:12:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T18:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/699479\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T18:12:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T18:12:14","slug":"oregon-ducks-athletics-shows-net-revenue-gains-in-football-overall-during-2025-fiscal-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/699479\/","title":{"rendered":"Oregon Ducks’ athletics shows net revenue gains in football, overall during 2025 fiscal year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oregon<\/a> athletics reported a significant increase in revenue and expenses for fiscal year 2025, achieving yet another surplus thanks in large part to an influx of cash from the Big Ten\u2019s media rights distributions.<\/p>\n

The Ducks brought in $185.4 million in revenue for FY25, and had $182.7 million in expenses, according to records released annually by the university. FY25 ended June 30.<\/p>\n

Compare those numbers to FY24, where Oregon had $169.2 million in operating revenue and $167.2 million in expenses \u2014 an increase year over year of 9.6% and 9.3%, respectively.<\/p>\n

Football was the only Oregon sport to generate revenue. Football had net revenue of $58.8 million; it produced $119.6 million in revenue, offset by $60.8 million in expenses. In its final year in the Pac-12, Oregon football produced net revenue of $55.3 million.<\/p>\n

All other Duck sports operated at a loss, including men\u2019s basketball at a more than $2.4 million net loss. Men\u2019s and women\u2019s track and field lost more than $6 million. <\/p>\n

Oregon\u2019s financial numbers were released as part of the school\u2019s annual filing with the NCAA, which requires institutions to report fiscal year revenue and expenses by January 15 each year.<\/p>\n

Here is the report:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Revenue<\/p>\n

The biggest difference from a revenue standpoint is in media rights. Oregon received $28.2 million in that category for FY24 in the final year of the Pac-12. That is up to $49.1 million in FY25 \u2014 a nearly 74% increase now that the Ducks are in the Big Ten.<\/p>\n

And that is with just a half-share of media rights distributions until 2030, which Oregon and Washington both agreed to when they joined the conference.<\/p>\n

But how did the Ducks make up the media rights gap in the prior year, and still operate as one of the top athletic departments in the nation? Contributions.<\/p>\n

Oregon generated $33 million in contributions in FY25. But in making up for a much lower media rights number the previous year, FY24, the Ducks received an eye-popping $56.8 million in contributions.<\/p>\n

The details of which entities or individuals these donations came from is not publicly disclosed.<\/p>\n

Conference distributions, not including media, were a big difference as well. Oregon operated at a loss in non-media and non-postseason conference distributions in FY24, losing $8.2 million in its final fiscal year in the Pac-12. That re-entered the green in FY25 at +$1.6 million \u2014 a nearly $9 million difference in Oregon\u2019s first fiscal year in the Big Ten.<\/p>\n

The Ducks enjoyed a year-over-year increase of just under $2.5 million in postseason conference distributions in FY25.<\/p>\n

Expenses<\/p>\n

Oregon saw a modest increase in some key expenses in FY25, with a new line item that gives a window into the future operating procedures of the department in the revenue sharing era of college sports.<\/p>\n

Oregon spent $41.6 million on coaching salaries, benefits and bonuses in FY25, a more than $3.5 million increase over the previous fiscal year. Support staff and administrative employees made $31.6 million, up nearly $4 million from FY24.<\/p>\n

The Ducks saw a significant decrease in overhead and administrative expenses in FY25: $14.1 million compared to $19.7 million in FY24.<\/p>\n

Team travel rose in cost, as expected in navigating road trips in the Big Ten: $10.9 million in FY25 compared to $8.7 million in FY24.<\/p>\n

One new expense that did not appear in FY24 is facility maintenance and operations ($6.3 million), presumably going towards the new football facilities currently under construction in Eugene.<\/p>\n

Speaking of football investment, Oregon spent $60.8 million of its nearly $86 million in sport-specific operating expenses on football \u2014 a nearly $7 million increase in football spending over FY24.<\/p>\n

Just over $14 million was spent on men\u2019s basketball and $6.7 million on women\u2019s basketball in FY25.<\/p>\n

Those numbers do not include any spending on direct student-athlete compensation through revenue sharing, or through outside NIL which is not part of the athletic department\u2019s budget and is protected from disclosure by state law.<\/p>\n

Next year\u2019s filing is likely to include revenue sharing numbers. Oregon can spend up to $20.5 million in revenue sharing for fiscal year 2026. <\/p>\n

The revenue share line item is $0 this year, but that is because the House settlement didn\u2019t go into effect until July 1 \u2014 the first day of FY2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oregon athletics reported a significant increase in revenue and expenses for fiscal year 2025, achieving yet another surplus…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[331,1379,7,575,1382],"class_list":{"0":"post-699479","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-college-football","9":"tag-ducks-football","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-oregon-ducks","12":"tag-oregon-football"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115945769973379046","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}