What can your team actually afford?
Power 4 football · revenue sharing · what they can spend · NIL on file.
Updated August 5, 2026
Where does your school rank? Kentucky ranks #18 of 68 in annual capacity.
Kentucky: NIL budget, collective payout, football revenue, and head coach salary.
The House revenue-share cap is $20.5M in 2025–26 and $21.58M ($21,583,913) in 2026–27. Kentucky has paid out $18,000,000 of that (March 2025 to July 1, 2026, including months before House Year 1 began). That is also the NIL budget figure on this page.
FY2025 football revenue for Kentucky is $43,281,917. FY2025 football spending for Kentucky is $43,281,917. Revenue is what the program brought in. Spending is what it paid out. They are not added together.
Will Stein's pay at Kentucky is $5,500,000 as of 2026-02. The buyout is an estimated $19,950,000 as of December 2, 2025. Source: University of Kentucky — Stein FY2025–26 employment agreement PDF (posted Feb 2026).