What can your team actually afford?
Power 4 football · revenue sharing · what they can spend · NIL on file.
Updated September 17, 2026
Where does your school rank? Texas ranks #1 of 68 in annual capacity.
Texas: 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. Texas has paid out $17,999,479.04 of that (July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026). That is also the NIL budget figure on this page. A separate payment window: $4,808,560.63 (July 1, 2026 to August 31, 2026). Shown separately, not added to the payout above.
FY2025 football revenue for Texas is $171,892,714. FY2025 football spending for Texas is $70,405,628. Revenue is what the program brought in. Spending is what it paid out. They are not added together.
Steve Sarkisian's pay at Texas is $11,050,000 as of February 20, 2025. The buyout is $50,150,000 if fired after the 2026 season. Source: CBS Sports (Robby Kalland, Oct. 17, 2026).
Texas's collective Texas One Fund Inc paid $14,540,650 in tax year 2024, $11,717,673 in tax year 2023, and $423,157 in tax year 2022 (Form 990). Those come from the collective's tax return, not the school's House payments or football revenue.