Alabama, which lost to Ohio State in the first round of the playoffs, spent the most on a single game. The Crimson Tide forked over $2.6 million to travel to New Orleans, bringing 908 people to the semifinal.
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Florida State spent nearly $2.4 million for its trip to the Rose Bowl.
The bottom line on expenses does not include postseason revenue from the playoffs and a team’s conference, or bills attributed to the coaches and staff members. Ultimately, the College Football Playoff committee doles out $50 million to each Power Five conference, $6 million for each team in the semifinals and $4 million for each team in a playoff access bowl.
Ohio State didn’t identify a bottom-line revenue after postseason bills were calculated. The Buckeyes did sell the most tickets of the four teams with 18,955 (85 percent of which were priced at $450) and received nearly $1.6 million in bonus payments.
Oregon’s net gain is $1.3 million off two playoff games after $4.9 million in Pac-12 reimbursements and $650,501 in credit card fees for tickets (2.5 percent of sales).
Florida State will net $144,866 off its trip to the Rose Bowl when a $2 million CFP expense stipend and $292,863 in ACC ticket sales are factored in.
Alabama will reportedly receive $2,058,400 from the playoff semifinal and postseason money from the SEC in June. The team absorbed a loss of $388,600 when it didn’t sell 2,134 tickets to its playoff semifinal game.
