Two College Football Playoff trips for national champion Ohio State amounted to a staggering $4.4 million, and Oregon's two trips cost $3.8 million, according to NCAA postseason expense reports of all four playoff teams obtained from the universities, CBSSports reported.
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.