by our College Data Analytics TeamOn this page we break down Football at Ball State University, a fall sport — team by team, topic by topic, with gender and cross-sport comparisons throughout. Ball State plays at the level of NCAA Division I-FBS as a member of Mid-American Conference.
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The Ball State men’s football team carries 120 student athletes, with an NCAA multi-year squad size of 357. The most recent cohort included 408 athletes in this program for its academic reporting.
Among the 15 varsity sports Ball State sponsors, football ranks #1 by total roster size.
The men’s football program employs 15 coaches — 1 head coach and 14 assistants. Of those, 11 are full-time and 4 part-time. The head coach is Mike Uremovich.
Across the school’s 15 sports, football ranks #1 by total coaching staff.
These numbers are reported to the U.S. Department of Education’s Equity in Athletics survey.
The Ball State men’s football program brought in $7,990,057 in revenue against $7,990,057 in expenses, right at break-even. That works out to about $11,210 in operating expense per athlete, or $1,345,209 per team.
Against the school’s 15 sports, football ranks #1 by revenue, accounting for 26% of the school’s total athletics revenue.
The men’s football team recorded an Academic Progress Rate (APR) of 987 (969 on a multi-year basis) and a Graduation Success Rate of 84%. The program kept 97% of its athletes, with 96% remaining academically eligible.
Compared with the school’s average team APR of 992, football trails the average at 987.
If Ball State places on one of our Best Schools for a Sport list, we include that ranking. To rank well, a program needs strong athletics and a quality education.
Some figures may be missing where the school did not report them.