by our College Data Analytics TeamOn this page we break down Football at Baylor University, a fall sport — team by team, topic by topic, with gender and cross-sport comparisons throughout. Baylor competes in NCAA Division I-FBS as a member of Big 12 Conference.
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The Baylor men’s football team fields 118 athletes, with an NCAA multi-year squad size of 374. The most recent cohort included 427 athletes in this program for its academic reporting.
Among the 13 varsity sports Baylor sponsors, football sits at #2 by total roster size.
The men’s football program carries 11 coaches — 1 head coach and 10 assistants. Staffing-wise, 11 work full-time and 0 part-time. The head coach is Dave Aranda.
Across the school’s 13 sports, football sits #3 by total coaching staff.
The figures below come from the U.S. Department of Education’s Equity in Athletics survey.
The Baylor men’s football program brought in $44,260,293 in revenue against $41,050,130 in expenses, for a surplus of $3,210,163. Per athlete, that is about $62,189 in operating expense per athlete, or $7,338,342 per team.
Against the school’s 13 sports, football sits #1 by revenue, accounting for 31% of the school’s total athletics revenue.
The men’s football team earned an Academic Progress Rate (APR) of 978 (974 on a multi-year basis) and a Graduation Success Rate of 91%. Year over year, it held onto 97% of its athletes, with 98% remaining academically eligible.
Compared with the school’s average team APR of 988, football lands below the pack at 978.
When Baylor places on one of our Best Schools for a Sport list, we include that ranking. College Factual’s sports rankings weigh both athletics and academics.
Some figures may be missing where the school did not report them.