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Power 4 only · House share · capacity · booked NIL. Pending stays empty.
Kentucky: 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. Kentucky has paid out $18,000,000 of that so far (2025-03 to 2026-07-01). That is also the NIL budget figure on this page.
FY2025 football spending for Kentucky is $43,281,917. That figure is spending, not football revenue. We don't have a reported football revenue figure for Kentucky yet.
Will Stein's pay at Kentucky is $5,500,000 as of 2026-02. The buyout is an estimated $19,950,000 as of December 2, 2025. Source: University of Kentucky — Stein FY2025–26 employment agreement PDF (posted Feb 2026).