CLEVELAND, Ohio - Big Ten sports are big money - close to $1.7 billion of it in a given year.

No Big Ten athletic department raises and spends more money than Ohio State and Michigan - approaching $200 million each. But none of the programs are small.

So much money is collected from TV, ticket sales and donors that - in a rarity in college sports - some of the Big Ten's biggest athletic programs operate without any subsidy from student fees or other non-athletic university sports.

A big part of the bill is the cost of scholarships for student-athletes. But more money is spent on coaches than on those scholarships.

Financial reports schools are required to file with the NCAA provide some insight. Cleveland.com gathered the latest reports submitted within the last few months, for the 2016-2017 school year.

Scroll below for details about each program.

The schools are ranked in order of total athletic revenue. Below the rankings are side-by-side comparisons for several categories. Details are provided for 13 schools. The 14th, Northwestern, declined to provide its financial report to cleveland.com.

One note about the coaching pay and benefits listed: totals include wages, bonuses, allowances, speaking fees, retirement stipends, memberships, media income, tuition reimbursement and earned deferred compensation. And, if a job change occurred, totals for both coaches are combined.

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No. 13 Purdue - $84.8 million

Total revenue: $84,841,133

Ticket revenue: $9,222,191

Contributions: $21,679,168

Subsidy from school or student fees: $0

Sports teams: 20

Athletes: 483

Scholarship: $11,223,518 spent on 249.95 scholarships split among 365 athletes.

Coaching pay and benefits: $16,105,191

Head football coach: $2,939,352

Head men's basketball coach: $2,789,022

Head women's basketball coach: $792,625

Next highest paid women's head coach: Volleyball, $271,875

Staff pay and benefits: $17,240,179

Severance to coaches or staff: $2,052,290

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No. 12 Maryland - $94.9 million

Total revenue: $94,881,357

Ticket revenue: $15,291,690

Contributions: $12,281,532

Subsidy from school or student fees: $14,473,659 included in revenue listed above.

Sports teams: 20

Athletes: 517

Scholarship: $16,269,593 spent on 286.29 scholarships split among 436 athletes.

Coaching pay and benefits: $17,345,547

Head football coach: $2,520,882

Head men's basketball coach: $2,747,270

Head women's basketball coach: $1,209,563

Next highest paid women's head coach: Field hockey, $241,025

Staff pay and benefits: $16,318,293

Severance to coaches or staff: $156,330

Note: Recent additions Maryland, Nebraska and Rutgers did not yet yet receive full shares of Big Ten revenue during this reporting period.

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No. 11 - Rutgers - $96.9 million

Total revenue: $96,883,027

Ticket revenue: $12,824,201

Contributions: $7,128,280

Subsidy from school or student fees: $33,087,478 included in revenue listed above.

Sports teams: 24

Athletes: 628

Scholarship: $14,006,618 spent on 300.79 scholarships split among 498 athletes.

Coaching pay and benefits: $16,019,723

Head football coach: $2,391,994

Head men's basketball coach: $1,947,299

Head women's basketball coach: $1,138,353

Next highest paid women's head coach: Soccer, $238,244

Staff pay and benefits: $17,411,145

Severance to coaches or staff: $5,416,948

Note: Recent additions Maryland, Nebraska and Rutgers did not yet receive full shares of Big Ten revenue during this reporting period.

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No. 10 Illinois - $97.4 million

Total revenue: $97,447,731

Ticket revenue: $12,825,263

Contributions: $23,831,522

Subsidy from school or student fees: $3,281,700 included in revenue listed above.

Sports teams: 21

Athletes: 454

Scholarship: $12,532,723 spent on 260.74 scholarships split among 474 members of various teams. (Note: Illinois reported more athletes receiving at least partial scholarships by sport than the total number of unique athletes at the school; some may have received scholarships for more than one team.)

Coaching pay and benefits: $15,125,182

Head football coach: $3,197,713

Head men's basketball coach: $1,690,563

Head women's basketball coach: $499,314

Next highest paid women's head coach: Volleyball, $265,671

Staff pay and benefits: $16,272,679

Severance to coaches or staff: $1,228,113

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No. 9 Indiana - $106.1 million

Total revenue: $106,139,192

Ticket revenue: $18,089,310

Contributions: $22,702,581

Subsidy from school or student fees: $2,569,044 included in revenue listed above.

Sports teams: 24

Athletes: 633

Scholarship: $15,866,381 spent on 306.5 scholarships split among 482 athletes.

Coaching pay and benefits: $18,695,723

Head football coach: $2,518,503

Head men's basketball coach: $3,797,799

Head women's basketball coach: $660,614

Next highest paid women's head coach: Volleyball, $226,969

Staff pay and benefits: $18,906,314

Severance to coaches or staff: $3,092,292

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No. 8 Minnesota - $116.4 million

Total revenue: $116,376,862

Ticket revenue: $20,500,383

Contributions: $14,018,855

Subsidy from school or student fees: $14,817,134 included in revenue listed above.

Sports teams: 25

Athletes: 740

Scholarship: $12,154,640 spent on 331.67 scholarships split among 539 athletes.

Coaching pay and benefits: $20,826,744

Head football coach: $3,123,897

Head men's basketball coach: $2,480,676

Head women's basketball coach: $696,177

Next highest paid women's head coach: Volleyball, $553,614

Staff pay and benefits: $18,187,684

Severance to coaches or staff: $3,902,782

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No. 7 Nebraska - $120.2 million

Total revenue: $120,205,090

Ticket revenue: $37,258,695

Contributions: $26,409,172

Subsidy from school or student fees: $0

Sports teams: 24

Athletes: 589

Scholarship: $11,836,616 spent on 300.49 scholarships split among 465 athletes.

Coaching pay and benefits: $17,953,170

Head football coach: $2,929,143

Head men's basketball coach: $2,243,153

Head women's basketball coach: $627,929

Next highest paid women's head coach: Volleyball, $794,214

Staff pay and benefits: $24,006,816

Severance to coaches or staff: $2,013,155

Note: Recent addition Nebraska did not receive a full Big Ten revenue share until 2017-2018, a year after this reporting period.

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No. 6 Michigan State - $126 million

Total revenue: $126,021,377

Ticket revenue: $26,802,465

Contributions: $31,887,848

Subsidy from school or student fees: $901,057 included in revenue listed above.

Sports teams: 25

Athletes: 713

Scholarship: $15,090,350 spent on 328.8 scholarships split among 513 athletes.

Coaching pay and benefits: $20,930,050

Head football coach: $4,318,307

Head men's basketball: $4,965,649

Head women's basketball coach: $711,956

Next highest paid women's head coach: Volleyball, $289,750

Staff pay and benefits: $17,925,944

Severance to coaches or staff: $48,443

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No. 5 Iowa - $130.7 million

Total revenue: $130,681,467

Ticket revenue: $28,253,233

Contributions: $29,616,227

Subsidy from school or student fees: $650,000 included in revenue listed above.

Sports teams: 24

Athletes: 682

Scholarship: $12,623,711 spent on 297.81 scholarships split among 467 athletes.

Coaching pay and benefits: $21,919,960

Head football coach: $5,759,942

Head men's basketball coach: $2,387,744

Head women's basketball coach: $971,503

Next highest paid women's coach: Volleyball, $307,568

Staff pay and benefits: $19,978,232

Severance: $3,895,387

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No. 4 Wisconsin - $143.4 million

Total revenue: $143,420,668

Ticket revenue: $28,773,188

Contributions: $21,964,082

Subsidy from school or student fees: $2,843,000 included in revenue listed above.

Sports teams: 24

Athletes: 775

Scholarship: $16,324,620 spent on 340.95 scholarships split among 517 athletes.

Coaching pay and benefits: $18,437,364

Head football coach pay: $3,098,870

Head men's basketball coach: $2,037,933

Head women's basketball coach: $723,828

Next highest paid women's head coach: Ice hockey, $391,236

Staff pay and benefits: $31,212,599

Severance to coaches or staff: $628,669

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No. 3 Penn State - $144 million

Total revenue: $144,017,055

Ticket revenue: $35,500,704

Contributions: $30,779,975

Subsidy from school or student fees: $0

Sports teams: 31

Athletes: 820

Scholarship: $20,084,737 spent on 370.21 scholarships split among 940 athletes.

Coaching pay and benefits: $25,458,059

Head football coach: Declined to release.

Head men's basketball coach: Declined to release.

Head women's basketball coach: Declined to release.

Next highest paid women's head coach: Declined to release.

Staff pay and benefits: $25,247,339

Severance to coaches or staff: $188,066

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No. 2 Michigan - $185.2 million

Total revenue: $185,173,184

Ticket revenue: $55,327,815

Contributions: $38,103,585

Subsidy from school or student fees: $280,647 included in revenue listed above. But sports generated more than enough money to cover its bills. The athletic department transferred to the school more than $4 million for non-athletic scholarships and other purposes outside the athletic department.

Sports teams: 29

Athletes: 905

Scholarship: $25,123,276 spent on 384.93 scholarships split among 624 athletes.

Coaching pay and benefits: $28,816,517

Head football coach: $6,081,941

Head men's basketball coach: $3,570,795

Head women's basketball coach: $692,748

Next highest paid women's head coach: Softball: $396,991

Staff pay and benefits: $31,686,667

Severance to coaches or staff: $1,061,844

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No. 1 Ohio State - $185.4 million

Total revenue: $185,409,602

Ticket revenue: $61,560,351

Contributions: $37,612,937

Subsidy from school or student fees: $0

Sports teams: 36

Athletes: 1,011

Scholarships: $20,071,376 spent on 442.33 scholarships split among 730 athletes.

Coaching pay and benefits: $31,837,126

Head football coach: $5,481,843

Head men's basketball coach: $3,781,254

Head women's basketball coach: $1,170,989

Next highest paid women's head coach: Rowing, $388,299

Staff pay and benefits: $32,572,430

Severance to coaches or staff: $241,200

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Side-by-side ranking for revenue

Ohio State ($185.4 million) edged out Michigan ($185.2 million) for the top spot in athletic department revenue.

Sports at both Ohio State and Michigan generated more enough money to cover the athletic bills.

On the high-end for subsidies - included in the revenue totals shown above - were Rutgers ($11.8 million in student fees and $21.3 million in other school support) and Maryland ($12 million in student fees and $2.5 million in other university support).

Both of those schools are recent additions to the Big Ten and do not yet receive full shares of conference revenue.

Scroll below to see wide a wide difference there is in ticket revenue and money from donors.

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The biggest gates

Ticket revenue at Ohio State ($61.6 million) and Michigan ($55.3 million) dwarfed the totals for all other schools in the league.

Next highest was Nebraska at $37.2 million. Purdue was last at $9.2 million.

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Corporate, individual and club donations

Athletic departments at Michigan ($38.1 million) and Ohio State ($37.6 million) each raised nearly $40 million in donations from corporations, individuals, clubs and others during the 2016-2017 school year - five times what Rutgers ($7.1 million) reported raising.

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The most teams and athletes

Ohio State fields 36 sports teams, more than any other Big Ten school. A league-high 1,011 athletes were on those Buckeye teams during 2016-2017.

Penn State fields 31 teams, the second most, and Michigan is third with 29 teams.

On the low side, Purdue and Maryland each field 20 teams.

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The cost of scholarships

The value of athletic scholarships provided by Michigan ($25.1 million) topped the Big Ten. The amount is a product of two factors: the number of athletes on scholarship and the cost of attending each school.

Scholarships are a big expense item.

But each school spent more on coaches pay and benefits than the value of scholarships for their student athletes.

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Spending on coaches

Ohio State tops the Big Ten in providing $31.8 million in salaries and benefits to its head coaches and assistant coaches, double that of Illinois.

There are too reasons: Ohio State pays more than most Big Ten schools and it has the most teams.

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Head coach ranking

This may come as a surprise to Ohio State football fans, but Buckeyes coach Urban Meyer was third in the Big Ten for pay and benefits reported for the 2016-2017 school year, behind Iowa's Kirk Ferentz and Michigan's Jim Harbaugh.

Harbaugh's pay, bonuses and benefits totaled $6.1 million. Ferentz received $5.8 million and Meyer $5.5 million.

As noted earlier, the totals are what each school reported to the NCAA for coaching pay and benefits during the 2016-17 school year. This includes wages, bonuses, allowances, speaking fees, retirement stipends, memberships, media income, tuition reimbursement and earned deferred compensation. And, if there coaching change, the totals are for both coaches during the time period.

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The pay scale for women's basketball coaches

Basketball is the top-paying position for women's head coaches in the Big Ten, though just three jobs topped $1 million in salary and benefits: those held by Vivian Stringer at Rutgers ($1.14 million), Kevin McGuff at Ohio State ($1.17 million) and Brenda Frese at Maryland ($1.21 million.)

Rich Exner, data analysis editor for cleveland.com, writes about numbers on a variety of topics. Follow on Twitter @RichExner.

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Previously: Which schools pay the most for football assistant coaches?

See earlier story at this link, ranking the Big Ten schools for how much they pay their assistant football coaches.