Liberty University doesn't move up to the Football Bowl Subdivision for another year, but according to figures from a Department of Education web site, the Flames already have an FBS budget.
The Lynchburg school spent a little more than $45 million on athletics in 2015-2016, the last year for which the Department of Education has numbers. To put this in perspective, that's more than Boise State, New Mexico and every school in Conference USA, including Old Dominion, spent that year.
It was the largest budget in the country for a Football Championship Subdivision school, nearly twice as large as the budget at FCS powerhouse North Dakota State.