According to an NJ Advance Media analysis, six of the 13 Big Ten schools whose 2017 Fiscal Year athletics reports are publicly available lost money during the 2016-17 school year (Northwestern, as a private school, doesn't make the fiscal-year report it submits to the NCAA available).
It's no secret that the bottom line in Rutgers' financial ledger has matched its school color every year this century. In fact, the Rutgers athletics department's deficit is $399.3 million since 2003-04.
But Rutgers is far from the only Big Ten school that's in the red.
