How much Alabama football players spent in first year of unlimited meals

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Meals and snacks cost a total of $838,187 (or 0.58 percent of the department's total expenses).

Tide football team accounted for 61.2 percent of the money spent on meals.

The total: $512,656.

12 scholarship players on Avery Johnson's team got an average of $5,725 per player.

For football, that number was $6,031 per athlete.

These totals don't account for meals on the road traveling to games.

FOI: Bama football brought in record $103.9 million as athletics profit jumps

Football accounts for 63.3 percent of Alabama's athletics revenue. Men's basketball is next at 8.8 percent of the total income.

The biggest jump from 2015 came in the media rights category. Alabama made $42.4 million in 2016, up 21.3 percent from the previous year.