The Cougars are spending more on recruiting but so are their peers

USA Today compiled a database showing how much each FBS school spent on recruiting in the 2012-13 school year.

Today, one day before national signing day, the newspaper made its findings available online. It shows that while the Cougars have spent significantly more on recruiting in recent years, Washington State still ranks No. 11 in the Pac-12 when it comes to recruiting expenditures.

The Cougars spent $363, 683, more than only California ($313,329) and far behind conference frontrunners Washington ($709,212), Oregon ($674,755) and Arizona State ($660, 299).

But WSU does have one of the fastest-growing recruiting budgets, seeing an increase in spending of 92.9 percent since the 2008-2009 school year, more than any other conference schools besides UW (184.3 percent), ASU (159.2 percent) and Utah (117 percent).

Spending on recruiting appears to be a good investment since the schools ranked in the bottom three in overall recruiting budget (Cal, WSU and Colorado) still spent the most on recruiting per win on the field.

Stanford and USC, which likely spend quite a bit on recruiting, are not included in these lists because as private schools they are not required to disclose the relevant figures.

You can see the database of all the FBS teams and search by school or conference here: USA Today .