(06-08-2015 08:09 PM)chargeradio Wrote:  IfUMass could get by with only 5 home games regularly, having the extra road game could be very lucrative. Getting paid as much as $1.2 MM for a road game for 3 road games and having to pay out only a fraction of that for an FCS team (assuming the other 8 games are home/home deals) to visit should put UMass about $3 MM ahead each year just on game guarantees. If UMass could get a 13th game for 2016 that would be icing on the cake. If UMass played in the Sun Belt it would be required to play a sixth home game every two years.

Bamford already said there will not be a 13th game in 2016...which is a smart move. The schedule is already going to be brutal, with tough opponents to start the season and a month straight of travel to end it.