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College Football's $175 Million "Buy Game" Economy
College football’s version of the gig economy gets rolling Thursday, as teams across the country begin the annual ritual of playing one-time, non-conference games in exchange for huge payouts.

This season, well over $175 million will change hands just for teams getting on the field for these so-called “guarantee” games, according to an analysis of more than 275 contracts for matchups involving teams in the NCAA’s top-level Bowl Subdivision.


https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nc...131488002/
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Reagan economics
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There should be a ranking of most money paid to teams who won.
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I'm feeling pretty good about the $1.3 million we're getting from Liberty
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Yep, "buy games" are just the indirect way that some of that P5 CFP and media money trickles down to the G5 and FCS. And occasionally from the G5 to FCS as well.

E.g., HBCU Southern University is getting $500,000 and 375 complimentary tickets to be TCU's opening game victory on Saturday.

My Bulls are paying Elon $400,000 to play before empty seats at Ray-Jay.

And heck, even among the richer and poorer P5: Oregon State is getting $1.7 million from Ohio State for a one-off trip to Columbus.

It's the economy of football. 07-coffee3
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(08-30-2018 09:17 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  It's the economy of football. 07-coffee3

Also men's basketball.

Texas Southern opened its 2017-18 basketball season with 13 straight non-conference road games. They went coast to coast to collect buy game money, including games at Gonzaga, Washington State, Kansas, Ohio State, Syracuse, Oregon, Clemson, TCU, and Baylor. TSU lost all 13 of those games. They bounced back in conference play, won the SWAC tournament, and then won their First Four game in the NCAA tournament before losing their next game to Xavier.
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Why is Eastern Michigan paying somebody to play them? They don't get enough revenue for their home games as it is.
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(08-30-2018 10:55 AM)Wedge Wrote:  
(08-30-2018 09:17 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  It's the economy of football. 07-coffee3

Also men's basketball.

Texas Southern opened its 2017-18 basketball season with 13 straight non-conference road games. They went coast to coast to collect buy game money, including games at Gonzaga, Washington State, Kansas, Ohio State, Syracuse, Oregon, Clemson, TCU, and Baylor. TSU lost all 13 of those games. They bounced back in conference play, won the SWAC tournament, and then won their First Four game in the NCAA tournament before losing their next game to Xavier.
And, they did it all while riding a bus. One 13 day stretch saw them play @ Oregon, Baylor, Wyoming, TCU, and BYU. That's a lot of mileage in 13 days.
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Its kinda odd that they consider the Rice vs Houston game a "buy game". Its actually just a OOC home-and-home.
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(08-30-2018 11:26 AM)ken d Wrote:  Why is Eastern Michigan paying somebody to play them? They don't get enough revenue for their home games as it is.

Yes, but it would be even more costly to play a game on the road, so it is worth it to pay.

When a home team pays for someone to come, factored in to that is their cost if they had to play a game on the road instead, and also the opportunity cost lost by the road team if they had played at home.
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The FCS buy games are the worst part of college football IMO. There are too few touch points among FBS schools as it is.

Keep the FCS buy games, but as exhibition games that don't count towards the win-loss records, stats, bowl eligibility or red-shirt eligibility.

But, nobody will make a move, because everyone else is doing it and padding their position. It would take a FBS-wide rule change.
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(08-30-2018 09:17 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  Yep, "buy games" are just the indirect way that some of that P5 CFP and media money trickles down to the G5 and FCS. And occasionally from the G5 to FCS as well.

E.g., HBCU Southern University is getting $500,000 and 375 complimentary tickets to be TCU's opening game victory on Saturday.

My Bulls are paying Elon $400,000 to play before empty seats at Ray-Jay.

And heck, even among the richer and poorer P5: Oregon State is getting $1.7 million from Ohio State for a one-off trip to Columbus.

It's the economy of football. 07-coffee3

A list of all the P5’s bought out by another P5 would be interesting. Can’t imagine the PAC is happy with a school agreeing to be bought out.
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(08-30-2018 10:55 AM)Wedge Wrote:  
(08-30-2018 09:17 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  It's the economy of football. 07-coffee3

Also men's basketball.

Texas Southern opened its 2017-18 basketball season with 13 straight non-conference road games. They went coast to coast to collect buy game money, including games at Gonzaga, Washington State, Kansas, Ohio State, Syracuse, Oregon, Clemson, TCU, and Baylor. TSU lost all 13 of those games. They bounced back in conference play, won the SWAC tournament, and then won their First Four game in the NCAA tournament before losing their next game to Xavier.

And it’s worked out for TSU. 4 NCAA’s in 5 years by playing against better competition for 2 months.
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(08-30-2018 02:55 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  
(08-30-2018 11:26 AM)ken d Wrote:  Why is Eastern Michigan paying somebody to play them? They don't get enough revenue for their home games as it is.

Yes, but it would be even more costly to play a game on the road, so it is worth it to pay.

When a home team pays for someone to come, factored in to that is their cost if they had to play a game on the road instead, and also the opportunity cost lost by the road team if they had played at home.

I have trouble seeing how EMU could be spending $300K to travel to an away game. And it seems to me that the alternative of "buying" an FCS game is to "sell" another game to an FBS opponent.
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Tulane is taking money from Ohio State and giving it to Nicholls State. A lot of AAC teams act as middlemen in this regard.
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(08-29-2018 07:50 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  College football’s version of the gig economy gets rolling Thursday, as teams across the country begin the annual ritual of playing one-time, non-conference games in exchange for huge payouts.

This season, well over $175 million will change hands just for teams getting on the field for these so-called “guarantee” games, according to an analysis of more than 275 contracts for matchups involving teams in the NCAA’s top-level Bowl Subdivision.


https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nc...131488002/

That article is baloney. A lot of those aren't "buy" games.

For example, Cincy @ UCLA is part of a 2 game contract. UCLA gives Cincy $400,000 this year for the visit to LA, and next year Cincy will (presumably) give UCLA $400,000 for the visit to Cincinnati.

This is very common in CFB contracts so that teams don't have wild revenue fluctuations from year-to-year.
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(08-30-2018 02:55 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  
(08-30-2018 11:26 AM)ken d Wrote:  Why is Eastern Michigan paying somebody to play them? They don't get enough revenue for their home games as it is.

Yes, but it would be even more costly to play a game on the road, so it is worth it to pay.

Right, buying the FCS home game is less costly for EMU in more ways than one. The amount that EMU makes from playing at Purdue in week 2 will probably be 3x or 4x as much as EMU pays Monmouth for the week 1 game. Also, EMU hopes to get a W out of the Monmouth game to offset the possible L from playing at Purdue.
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(08-30-2018 03:41 PM)YNot Wrote:  The FCS buy games are the worst part of college football IMO. There are too few touch points among FBS schools as it is.

Keep the FCS buy games, but as exhibition games that don't count towards the win-loss records, stats, bowl eligibility or red-shirt eligibility.

But, nobody will make a move, because everyone else is doing it and padding their position. It would take a FBS-wide rule change.

Not to mention the fact that the FCS conferences would fight it tooth and nail since they were the ones who pushed for the current rule structure instead of the "one every four years" we had previously.

Personally I like the games as long as they make sense. Furman traveling 30 minutes to play Clemson when the schools have 56 games of history going all the way back to Clemson's very first game makes sense. Charleston Southern playing Florida or VMI playing Toledo makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
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(08-30-2018 08:21 AM)mturn017 Wrote:  I'm feeling pretty good about the $1.3 million we're getting from Liberty

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Liberty paid $1.3 million for Old Dominion?

Did they think they were getting Ole Miss?
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(08-30-2018 11:26 AM)ken d Wrote:  Why is Eastern Michigan paying somebody to play them? They don't get enough revenue for their home games as it is.

Are you suggesting that Eastern Michigan only play nonconference games on the road? No one does that.
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