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How will the home team pay the visiting team?

The home team pays the visiting team in college football. OSU paid VT $350K to play in Columbus, and VT paid OSU $350K for the return game in Blacksburg. The FCS schools would have a hard time coming up with a small payout like that and making the $500K they would get for playing the FBS school.

Also, most of the FCS schools wouldn't be able to make that much money because most of them don't have a stadium that can generate enough income. A few years ago, Michigan paid Delaware State $550K to play in Ann Arbor. It would have taken Delaware State 2 years of home games to generate that much in their 7K stadium.

UT-Chat 21K stadium
Citadel 21K
ETSU 6K, new stadium will be 10K
Furman 16K
Mercer 10K
Samford 6700
VMI 10K
WCU 14K
Wofford 13K

Biggest FCS stadiums are about 25K, and there are only a handful of those.

Also, the payoffs make it easier to schedule those teams in other sports. VMI, Liberty, JMU, Richmond, and W&M don't mind visiting for baseball, softball, tennis, track, wrestling, swimming, volleyball, and soccer matches during the mid week when the football team takes in $500K from you.

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Posted: 07/14/2016 at 11:59PM

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