Costly downside of guarantee games for Power Five emerges early in college football season

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It happens every year: some Power Five teams hands a supposed cupcake a million dollars to come to town for a beat down. Only the Power Five team is the one that gets beat down. Like yesterday. Tap below to read this write up by Steve Berkowitz for the USAToday.

Costly downside of guarantee games for Power Five emerges early in college football season

A span of less than 30 minutes Saturday night again revealed the potential downside of Power Five conference schools paying big appearance guarantees to non-conference football opponents for games intended to pad win totals and home attendance.