The Art of the Paid Game
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- Опубликовано: 9 сен 2024
- The art of the paid game. Choose the right team and you get a relatively easy-tune-up game. Choose wrong and that upset lives on getting brought up year in and year out. The nightmare from that faithful day will be brought up by rival fans at every opportunity they can find. But why do these games even occur if they are supposed to be so uneven?
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A&M paying App State $1.5m to lose to them is the most A&M thing ever.
Same year that they had the "best recruiting class in history" btw
But they claim UT is “lil bro”😂
@@null_referenceand it was only a coincidence that it was the first year teams were allowed to openly pay players, which Jimbo denied 😂
I need to go to a paid game. They seem like a chill environment. Typically one of the cheaper games of the season and an easy win for whatever team is playing (typically) so less stress. Or you get an App State vs. Michigan and see an all time classic
Went to Pitt vs. Rhode Island in '22. RI kept it close until the third quarter, so the game was surprisingly good, and the atmosphere was great.
Use go so many for lsu, it not fun
@@Bakarostthey’re very fun
I went to the Michigan game against ECU last year. Paid games are a great way to talk to other fans and have a good time, while not having to stress about the outcome. Would recommend.
It’s litt man unless you’re Tennessee playing Georgia state lol
Favorite is when Georgia Southern beat Florida in The Swamp without completing a pass
I remember the Florida coach complaining in the post-game press conference that GSU played a simpler style of football that was harder to defend.
@@adameanglin defensive coach will muschamp
One of the worst places to be as a college football program is to be in the purgatory of being too good for the buy games to not only get a better strength of schedule. But to go head to head with a staple Power program to see if you truly match up. In all honesty, it's why I love the buy game upsets more than anything else in football. The fragile ego of these schools in what they thought would be an automatic win is shattered in a billion pieces for all to see.
It makes me sad that people are forgetting when mtsu handled Miami like two years ago
Well even though as a Miami fan I hate to admit it. It’s basically par for the course now with my team. It wasn’t really an upset as much as a common occurrence with us. Not taking anything away from them though. They came in and smacked us in the mouth. It’s a painful life being a Canes fan sometimes
I hope there were a ton of decommits after that game
@@SmashUltimatePro2018 you know there definitely was lol
Nobody watched that game
@@tombo6245I did
In this context, this is pretty cool for FCS, Smaller funded schools and the athletes. I didn’t realize how one game can impact that much significant change for schools.
I was at the University of Idaho when they made the decision to drop down to FCS, and the only grievence anyone had was that it meant getting less money for our paid games and how that would effect funding for our other sports.
@@willwinkle5945 I grew up close to Ole Miss and we played against each other in 2011? I’ve always had a soft spot for Idaho and the Dome. When I was younger I was confused, but in hindsight it was the best decision for yall and I’m glad it’s paying off!
my eastern michigan eagles getting paid 1.5 million to go into arizona state and beat them is my favorite of all time, arizona state’s athletic director was waiting for the coach in the end zone post game and fired him before he even got to the locker room😂
I can’t believe this shows up right after NIU Notre Dame
I just dont know how you can make an entire video on this without mentioning the undisputed king of the paid game choke. Off the top of my head, Arkansas has paid to lose to:
• The Citadel
• Toledo
• North Texas (blown out at home)
• San Jose State
• Western Kentucky (blown out at home)
• Liberty
• Louisiana Monroe
8:37 after time ran out J'ville shows 0-2 and FSU 1-1 lol
It trickles down too, however. Fordham actually *beat* Buffalo in that buy game you showed. Same thing happened with us in the FCS when we beat FBS Temple, Army, and Buffalo. Maybe not national brand, but as a Fordham fan we don't make national headlines until we win a buy game.
My JMU Dukes over Virginia Tech in Lane Stadium in 2010, that's another one. We're up in the FBS now in the Sun Belt and we play App State and Georgia Southern every year. Funny thing is, we played Virginia last year after forty years of them ducking us (we'd just gone I-AA when we beat them in Charlottesville in 1982), beat them 36-35 in a real good comeback, and now they won't schedule us again and also VT has delayed a game with us from 2025 to 2026 and may be looking to get out of it completely. The ACC is flat-out telling their schools not to schedule Group of 5 schools as non-conference opponents, probably because it's too risky for an upset. It's getting harder to get money games if you're a *good* G5 program because the big schools don't want to risk losing. So they'll either play FCS schools or absolute cupcakes, or big non-conference P4 opponents that'll sell out a stadium.
Also, don't forget the same year--the same SATURDAY in fact--that App State beat A&M, Marshall beat Notre Dame in South Bend and Georgia Southern beat Nebraska in Lincoln. All money games.
Yep, I’m a Liberty fan and I know the fan bases don’t like one another, but this is the same thing happening to us.
That's already happened in college basketball. Consistently good mid major teams (Vermont, College of Charleston, Eastern Washington, Liberty, etc) can't get any power conference teams to play them. College of Charleston had over 40 power conference teams turn down playing them last year, leading to them not having a single home game for a month.
This is why you should respect Louisville, we aren't afraid of these kinda games. Got Jax State on the slate this year too.
@@Thelouisvilleman As a College of Charleston fan, I hope we get to play you soon. We played each other a few times when Pitino was at Louisville, and now that we've pretty much switched coaches, I think we're due for a series.
You can add Northern Illinois beating Notre Dame 😆
Jax State actually has beaten an SEC team before. In 2010 we beat Ole Miss in Oxford to open the season. People always forget about that one, but the 2021 FSU game was of course a huge one for the program. Cool video, I just subscribed!
Lately, the Sun Belt has been smacking P5 teams around pretty often. Lol
Forget about FBS vs. FCS. Been to a live game between a FCS and Division II, Missouri State and Washburn. Missouri State lost by 8. The strangest thing is the very next year, Missouri State beat North Dakota State 3-0.
As a former D2 player, I bet most people don’t understand the variety in D2 programs. The cream of the crop D2 schools have way nicer facilities than a lot of FCS schools. (I was also recruited by EIU, every part of their facilities was 🤮). Hell even my Alma Mater (a small private school) has a better locker room and weight room than most FCS schools (It also helps when you host a Super Bowl and the NFL rebuilds your facilities 😂).
Back when my alma mater (NWMSU) was the cream of the crop in d2, around 2013-16, it was always so interesting to see the level of D1 talent that fell through the cracks!
App state over Michigan is the upset game. Number two is Boise St and the statue of liberty play in the fiesta bowl.
Paid games are all good until Bishop Sycamore is taking Ohio State behind a woodshed and standing on their neck 😂
Idk why that App St game was such an upset. They were 2 time defending national champs in their division and went on to win their 3rd in a row that year. Those dudes could ball out. I know Michigan still should have won, but there's been bigger upsets in CF.
Wasn’t even the biggest upset that year. Not even being biased
@andrewblakeslee8709 I know! That awful Stanford team beating USC 2 weeks later was even bigger, but you never really hear about that game. Stanford was a 40+ point underdog.
Most people (incorrectly) think that the worst FBS/Power 5 team should demolish the best FCS team. Even if Michigan was not that good relative to their recent success, the expectation was that there was no way any Big Ten team would lose to the FCS at home-even if it had already happened prior to that game.
I feel like people often underestimate how good some FCS teams are. NDSU at their peak could probably hold their own against some ranked FBS teams.
If you look at the score board during the touchdown by Jacksonville vs Florida State at the end of the video. The scoreboard controllers already had it prepared to mark the Gamecocks 0 - 2 and FSU 1 - 1 despite the Gamecocks wining on that last moment miracle play.
Great video. I know a common theme 1st year HCs of P4 schools will make the mistake of losing to 1 lower division school. Honestly that is embarrassing and coach job is in trouble. If that happens, lower division school football program are on the rise.
With the likely chance that the Big Ten and SEC split from the rest of the league I think paid games are going to take a massive blow
Or it would just be like when a power five team plays anFCS team
Even though I grew up in Nebraska & am a MASSIVE Husker fan, I graduated from a small ELCA college in Sioux Falls, SD (Augustana). Augie was rivals with SDSU in the old North Central Conference (NCC) before SDSU & most of the rest of the conference moved up to FCS. The rivalry with SDSU was somewhat lopsided in football, due to Augie being significantly smaller than SDSU (1300 students compared to around 8,000). Therefore, I was THRILLED in 2010 to be able to get tickets when SDSU came to play Nebraska in Lincoln, since now I would be able to see SDSU get stomped by Nebraska, the same way SDSU used to do to Augie! Nebraska ended up winning by only 14 points, but at least they WON, which is something a few other Big 10/Big 12 teams can't say (since they have lost games to former NCC schools)!
A personal favorite paid game where the small team beat the bigger team was in my freshman year of College East Tennessee State University beat Vanderbilt in 2021
In 2018 Arkansas paid UNT $1 million to come out and play what they thought was going to be a blowout of a conference USA team. North Texas ended up winning 44-17, Arkansas QB Cole Kelley threw 4 INTs, and UNT had the viral fake punt return.
I feel like paid games could get even more popular/common now that we’ve got the NIL stuff.
Instead of just paying for facility upgrades, paid game money could go to NIL prospects
Notr dame vs niu today 😭
My favorite happened last year when New Mexico State beat auburn by 3 TDs in Jordan hairre that’s just embarrassing
You mean amazing. I'm a Aggie fan
North Dakota State needs to become FBS
Only issue is what conference would they join
@@GunnarIsphording off the top of my head I’d say Mountain West but I’d see a case for the Big 10
@@burritoburnett They aren't Power 4 level yet-and it has nothing to do with program prestige- their facilities are not Big 10 level- the Fargodome doesn't even seat 20000 people- they have a long way until they can provide monetary value for a P4 conference. I'd say they could put the MAC on the map or make great members of the MWC. I don't see the Big 10 making overtures to either NDSU or SDSU. They would come in a package like Texas and Oklahoma going to the SEC. I think those two could DOMINATE the MAC and be contenders in the MWC.
How about no. I like FCS football let’s not kill it. It’s ridiculous how many have jumped just in a few years.
@@trevinschaerr3732 why stay FCS when you can move to FBS? Legitimate question. My opinion is that in FCS you have to be near perfect on your season just to make the playoffs and in FBS if you get 6 wins you get a bowl game and bring money and fame (recruits) to your school. Id like to hear other thoughts though
I personally LOVE these games. Not only is it a great opportunity to get a financial windfall for small schools. It’s also a fantastic opportunity for major programs to get a tuneup game to work things out before starting conference play. AND occasionally the impossible happens 😏😏😏
When you lose to a horrible team at home in which you payed a million dollars to play against thats sad and you know someone is getting fired.
I hate that Kentucky has been spending money on paid games instead of just paying the players like the other schools in the SEC were doing for years. 😔
Jax States upset against FSU is probably my favorite upset of all time😂
Funniest thing is that, as a Portland State fan, I saw us beat a team even worse than UO beat us just weeks later
talk about the Boise state broncos football and talk about there history
You should do Western Michigan
Bet you didn't expect for South Carolina to almost blow it
3 paid games in one year, tanking some poor athletes senior season, for the sake of a locker room. Insane.
It’s good exposure for the players, a chance at the big stage as the video mentions
@@Robertoduran1106 your team and season shouldn’t be thrown under the bus. Lower level guys like Mitchell from Toledo played one big pay day game and still went first round. It doesn’t take 3 tank games for the NFL to find you. The talent and physicality gap is so large that I’d go out on a limb and even say 3 games is dangerous.
@iraxks0341 the three big teams they played that year was Connecticut, Syracuse and Rutgers, and tbh the seniors on that team had a 4-31 record going into that season
It’s not tanking lol
I mean, if they’re on a team that is being paid to play in real games; they probably won’t be winning anyways. They’re sacrificing a few possible wins for one class of athletes, and in return the next 2 or 3 classes have better chances of improving. Otherwise it’s just every year being blowouts for free.
troy vs lsu was amazing
Ion know man something tells me NIU got a shot against ND…heard they paying 1.4 mil
The beauty of college football is that motivation matters more than talent! The new expanded playoff will show this as well!
Respectfully disagree talent matters on defense and on the line. A good example is the OSU cowboys they played their hearts out last year they had multiple late game comebacks but in the Big 12 championship they got completely dominated because defensively they sucked not just talent wise but scheme wise as well despite Ollie Gordon playing like a rabbid dog. And the defense were playing like mad men even while being down 21. Its all XandOs with the combination of scheme especially in playoff/Championship games where the talent gap isn't that big. Thats why certain teams like Penn State and Ole Miss always lose to the contenders they get outschemed because they don't switch it up and rely on playing fast and raw passion by using simplified schemes. But that just ain't it. To summarise there's a lot that goes into the game pulling a Steven A Smith and blaming a loss on a "lack of motivation" is disrespectful to all the athletes that had to put their heart and soul into the game to even start for a D1 program let alone a power 5 school
The rise of SIU Salukis…as being from the area I really hope either this year or next is a breakout year for SIU. We could’ve beat…yes I know would’ve could’ve should’ve. But here me out should’ve beat Idaho on the road in the playoffs last year if it wasn’t for kicking. We lost 20-17. What do you guys think breakout soon?
As a Miami Hurricane fan, I'd love to see how you would do a rise and fall video for us. (Love for it to be a RFR video.... But lets be honest.... lol)
Or one about how influential Miami has been.
Notable moments including Ohio St and the refs fcking us over in the 03 championship game.
And how I would argue that Miami was the first "modern" NCAA team in terms of setting up the culture of how it is today. NIL deals are in big part because of SMU, USC, and Miami. The modern attitude is very much based around us. The Miami rules. HOF players. And how moving conferences can be a bad thing!!!!!!! Look at us and how we never won again after leaving the Big East.
Montana 13 #20 Washington 7.
The 1869 championship game when the team that invented sport lost was the greatest upset ever
APP STATE PRIDE BABYYYY #rollneers
someones a emplemon fan
Troy State Vs Lsu . 1.5M
MS state mention
When Tennessee upset Vandy
JSU beating florida st on a hail mary
Idaho 33
Nevada 6
Last season
Watch Tennessee tech beat Georgia this year
We are bought in here. Don't think we will, but hey; there's always a shot at 2-0 by the end of UGA. It'd be hilarious!
Marshall vs Ntre Dame 2022
My sister was at the JSU vs FSU game sicne she was in JSU's band. She said for whatever reason FSU fans were full on harrassing them calling them names and everything (after JSU beat them) . I think I dont like FSU specifically because of that.
Paid game cupcake games are win wins no matter what
Or a tune up game
Georgia tech paid about $2.25 per point against Cumberland 😂
Ualbany is gonna beat west virginia on september 7
No way bro said Idaho vs Oregon has upset potential😭
and so he was right
@@titkadzhemima ah yes I too remember Idaho defeating Oregon
fear nmsu
UGA vs TCU has to be my favorite paid game in recent memory.
Man that app st vs michgan game is the emboidment of "a day that will live in infamy" even tho app state was legit and michgan was at beginning of a 10 year strech of medoicrtiy really more like 15 years but still growing up as a 10 year old i rember it being talked about for the whole season
Next upset in line: Akron over Ohio State
Oof
Like jobbers in wrestling
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Idaho vs orgen absoultey does not have a shot ending in an upset if orgeon goes 1-11 idaho will be that win the rest u mentioned who knows maybe but idaho is a bottom feeder of the bottom feeders
It was almost an upset 😂