.Northern Illinois stunned No. 5 Notre Dame last weekend break on a last-second basket to mark university football's initial large trouble of 2024. For the Huskies, it is actually a win they'll be actually celebrating for a long times to follow. For the Fighting Irish, it is actually a season-crusher. To drop the home opener to a tiny university from a vastly poor association was actually a shame for Notre Dame.Especially because they paid out NIU $1.4 thousand to carry out it.This beams an illumination on one of the lengthiest as well as most costly practices in university football: promise games. They are actually likewise gotten in touch with "cash games," "salary video games," or even, as I such as to phone all of them, "get full weeks." A pricey (as well as high-risk) traditionFor many years, in the 1st handful of full weeks of the season, primary university football organizations have paid out smaller sized institutions to follow to play all of them in their house.In Week 1 alone, much more than $35 thousand was actually spent around at least 55 guarantee games, depending on to Face Office Sports. Alabama created the most significant inspection to its opponent, Western side Kentucky, for an enormous $1.9 thousand. WKU lost that activity 63-- 0, however they perhaps struck the bank on the bus adventure home as well as most likely will not reconsider it.In Week 2, three universities-- Western Michigan, Center Tennessee, as well as Utah State-- received payouts larger than NIU's $1.4 million. They dropped by a combined score of 156-- 3, but they take away an overall of $4.85 thousand in the process.It's generally a bargain for each staffs. The tiny universities acquire a salary, the large schools obtain an additional home video game to dairy gameday earnings. The tiny school reaches use the significant phase and also obtain national exposure, the large one obtains a dish on the routine to begin the year in a sporting activity without any preseason. Thus all's effectively and excellent until the lesser staff chooses to present out and draw the distress.