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Bye buy games? G5 could lose millions in Power 5 payouts

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In 2018, with his school facing the possibility of cutting staff to make up a huge shortfall in state funding, Northern Illinois athletic director Sean Frazier added a football game at Florida State to the Huskies' schedule.

The road trip came with a $1.6 million payout to NIU. “Florida State, essentially, saved people’s jobs,” Frazier said. Guarantee games, or buy games, are essential to many athletic departments that field Division I football teams but have far smaller budgets than those at Power Five schools.

Even before the pandemic spawned a financial crisis, most Group of Five schools were using university funds and student fees to help pay for athletics.

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