.Northern Illinois stunned No. 5 Notre Dame last weekend on a last-second field goal to mark university soccer's initial huge distress of 2024. For the Huskies, it is actually a win they'll be actually commemorating for several years to come. For the Battling Irish, it is actually a season-crusher. To shed the home opener to a small college coming from a greatly poor association was a humiliation for Notre Dame.Especially due to the fact that they spent NIU $1.4 thousand to do it.This sparkles a light on one of the lengthiest as well as very most pricey heritages in college football: warranty activities. They're also contacted "cash video games," "income video games," or even, as I just like to phone them, "buy weeks." A costly (and also high-risk) traditionFor many years, in the first couple of weeks of the season, major university volleyball organizations have actually spent smaller sized schools ahead to play them in their house.In Full week 1 alone, much more than $35 thousand was actually invested all over at the very least 55 warranty games, according to Face Workplace Athletics. Alabama composed the largest check to its own challenger, Western Kentucky, for a monstrous $1.9 thousand. WKU lost that activity 63-- 0, but they perhaps hit the bank on the bus adventure home and likely will not reconsider it.In Week 2, 3 institutions-- Western Michigan, Middle Tennessee, as well as Utah State-- obtained payments larger than NIU's $1.4 million. They lost through a bundled credit rating of 156-- 3, but they took home an overall of $4.85 thousand in the process.It's usually a bargain for each teams. The small colleges obtain a payday, the big institutions receive yet another home video game to dairy gameday profits. The little university comes to play on the significant stage and also acquire national visibility, the major one obtains a cupcake on the routine to start the year in a sporting activity without preseason. Therefore all's well and also really good until the lesser crew decides to reveal out as well as take the trouble.