.Northern Illinois stunned No. 5 Notre Dame last weekend on a last-second field goal to scratch college football's 1st big upset of 2024. For the Huskies, it's a gain they'll be actually commemorating for several years to follow. For the Combating Irish, it's a season-crusher. To shed the home opener to a small school coming from a vastly substandard association was an embarrassment for Notre Dame.Especially because they paid NIU $1.4 million to accomplish it.This sparkles a light on some of the lengthiest as well as most costly traditions in college volleyball: warranty games. They're additionally called "amount of money activities," "paycheck activities," or even, as I just like to call all of them, "get weeks." An expensive (and also unsafe) traditionFor decades, in the initial handful of weeks of the period, major university football organizations have actually paid smaller colleges to follow to play them in their house.In Full week 1 alone, greater than $35 million was actually invested all over a minimum of 55 guarantee activities, according to Face Workplace Athletics. Alabama wrote the largest check to its own challenger, Western side Kentucky, for an enormous $1.9 million. WKU lost that activity 63-- 0, however they perhaps attacked the trust the bus flight home and also very likely will not reconsider it.In Full week 2, 3 institutions-- Western Michigan, Center Tennessee, and Utah State-- acquired payouts larger than NIU's $1.4 thousand. They lost by a combined credit rating of 156-- 3, however they took home a total of $4.85 thousand in the process.It's normally a deal for each staffs. The tiny institutions obtain an income, the large colleges get yet another home activity to milk gameday earnings. The tiny college reaches use the major stage and acquire nationwide direct exposure, the huge one obtains a dish on the routine to start the year in a sport without any preseason. Therefore all's properly and also great up until the smaller group chooses to reveal out as well as pull the distress.