One of many attention-grabbing issues in regards to the early portion of the faculty soccer schedule is the wealth of mismatched groups that find yourself dealing with one another.
Positive, there are some big-time contests between historic heavyweights — Alabama at Texas was a basic! — however you additionally discover a plethora of video games that seem to hold the intent of being glorified scrimmages, meant to get a Energy 5 workforce prepared for the convention slate.
And lower-level groups — usually Group of 5 and even FCS groups — are completely satisfied to take the video games, as a result of they usually are paid to take action. These funds may be essential to the monetary well being of such packages.
Typically, although, the big-time packages really lose these video games, and as RJ Younger wrote in our Week 4 preview, "in case you lose to a cupcake — put cash within the bag — you are gonna catch a load of cream filling to your face like a clown."
This yr, there have been a wealth of such upsets wherein the workforce that was paid to struggle the bully ended up shelling out some black eyes, strolling away with each the money and a victory.
This development has given Younger a lot delight, and he outlined the listing of those video games in a "Cash within the Bag" phase on his podcast, "The Quantity One Faculty Soccer Present."
"You pay a college that's often in a division beneath you, however typically simply outdoors of your Energy 5 convention, to return in and take a whooping'," Younger stated. "And each every so often, we get any person that claims 'we ain't gonna take no whoopin'.'"
Younger then went on to stipulate a number of such upsets, and the way a lot the dropping workforce paid for the "privilege" to get beat.
Japanese Michigan def. Arizona State, 30-21
Japanese Michigan was paid $1.5 million.
William & Mary def. Charlotte, 41-24
Williams & Mary was paid $300,000
Japanese Kentucky def. Bowling Inexperienced, 59-57
Japanese Kentucky was paid $350,000
Tulane def. Kansas State, 17-10
Tulane was paid $300,000
Incarnate Phrase def. Nevada, 55-41
Incarnate Phrase was paid $300,000
Weber State def. Utah State, 35-7
Weber State was paid $390,000
Southern Illinois def. Northwestern, 31-24
Southern Illinois was paid $550,000
Georgia Southern def. Nebraska, 45-42
Georgia Southern was paid $1.4 million.
"Charlotte, Bowling Inexperienced, Kansas State, Arizona State, Nevada, Utah State, Northwestern and Nebraska, you have been had!" Younger stated.
You'll be able to catch extra of the dialog from "The Quantity One Faculty Soccer Present" on YouTube, or by subscribing to the present on Apple podcasts or your favourite podcast app.
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