One of the things that the causal college football fan doesn’t know about bowl season are the payouts. If you didn’t know each bowl game has their own monetary payout for both Universities that participate. This helps aid the cost as programs usually eat a lot of money due to expenses. If a team belongs to a conference their bowl payout will be added to their conference’s collective and will be redistributed later. That’s why every conference wants as many of their teams possible to make the bowl season. This gives more money for the conference if more teams make it. Even the teams that do not make a bowl will receive a payout for just being in the conference. Then you have Independents like Notre Dame who want the highest payout as possible. Since they are Independent of a conference they share with no one. So let’s take a conference and look at their payouts this bowl season.
ACC Bowl Payouts
Saturday, Dec. 17
Wasabi Fenway Bowl
Payout: Unannounced
Cincinnati vs. Louisville, 11 a.m., ESPN
Friday, Dec. 23
Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl
Wake Forest vs. Missouri, 6:30 p.m., ESPN
Payout: $1,125,000
Wednesday, Dec. 28
Military Bowl Presented by Peraton
UCF vs. Duke, 2:00 p.m., ESPN
Payout: 2,066,990
San Diego County Credit Union Holiday Bowl
Oregon vs. North Carolina, 8:00 p.m., Fox
Payout: $6,532,700
Thursday, Dec. 29
Bad Boy Mowers Pinstripe Bowl
Syracuse vs. Minnesota, 2:00 p.m., ESPN
Payout: $4,400,000
Cheez-It Bowl
Oklahoma vs. Florida State, 5:30 p.m., ESPN
Payout: $6,071,760
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Friday, Dec. 30
Duke’s Mayo Bowl
Maryland vs. NC State, Noon, ESPN
Payout: $4,780,461
Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl
Pittsburgh vs. UCLA, 2:00 p.m., CBS
Payout: $4,550,000
Capital One Orange Bowl
Tennessee vs. Clemson, 8:00 p.m., ESPN
Payout: (Contract Bowl) In 2019 UVA made $27.5 Million for attending the Orange Bowl, but is estimated to be higher this 2022 season. We will use that number as an estimate in our totals.
ACC Bowl Payout Total
Total: $75,026,911
Source: https://businessofcollegesports.com/college-football-playoff-payouts/
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