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.
SEC Bowl Payouts
SRS Distribution Las Vegas Bowl: Florida vs. Oregon State
Payout: $2,900,000
Saturday, Dec. 17 | 7:30 p.m. ET | ABC
Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl: Wake Forest vs. Missouri
Payout: $1,125,000
Friday, Dec. 23 | 6:30 p.m. ET | ESPN
AutoZone Liberty Bowl: Kansas vs. Arkansas
Payout: $4,700,000
Friday, Dec. 23 | 5:30 p.m. ET | ESPN
TaxAct Texas Bowl: Texas Tech vs. Ole Miss
Payout: $6,400,000
Friday, Dec. 23 | 9:00 p.m. ET | ESPN
TaxSlayer Gator Bowl: Notre Dame vs. South Carolina
Payout: $5,350,000
Friday, Dec. 30 | 3:30 p.m. ET | ESPN
Capital One Orange Bowl: Tennessee vs. Clemson
Payout: NY6 Contract
Friday, Dec. 30 | 8 p.m. ET | ESPN
Allstate Sugar Bowl: Alabama vs. Kansas State
Payout: NY6 Contract
Saturday, Dec. 31 | 12:00 p.m. ET | ESPN
TransPerfect Music City Bowl: Iowa vs. Kentucky
Payout: $5,700,000
Saturday, Dec. 31 | 12:00 p.m. ET | ABC
CFP Semifinal – Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl: Ohio State vs. Georgia
Payout: NY6 Contract
Saturday, Dec. 31 | 8:00 p.m. ET | ESPN
ReliaQuest Bowl: Mississippi State vs. Illinois
Payout: $6,400,000
Monday, Jan. 2 | 12:00 p.m. ET | ESPN2
Cheez-It Citrus Bowl: LSU vs. Purdue
Payout: $8,224,578
Monday, Jan. 2 | 1:00 p.m. ET | ABC
Source: https://businessofcollegesports.com/college-football-playoff-payouts/
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