There's Money in Them Thar ... Games

[IdaGriz01]

Interesting numbers about the guarantees being paid for (mostly) "body bag" games. The item mostly concerns power programs against mid/lower-tier FBS, but there are some FCS too:
http://espn.go.com/college-football...-paying-opponents-least-128m-combined-weekend
Here's part of it:

... FBS teams that pay for FCS opponents often wind up on top, although some teams have presented more trouble than others. One of those teams is North Dakota State, who has been paid and then subsequently knocked off Colorado State, Minnesota, Kansas and Kansas State in recent years. Iowa State is paying the Bison $350,000 this week to play it in Ames.

For some of these "Opponents," this one game pays a major chunk of their whole football budget.