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Message: [QUOTE="supp, post: 2886770, member: 702"] Money is the answer. The cost of these guarantee games is going higher and higher every year. A cool million to buy an opponent. Some way more. Alabama paid $1.5 million or something like that for Arkansas State this past year. Ten years ago, most of these buy games were $500K at most. Competition for them is the only thing that explains the cost inflation. $1 million is chump change for the SEC teams that fill up their 80K stadiums no matter who shows up but it's a big chunk of the ticket sales at Syracuse. If SU wants a guarantee game, they need to look local where their smaller guarantee is made up for by the lower expenses the mid-major incurs by playing us vs. a southern school. Of course, there's no competing with PSU for opponents close by like Ohio. [/QUOTE]