Maybe BYU should do more of these guaranteed-payout games.
Guarantee payouts are a common practice for non-conference games, and the BYU-Arizona game was another one of those.
BYU got one million dollars from Nebraska in 2015 as part of the one-game series, and Arizona will have to pay BYU $600,000 in addition to taking the loss. USA Today compiled each of the week one guarantee payouts.
BYU-Arizona are in the midst of a 3-game series, with the 2016 game in Glendale, yesterday’s in Tucson and the 2021 game at the new Raiders stadium in Las Vegas.