Saturday’s 41-17 win against Western Kentucky put FIU on various ESPN highlight packages, solidly into a bowl game and put an extra $47,000 into head coach Butch Davis’ and athletic director Pete Garcia’s wallets.
That’s the total bonus money owed Davis and Garcia if FIU plays in a bowl game.
The 7-4 Panthers became bowl eligible back on Nov. 4 by beating Texas-San Antonio for their sixth win. But saying you’re bowl eligible isn’t saying anything in 2017 Conference USA, home of 10 bowl-eligible teams. There’s only six primary bowl tie-ins and one secondary tie-in.