Fresno State has reached an agreement to play three football games at USC, adding the Trojans to a number of budget-balancing games against Power Five conference opponents in its future.
The games will be played on Aug. 31, 2019, Sept. 17, 2022 and Aug. 30, 2025 at the Los Angeles Coliseum. Each game will be worth $1.1 million to an athletic department that just brought on two more sports, wrestling and women’s water polo, while trying to raise funds to cover cost of attendance stipends for its student-athletes and other outlays to remain competitive in the Mountain West Conference and nationally.