HATTIESBURG — When your annual budget is $28 million, making $1.85 million for an afternoon of work is a no-brainer. You'll take $1.2 million in a heartbeat as well.
Those are the paydays Southern Miss will get for taking on SEC football teams this month. The Golden Eagles will receive $1.85 million from Alabama for their game on Sept. 21 and $1.2 from Mississippi State for the game this weekend.
According to a recent USA TODAY report, there will be more than 250 football games this season including at least one FBS team where one or both of the teams involved is set to profit from the game in the form of a payment from the other team.