Life as a College Football Cupcake: Why Smaller Teams Take Their Lumps

Posted by Adam Kramer on September-7-2016 Add Comments

The working assumption is that the team with more will obliterate the team with less. This arrangement is as much a part of the fabric of college football as warm charcoal and full koozies.

We call them cupcakes. Paycheck games. Unwatchable.

Whatever label you wish to bestow, watching a powerful brand from one of the nation's five major conferences clobber an FCS opponent or mid-major early on in the season is a familiar ritual.

The team with less will be compensated for such obliteration, of course. That's an enormous part of this agreement. Being a sacrificial lamb isn't free or cheap. Nor should it be.

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