Playing against Football Bowl Subdivision teams usually hasn't ended well for the Nicholls Colonels. Especially when they face teams from Power Five conferences.
Since 2000, Nicholls is 3-24 against FBS schools, with the average margin of defeat being 47.5 points. They are 0-5 against teams from power conferences, with the last four losses - road games at Nebraska, Oregon State, Oregon and Arkansas - coming by a combined score of 272-20.
The financial benefit is too good to pass up, however, and Nicholls, which visits Colorado on Saturday, doesn't have any plans to stop scheduling these games.