The economy of college football isn’t balanced and that is why you have weeks like this. The Florida Gators will pay UT Martin $500,000 dollars to play a football game this weekend in Gainesville and it’s more than worth it to both schools.
For Florida they get a home game, a chance to have their stadium packed with its fans and the city of Gainesville gets to reap the benefits of a hustling and bustling college town with a football game. For UT Martin, it’s an even bigger benefit. Games like this, although normally ending in lopsided losses, are the lifeblood of their program and allow the university to field a football team.