{"id":1930698,"date":"2026-09-01T06:13:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T10:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1930698"},"modified":"2026-09-01T06:54:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T10:54:00","slug":"will-the-pursuit-of-playoff-berths-at-the-top-of-college-football-cost-fcs-teams-not-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1930698","title":{"rendered":"Will the pursuit of playoff berths at the top of college football cost FCS teams? Not so far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FCS teams often face FBS teams in &#8220;money games,&#8221; where they endure losses but earn significant payouts. This season, there are 127 such games on the schedule. Despite potential changes like playoff expansion, these games remain popular. Power Four teams pay FCS opponents about $525,000, while Gro&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/d1abb-will-the-pursuit-of-playoff-berths-at-the-top-of-college-football-cost-fcs-teams-not-so-far\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FCS teams often face FBS teams in &#8220;money games,&#8221; where they endure losses but earn significant payouts. This season, there are 127 such games on the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[114,115,116],"class_list":["post-1930698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","tag-cricket","tag-india","tag-pakistan","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1930698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1930699,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930698\/revisions\/1930699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1930698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1930698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1930698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}