I’ll pay you $1.5 million to beat me. / myLot

United States

September 6, 2026 10:38pm CST

This is embarrassing, but kind of funny. So, I watch (American) college football. The first week of the season the big schools always have the cupcake (bad or easy) football schools come visit to get their season started off on the right note with a win. Well, no school is going to subject their players to humiliation without incentive, so the big colleges pay the littles to basically come get beat. Except when a little school that could doesn’t follow the plan. Enter UMass, who was paid $1.5 million dollars to come play Rutgers, favored by 29 points. Rutgers was so sure they would win they planned a fireworks show afterwards. Only Rutgers lost on their home field by a good margin. And since it was already promised, they had to let off a fireworks show. After a LOSS. To an almost empty stadium because of it. Don’t you just love it when David slays Goliath?

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April

@thislittlepennyearns (72988)

• Defuniak Springs, Florida

7 Sep

Love an underdog story. Also is cupcake team a real phrase or is that your phrase? Either way I love it.

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Amber

@AmbiePam (131554)

• United States

7 Sep

It’s a real term. I wish I was creative enough to think of it!

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April

@thislittlepennyearns (72988)

• Defuniak Springs, Florida

7 Sep

@AmbiePam I will have to start using it. Because I def think the team that the Gators played yesterdaw was a cupcake team.

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Michael

@Wrexxo (10041)

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7 Sep

lmaooo the fireworks after a LOSS is sending me, that had to be so awkward. paying someone 1.5 million to lose to you is peak comedy honestly. gotta love when the "sure thing" blows up in their face like that

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Amber

@AmbiePam (131554)

• United States

7 Sep

I so agree.

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luisadannointed

@luisadannointed (13213)

• Philippines

9 Sep

Yes! Super! And I hope God will do that with me in front of my own goliaths. Hehehe.

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Amber

@AmbiePam (131554)

• United States

9 Sep

And He undoubtedly will!

Go Crossbones

@crossbones27 (54072)

• Mojave, California

7 Sep

I was watching that game and like who cares, if I knew it would have blew up like it did.

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Scott Ganschow

@teamfreak16 (48442)

• Denver, Colorado

7 Sep

UMass is a hockey school. I found it hilarious!

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Amber

@AmbiePam (131554)

• United States

7 Sep

It was so great.

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Lone_Wolf82

@Lone_Wolf82 (36)

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7 Sep

God, I thought you were offering that money to one of us ... LOL ....

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Amber

@AmbiePam (131554)

• United States

7 Sep

That’s hilarious….and an offer someone has undoubtedly made online at some point.

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Lone_Wolf82

@Lone_Wolf82 (36)

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7 Sep

@AmbiePam Lets hope someone does it again LOL

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snowy

@snowy22315 (214054)

• United States

7 Sep

Yeah, usually..you are right, classic case of David beating Goliath.

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Stacey

@xstitcher (40602)

• Petaluma, California

8 Sep

Oh, yes.

Shows what happens when you get over confident.

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Four Walls

@FourWalls (89446)

• United States

7 Sep

That almost backfired on Michigan, but they added stoppage time like they do in football (soccer).

That’s usually what happens the first week or two in college football: the powerhouse teams play St. Joseph’s Poor Brothers of the Lame and Blind or something. Same thing in college basketball: Duke plays Rabbi Feinstein’s Retirement Home and Yeshiva or UNC goes up against Prosthetics Test College.