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Rutgers hosted UMass and lost Friday, then sent the Minutemen home with $1.5 million guaranteed.
That figure ranks as the second-largest payout for a loss in college football history, a detail that elevated an already painful home defeat in Piscataway into an entirely different kind of accounting problem.
The loss also came with postgame fireworks. Rutgers ran the scheduled show regardless of the result, leaving fans watching celebratory pyrotechnics after a home defeat.
USC arrives next, and a first realistic home win does not appear on the schedule until Howard comes to town the following week. Colorado's Friday read differently.
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