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Report: Pitt's Payout to Youngstown State Revealed

The Pitt Panthers will pay nearly half a million dollars for Youngstown State to visit Pittsburgh this season.

Stephen Thompson

Report: Pitt's Payout to Youngstown State Revealed
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PITTSBURGH -- The start of the 2024 Pitt Panthers football season is still months away but the preparations are already underway and more details about the schedule have come out as the offseason trudges through its dog days. 

One of those details concerns Pitt's Week 4 opponent - Youngstown State. According to a report from Hero Sports' Sam Herder, who's tracked playouts for FCS teams playing Power 5 teams for years, the Panthers will pay Youngstown State $450,000 to travel to Pittsburgh and play a game at Acrisure Stadium during Week 4, 

So-called "buy games" with the same payout totals include Florida State hosting Charleston Southern, Kansas State hosting UT Martin, Northwestern hosting Illinois, Richmond at Virginia and South Dakota State at Oklahoma State. 

Pitt paid Rhode Island the same amount for a trip to Acrisure Stadium during the 2022 season, according to Herder. The school reportedly paid New Hampshire $425,000 for a game during the 2021 season. 

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Stephen Thompson
STEPHEN THOMPSON

Stephen Thompson graduated with a bachelor's degree in communications and political science from Pitt in April 2022 after spending four years as a sports writer and editor at The Pitt News, the University of Pittsburgh's independent, student-run newspaper.  He primarily worked the Pitt men's basketball beat, and filled in on coverage of football, volleyball, softball, gymnastics and lacrosse, in addition to other sports as needed. His work at The Pitt News has won awards from the Pennsylvania News Media Association and Associated College Press.  During the spring and summer of 2021, Stephen interned for Pittsburgh Sports Now, covering baseball in western Pennsylvania. Hailing from Washington D.C., family ties have cultivated a love of Boston's professional teams and Pitt athletics, and a fascination with sports in general.  You can reach Stephen by email at stephenethompson00@gmail.com and follow him on Twitter. Read his latest work:

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