Louisiana should be scheduling THREE P5 teams a year.
This may well have been a three party negotiation which in the end got all three what they wanted and in a better position than each was in prior to the negotiations. For discussions sake, possibly the following happened:
1. Mich St wanted a different opponent or maybe needed the date as a result of conference demands and negotiated an out for free conditioned upon Louisiana finding a bigger payday somewhere else.
2. Louisiana found a bigger payday at WV and probably a better opponent in a better weather place for a bigger payday.
3. WV filled the spot with a D1 opponent that may increase the competition on its schedule as opposed to a non D 1 opponent and may be paying about the same.
While these are all assumptions and are with no information from The Bird, it does put out a scenario why each may have gotten better then what the had in the end.
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