The Western Michigan Broncos will travel less than 100 miles to one of the Meccas of college football, South Bend, Indiana. They will, of course, take on the once proud Notre Dame Fighting Irish for a cool 1.175 million dollar payday, at least according to this tweet from Brandon Folsom.
BREAKING: Notre Dame and Western Michigan will play a nonconference football game Sept. 19, 2020. WMU receives $1.175 million for the trip.
— Brandon Folsom (@folsombrandonj) September 21, 2017
The Fighting Irish are 3-0 vs. the Broncos, with their latest win coming in 2010 by a margin of 44-20. The other two wins happened back in the era where the Wolverines claim most of their titles.
While the game is far enough away that most predictions will be useless, I will go ahead and throw one out there. If former CMU and now current ND head coach Brian Kelly wants to attend this game, he’ll have to buy a ticket like the rest of us. 4000 of those will be given to WMU as part of the deal.