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How much is Missouri State football being paid to play at Ball State this week?
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Watch Missouri State Ryan Beard press conference before Ball State
Missouri State football coach Ryan Beard addressed the media following its Week 1 loss to Montana and previewed the team’s Week 2 visit to Ball State.
Missouri State football will play its annual FBS opponent when it travels to play Ball State on Saturday afternoon.
As an FCS program, the Bears will receive a guaranteed payment for playing an FBS team. Such games are beneficial to the school’s annual athletics budget. In fiscal year 2022, the Bears’ $425,000 guarantee payment they received made up for about 27.1% of the revenue the program generated minus the direct institutional support.
The Bears are set to receive larger guaranteed payments once they join the FBS ranks and Conference USA in 2025.
Missouri State football vs Ball State guarantee payment
Ball State is paying Missouri State $325,000 to play Saturday’s game in Muncie, Indiana.
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What are Missouri State football’s future guarantee payments?
Every game contract except for the 2027 matchup at Cincinnati was signed before Missouri State announced it was joining Conference USA and the FBS ranks.
Missouri State will likely attempt to renegotiate each game under contract hoping to receive the typical FBS rate, much like the seven-figure deal it landed with Cincinnati.
The Bears recently paid $150,000 to get out of their 2025 opener with Arkansas, which was originally going to pay Missouri State $500,000. The Bears will likely land a replacement game that can pay them at least double what the Razorbacks initially agreed to pay and declined to increase.
- 2026 — @ Kansas State ($450,000)
- 2027 — @ Cincinnati ($1.125 million)
- 2027 — @ Kansas ($500,000)
- 2029 — @ Mizzou ($550,000)
- 2030 — @ Tulsa ($400,000)
- 2032 — @ Tulsa ($435,000)
- 2033 — @ Mizzou ($550,000)
Missouri State will also receive $300,000 from Marshall in a home-and-home agreement that begins with the Bears going to Marshall in 2025 and the Thundering Hurd coming to Springfield in 2026.
How much will Missouri State football make in future game contracts as a Conference USA program?
Missouri State’s first seven-figure deal to play Cincinnati is only the beginning. The Bears are going to get much larger contracts moving forward.
Here are the dollar amounts Group of 5 programs took home last week when playing Power Conference opponents:
- Western Kentucky @ Alabama – $1.9 million
- Fresno State @ Michigan – $1.85 million
- Colorado State @ Texas – $1.8 million
- UTEP @ Nebraska – $1.65 million
- Kent State @ Pittsburgh – $1.1 million
- Miami (Ohio) @ Northwestern – $1.1 million
Added to landing the seven-figure deals, Missouri State can play more than one of these games in a single season. More money is coming the Bears’ way for playing these games.
What will future Missouri State football contracts with Group of 5 programs look like?
It is a rarity for Missouri State to play Group of 5 programs. This is the Bears’ first since 2019, when they lost to Tulane. They also played Memphis and Arkansas State during the Dave Steckel era. You’re going to see Missouri State schedule non-conference games with those from the Sun Belt, MAC, American and Mountain West more often in the near future.
Future contracts with Group of 5 opponents are now more likely to include return games to Springfield without the guaranteed payment. It will look more like Missouri State’s home-and-home deal with ACC program SMU, where they will play one game in Springfield and one in Dallas. Don’t expect Missouri State to land many home-and-home deals with programs from the SEC, Big Ten, ACC or Big 12 often.
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Deadspin | No. 9 Missouri seeks improvement entering clash with Buffalo
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No. 9 Missouri will look to clean up its passing attack when it faces Buffalo on Saturday in Columbia, Mo.
The Tigers (1-0) routed Murray State 51-0 in its season opener. Quarterback Brady Cook completed 20 of 31 passes for 228 yards and a TD, but he failed to connect on multiple downfield throws.
Coach Eliah Drinkwitz will seek improvement against the Bulls (1-0) this weekend.
“It starts with fundamentals, route depth, timing, the quarterback setting his feet when he makes a throw,” Drinkwitz said after reviewing the game tape. “Not drifting after he throws the ball to get ready to go do a celebration, finish the throw, (and) have your feet set in the pocket. Wide receivers have got to run their routes at the correct depth. They’ve got to explode out of them. The quarterback has got to make the throws.”
The Tigers completed passes for 11 different targets, with preseason All-American Luther Burden III catching four passes for 49 yards and a touchdown.
Buffalo opened its season with a 30-13 victory over Lafayette in first-year coach Pete Lembo’s debut. The Bulls built a 403-223 total yards advantage.
Lembo spent the past three seasons as associate head coach and special teams coordinator at South Carolina, so he knows Missouri well.
“I faced these guys the last three years in the SEC and just have tremendous respect for how they have built this program,” Lembo said. “Coach Drinkwitz is really the mastermind behind this whole thing.
“He’s a fantastic offensive coach He’s had success offensively everywhere he’s been from the high school ranks all the way up the Power 5.”
Bulls linebacker Shaun Dolac earned MAC Defensive Player of the Week honors by making 11 tackles, including two for loss (one sack), and grabbing an interception.
“You can tell he studies tape,” Drinkwitz said. “You can tell he’s a very smart, physical player at the point of contact. They utilize him in the box. Out of the box, they pressure with him. So he’s a really good player. It’s going to be a real challenge for us. He’s consistent with what you see in our league.”
Missouri is familiar with Bulls quarterback C.J. Ogbonna, who completed 14 of 24 passes for 195 yards and two touchdowns against Lafayette.
Ogbonna transferred from Southeast Missouri State, which lost 59-28 at Missouri in 2021. In that game Ogbonna rushed for 96 yards on 12 carries and completed 7 of 14 passes for 53 yards with run-pass option plays.
“We’ve got to do a good job in the read game,” Drinkwitz said. “They try to get on your edges through zone reads, plus-one run schemes and options, so we have to be disciplined and multiple in the way we’re challenging those read schemes.”
Buffalo pounded the ball on the ground versus Lafayette with five running backs combining for 41 carries. The Bulls figure to rotate backs again this week.
“I feel like we have a lot of backs that can do a lot of different things,” said Jacqez Barksdale, who ran for 99 yards and a touchdown on 14 carries against Lafayette. “I consider myself to be a power back and we have other great backs that have different abilities. I feel like that will help us against Missouri, coming in and showing them a few different things.”
–Field Level Media
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Eli Drinkwitz ‘Concerned’ with This Area of Missouri’s Passing Offense
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The Missouri Tigers passing offense had a strong debut for the 2024 season, but it certainly wasn’t perfect. In the 51-0 win over Murray State, quarterback Brady Cook threw for 228 yards and a touchdown, completing 31 of his 20 attempts. However, he was innacurate on each of his four failed attempts on throws over 20 yards.
But the deep-ball accuracy is not what head coach Eli Drinkwitz is concerned about. Cook, now in his third year as Missouri’s starter, has proven in games and in practice that he can connect with receivers down in the field.
Drinkwitz is more worried about the passing attack’s execution on key plays.
“We do need to be more consistent in the throw game,” Drinkwitz said in his weekly press conference Tuesday. “The third downs that we missed were concerning for me. There’s plenty for us to work on, plenty for us to be concerned with that we need to correct, and we need to really do a good job.”
Missouri attempted a pass on seven third-down plays throughout the game. Only three were enough to move the chains. This led to the Tigers punting on two drives and having to settle for field goals on two others, leaving plenty of potential points on the board.
When Drinkwitz was asked what is needed to improve in this area, he put an emphasis on both the quarterbacks and receivers having better timing and focus on the details.
“It starts with fundamentals, route depth, timing, the quarterback setting his feet when he makes throws, mot drifting after he throws the ball to get ready to go do a celebration,” Drinkwitz said. “Finish the throw, have your feet set in the pocket. Wide receivers gotta run their routes at the correct depth. They have to explode out and the quarterbacks have to make the throws.”
Drinkwitz added that these have been key focuses of practice early on this week in individual, walk through and team sections.
Missouri will get their next chance to improve in this area Saturday, when it hosts Buffalo at 6 p.m. for week two of the college football season.
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Missouri man arrested in 35-year-old cold case murder investigation
BONNE TERRE, Mo. – Authorities arrested a Missouri man over the weekend in connection with a 35-year-old cold case murder investigation.
Wesley P. Marler, 69, of Bonne Terre, Missouri, was arrested Friday. He is accused in the death of Jimmie Wade Martin from Oct. 14, 1989, also in Bonne Terre, Missouri.
Investigators say Martin died after he was found beaten and wounded in front a home near the Coal Bin Tavern. While a suspect was reportedly charged at the time, the case never went to trial.
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In December 2020, the St. Francois County Sheriff’s Office and Missouri Highway Patrol began a review of the investigation into Martin’s death. In a statement announcing that the case would be reopened three years ago, authorities say they hoped technologies that didn’t exist in 1989 can help bring resolution.
On August 22, 2024, a St. Francois County Grand Jury indicted Marler with one count of first-degree assault in connection with Martin’s death. A warrant was issued for Marler’s arrest last Friday, leading to his arrest, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol.
Marler was sent to the St. Francois County Jail, where he is being held on a $500,000 bond.
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