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College Football Scheduling Glossary

Scheduling terms explain how opponents are arranged, where games are played, and why schedule context matters.

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Buy Game

A game where one program pays another, often a lower-resource opponent, to play at its stadium.

Guarantee Game

Another term for a paid nonconference game, usually involving a payment to the visiting team.

Home-and-Home

A scheduling agreement where two teams play at each other's home stadiums in different seasons.

Neutral-Site Game

A game played at a site that is not the normal home stadium of either team.

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