According to the Fan Buzz website I searched on, the New Mexico bowl paid out about 1 Million dollars to Utah State a few years back for making the bowl game. Tulane got $750,000 for playing in the "Cure Bowl".
The lowest I saw was Georgia Southern getting 250 grand for playing in the "Cameila Bowl".
How much did we get paid to go be the whipping boys for the FBS schools?
You could definitely put me on the edge in this conversation. It would be cool to have a destination type bowl game every year, but you aren't winning a national championship ever again. Which, at the same time is the fate of all the other sports not named hockey at our institution.