Need $45 million in NIL. Have to be within $10 mill of OSU, Oregon to have a good chance at winning.
----Digging into those numbers, we find that a difference of $5 million to $10 million between two schools is not particularly significant. In those matchups, the higher-paid team is a modest 23-19 against the lower-paid teams. But when the gap exceeds $10 million, the results become more predictable. The higher-paid teams are 42-11 when the rosters are at least $11-15 million apart, including 15-5 with a gap of $20 million or more.--the Athletic based on this years outcomes.