Nebraska, Penn State, Florida, SMU to play volleyball exhibition with $1 million in NIL prizes

Four premier women’s college volleyball programs will compete on Aug. 27 at AT&T Stadium in a nationally televised exhibition with a $1 million prize purse, the largest ever in women’s college sports.Nebraska, Penn State, Florida and SMU are set to headline the first-of-its-kind, three-hour primetime event, named Spikes Under the Lights. Two semifinal matches and a championship will be played in a best-of-three-set format at the 100,000-seat home of the Dallas Cowboys. Standard college matches are contested as best of five. Results will not count toward the teams’ regular-season records.Advertisement