{"id":885788,"date":"2026-10-17T18:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T18:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/885788\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T18:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T18:40:10","slug":"watch-byu-fan-win-3m-fg-kick-in-spider-man-costume-in-viral-video-with-pat-mcafee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/885788\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch BYU Fan Win $3M FG Kick in Spider-Man Costume in Viral Video with Pat McAfee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Pat McAfee&#8217;s kicking contest as part of College Gameday has now given out $8.5 million this season after a BYU fan nailed a kick for $3 million on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">The fan, dressed in a full Spider-Man suit except for the mask, made his second attempt after pulling his first kick to receive the $3 million prize. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">The prize money was distributed with $1 million contributions from McAfee, Utah Jazz governor Ryan Smith and Smith&#8217;s business partner Ryan Sweeney. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">The mood in Provo on Saturday was already very positive with ESPN bringing its signature college football preview show to BYU for the first time since 2009 for its matchup with No. 2 Notre Dame. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Entering today, McAfee&#8217;s weekly kicking contest had given away <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong mui-mlpnpn\" href=\"https:\/\/frontofficesports.com\/article\/college-students-won-pat-mcafee-kicking-contest-2026-season\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">$5.5 million<\/a> through the first six weeks. The $3 million prize payout on Saturday is the largest given out so far this season. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pat McAfee&#8217;s kicking contest as part of College Gameday has now given out $8.5 million this season after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":885789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":["post-885788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=885788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/885789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}