[Vocabulary] Students were bused in for the game

[kadioguy]

Hello, everyone.

I read the following example sentence in Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's English Dictionary Online:

Students from the other college were bused in for the game.

What is the difference if I write Students from the other college were bused for the game, or Students from the other college were bused to the game?

Thanks!

 

[jutfrank]

The difference would be that if you wrote bused for the game, people wouldn't understand. (bused to the game would be guessable, I think.)

 

[kadioguy]

The difference would be that if you wrote bused for the game, people wouldn't understand. (bused to the game would be guessable, I think.)

Another example sentence in Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's English Dictionary Online is:

The children are bused to school.

In OALD9:

We were bused from the airport to our hotel.

In LDOCE:

Casey was bussed to the school.

This is why I ask my question, because most example sentence use bus somebody to/in/into something; however, the sentence above in WALED use ...bused in for....