College athletics have officially entered uncharted territory. After the landmark decision by Judge Claudia Wilken in the House vs. NCAA Settlement case, colleges will be able to share up to $20.5 million of earned revenue with their student-athletes per year.

The term has emerged as the most important part of the long-awaited legal settlement that will greatly reshape college sports, following its approval late last week. This is that House v. NCAA thing that’d been drip-dripping in the news forever, the Colleges Can Now Pay Their Athletes Actual Money thing.

Commissioners of the Power Five conferences pledged to follow the rules set down in the House settlement that is reshaping college athletics.

As the future of college athletics goes through a dramatic change, the University of Colorado is prepared to go all-in.

TNT Sports is expected to expand its College Football Playoff rights by airing one semifinal game annually from 2026 to 2028 in a deal with ESPN, people briefed on the decision told The Athletic. While ESPN owns the broadcast rights to the CFP through the 2031 season,

The specter of private equity money has loomed as a possibility for funding college athletics programs for a while now. Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark floated the possibility of private equity entering the college sports world last summer and he was only one of multiple conference commissioners to do.