- The SEC’s stakeholders departed last week’s meetings with no decisions and, more pressing, no deeper understanding of the CFP’s real question — whether there’s actually enough new money to justify a jump from 12 to 24 teams. That question sits at the center of a CFP stalemate, as my SBJ colleague Austin Karp and I report in this week’s magazine.
- Altius was born in the early days of the NIL era. While that remains a key part of the company’s operations, Altius has made a recent and intentional pivot toward broader college sports consulting.
- Yankees President Randy Levine, a leader of President Trump’s Council on College Sports, told SBJ’s Mike Mazzeo the feedback he received from his committee and others was that the Protect College Sports Act covers 80% of what is needed to solve the problems caused by an NCAA system that is broken and unsustainable.
- Utah DE Lance Holtzclaw is slated to be among those in D.C. this week to provide an athlete’s perspective during a Senate Commerce Committee hearing into college sports.

