July 31, 2026
The Southeastern Conference and the Big Ten — the country's two most powerful college athletics conferences — agreed Friday night to support a sweeping Senate bill that would impose new federal rules on college sports.
The conferences have been wrangling with the Senate Commerce Committee for weeks over details of the bill — which would limit how large conferences could expand to and how much money they could spend compensating student athletes — as they said various iterations of legislative text fell short of addressing their outstanding concerns.
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