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Yahoo
8 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Texas to be paid based on how often users play with Longhorns on EA College Football 26
The University of Texas will be paid based on how many users play EA College Football 26 using the Longhorns. The "play-for-pay" model is a change on the way the video company pays for Name Image Likeness (NIL) rights to participating schools. According to Matt Liberman of beginning on the game's release on July 10, all 136 FBS schools that opted into the game will be compensated by their popularity with gamers. 'For each CFB product released by EA SPORTS, we (CLC Learfield) will provide a percentage for each institution based on the games played for that institution as a percentage of the total games played across all institutions. This percentage of games played will become the final allocation percentage for each school that will be applied to the total gross royalties for all institutions received.' - EA document obtained by cllct Advertisement Previously, teams were divided into five tiers based on a decade of AP rankings. Tier 1 earned just shy of $100,000, while Tier 5 made less than $10,000. Texas was in Tier 2 and earned just short of $60,000. Players this season will receive a raise from the $600 all but Arch Manning earned last season. Players can earn up to $3,000 based on negotiations with EA and NIL partner Pathway Sports & Entertainment. College Football 26 will be released on July 10. Last year's version became the most widely played sports video game of all time with more than 1.7 billion streams of the game. Follow us on X (formerly Twitter) at @LonghornsWire. This article originally appeared on Longhorns Wire: EA CFB26 to pay Texas based on how often users play with Longhorns
San Francisco Chronicle
10 hours ago
- Business
- San Francisco Chronicle
Sacramento State's FBS waiver denied, sparking backlash and the potential for lawsuit
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The NCAA has rejected a waiver request from Sacramento State that would have allowed it to play in the Football Bowl Subdivision as an independent next year. Sacramento State last week said it will leave the Big Sky and join the Big West Conference as a full member starting with the 2026-27 academic year. The Big West doesn't sponsor football so Sacramento State's program will be an independent in that sport in the Championship Subdivision. Lacking an invitation from an FBS conference, the university filed the NCAA petition in April and the D-I Council turned it down this week. School president Luke Wood said he disagreed with the decision. 'Sacramento State has met every meaningful benchmark for FBS membership, and we believe our university, our students, and the entire Sacramento region deserve major college football," Wood wrote in a statement posted to X. "We're full steam ahead and we still plan to be playing FBS football in 2026.' Wood did not provide details of potential next steps. Boise State law professor Sam Ehrlich said on X that legal action could be an option. 'This will lead to litigation. Forcing a school to rely on the whims of conferences (to) let them compete for the economic benefits of a higher division is just the sort of arbitrary gatekeeping that draws harsh antitrust scrutiny,' Ehrlich wrote. ___
Miami Herald
13 hours ago
- Sport
- Miami Herald
Florida State Football Preview 2025: Seminoles Season Prediction, Win Total Projection, Top Players
Florida State Seminoles Key to the Season Get better offensive line were 134 FBS teams last season, and 133 of them allowed fewer than four sacks per game. Florida State is the one team that didn't. In 2023, the Noles allowed 1.79 sacks per four teams allowed more tackles for loss, only five teams were worse at running the ball, and all this from an attack that was among the best in the country at cranking out big runs just two seasons starts with this. More time to work, longer drives, and a more productive defense, so … X CFN, Fiu | CFN Facebook | Bluesky Fiu, CFN 2025 Florida State PreviewFlorida State Offense BreakdownFlorida State Defense Breakdown Florida State Seminoles Key Player Luke Petitbon, C enough versatility to figure out the other four spots up front, but Petitbon has to be a true leader for the completely rebuilt line. An All-ACC blocker for Wake Forest, the 6-2, 303-pound veteran of four seasons has to be the steadying force for an offense that changes out just about everyone. Florida State Seminoles Top Transfer, Biggest Transfer Loss Top Transfer In: Duce Robinson, WR passing game didn't work. The quarterbacks didn't have time, the rushing attack failed to help the cause, and the receivers weren't able to show off. There were plenty of talent losses, but getting Robinson from USC makes up for wasn't a volume catcher in his first two seasons, but he made huge things happen, averaging over 19 yards per grab. Top Transfer Out: Patrick Payton, EDGE Sr.A future NFL starter, Payton was a key part of the defense over the last three years with 110 tackles, 16 sacks, and 32 tackles for loss. FSU was able to find a few nice options up front to pick up the slack, but they don't have anyone like Payton, who's now off to LSU. Florida State Seminoles Key Game Alabama, Aug. 30After going 1-11 in its last 12 games against FBS teams, no team in college football needs a big Week 1 showing more desperately than Florida State. Pull this off, and everything last time these two met, the hype was high for a good Seminole team coming off a big 2016. Bama hurt quarterback Deandre Francois in a season-opening 24-7 win, and the FSU program wasn't good at football again until 2022.- 2025 Florida State Schedule Breakdown Florida State Seminoles Top 10 Players 1. Darrell Jackson, DT Sr. 2. Duce Robinson, WR Jr.3. Jeremiah Wilson, CB Sr. 4. Shyheim Brown, S Sr.5. James Williams, EDGE Jr.6. Tommy Castellanos, QB Sr.7. Luke Petitbon, C Sr.8. KJ Kirkland, S Soph.9. Stefon Thompson, LB Sr.10. Elijah Herring, LB Sr. Florida State Seminoles 2024 Fun Stats - First Half Scoring: Opponents 167, Florida State 82- Fumbles: Florida State 22 (lost 9), Opponents 9 (lost 2)- Interceptions Thrown: Florida State 13, Opponents 4 Florida State Seminoles 2025 Season Prediction, Win Total, What Will Happen Really, is Florida State back to where it's supposed to be?There's talent, and things will be far better than they were last year, but it won't be 2023. This year's schedule is far more difficult than that, but it's not quite as tough as last year's, when FSU played five teams that finished with ten or more Alabama opener is an obvious problem, but the Noles should be, at worst, 3-1 when Miami comes to town. There's a real shot at a 6-2 record, and maybe 7-1 with a little luck before going to Clemson. Clemson, NC State, and Florida - FSU closes with three road games in the final four put the win total a tad too low, just because of all the turnover. This should be a 7-to-8-win team, and at the very least, it should get back to a bowl game for the third time in six The Florida State Win Total At … 6.5Likely Wins: East Texas A&M, Kent State, at Stanford, Wake Forest50/50 Games: at Florida, Miami, at NC State, Pitt, at Virginia, Virginia TechLikely Losses: Alabama, at Clemson 2025 Florida State PreviewFlorida State Offense BreakdownFlorida State Defense Breakdown © 2025 The Arena Group Holdings, Inc. All rights reserved.
New York Times
15 hours ago
- Entertainment
- New York Times
CFB's new best Group of 5 conference, plus why Wisconsin-Miami suit matters
Until Saturday Newsletter 🏈 | This is The Athletic's college football newsletter. Sign up here to receive Until Saturday directly in your inbox. Today in college football news, 'The Phoenician Scheme' ranks as Wes Anderson's third-weirdest movie behind 'Asteroid City' and 'The French Dispatch.' My top three remain 'The Fantastic Mr. Fox,' 'Asteroid City' and … hmm … 'Rushmore.' (On that note, here's the New York Times' new list of the 100 best movies of the 21st century, where two Wes movies I did not mention are in the top 25.) Let's be straightforward: Here come 700 words about the Sun Belt Conference. They're part of Until Saturday's haphazardly formatted 2025 conference preview series. (Those words will be followed by some actual CFB news, some lil jokes from your fellow Until Saturdayers and some free Stewart Mandel.) 1. ICYMI, the Sun Belt is good at football now. Three times in the 2010s, it was the worst conference in FBS, according to Sports Reference's SRS rating (and the human eyeball). That has flipped, and quickly. For the past two seasons, it's been the best Group of 5 league, based on those same metrics (or at least the SRS one). No longer The Southern Version Of The MAC, it now compares to the American and the current Mountain West — and maybe even the future Pac-12. One of the main reasons? Drawing high-quality upgrades straight from FCS. The winningest three-year FBS debuts since 1978, when Division I split into two levels, with current Sun Belt teams bolded: Sure, Marshall only left Conference USA for the SBC in 2022, but even that furthers the point. The SBC used to be at the bottom of the food chain. Now teams in CUSA aspire toward the SBC. (More on that below!) 2. As the latest hot starter, JMU is also uniquely fascinating. Public interest trailed off a bit after the Dukes' 'College GameDay' era in 2023, but they still dumped 70 on poor Mack Brown last year and won the program's first bowl. They're again right in the mix among this year's SBC favorites (more on that below), and with no particular end in sight. On that latter part, I turned to The Athletic's Justin Williams — author of a great explainer on JMU's whole deal — with a longer-term question on the 23,000-student school's football program: Which sounds likelier, a decade from now: JMU appearing in rumors about joining whatever the ACC might be? Or JMU having a decent cruising altitude in pre-Christmas bowl games, a la App State? 'Long term, it's hard to see JMU being content with pretty good. This is a school that was very deliberate about how and when it made the jump from FCS to FBS, because it was determined to avoid any setbacks from that transition. Outsiders fixate on the advantages of JMU's institutional support, but the fact that it has largely translated to growth and success is validating. Who knows what FBS football will look like 10 years from now — I suspect the power conferences could get smaller, not bigger, and that's a tough hierarchy for the Dukes to climb. But I also expect JMU will continue to be ambitious.' 3. Circling back to reigning Sun Belt champ Marshall, things are not as good as they were in 1999. But enough about Pizza Hut buffets. To me, the Sun Belt's second-most fascinating team this year is the one that had to skip its bowl game seven months ago because half the university had just departed for Southern Miss (which I guess thus ranks as the Sun Belt's third-most fascinating team). What will Marshall look like in year one under former NC State defensive coordinator Tony Gibson, with almost literally the entire two-deep overhauled? This week, I asked around about that. Everyone shrugged at me. Journalism. ✅ Moving on. 4. Overall, the Sun Belt might have this season's most competitive race of any FBS conference. Hell yeah, man. Now you're ready for some October weeknight football. 🤔 Well, you're pretty much guaranteed to click this one: What's the worst program Nick Saban could've led to a national title? Matt Baker nerded way the hell out on this one, and there's also a survey of 17 The Athletic staffers, which reveals at least one of us views almost every Power 4 team as a theoretical Saban champ. 🐝 Sacramento State has relatively big money and undeniably big names (Shaq!), but an NCAA committee just shot down the Hornets' FBS bid. Christopher Kamrani and Stewart with a great explainer on Sac State's whole deal. 🏹 What's it like to raise a kid all but guaranteed to be one of the most hyped CFB prospects ever? Bruce Feldman asked Arch Manning's parents. 📰 Elsewhere in college sports: 'The Trump administration announced Wednesday that the California Department of Education must forbid schools from allowing transgender girls to compete in girls' sports … or 'risk imminent enforcement action.'' The Pac-12 is indeed adding Texas State, Chris Vannini confirms. Chris adds, 'To fill the Bobcats' spot, the Sun Belt is expected to move quickly and is focused on Louisiana Tech or Western Kentucky from CUSA.' (See?) Meanwhile, earlier this week, Until Saturday readers responded to a call for other non-Western candidates the Pac-12 should consider, now that geography no longer matters, thanks to the conferences that tried to kill the Pac-12. Advertisement You had some great ideas. Peter recommended Pennsylvania Western University (in California, Pennsylvania). Hailey went with East Carolina, Eastern Michigan, East Tennessee State, etc. Dan brought us 'the University of Maine at Machias, THE most eastern team in the country.' All approved. Most importantly, Nathaniel broke out a comprehensive case for the Pac-12 ensuring all of its football members continue to have 'State' in their names: 'The obvious next choice for Pac-12 expansion is Florida State. '1. Adds the Florida footprint to the premier West Coast conference. '2. A built-in rivalry with Fresno State. Who's the REAL FSU?? '3. In their filing against the ACC, Florida State said they would have preferred adding Oregon State instead of Cal and Stanford. Now's your chance, Noles. 'The answer is too obvious for it to ever happen, but as we have seen, the simplest solution is always the most elusive in college football.' Tallahassee is very near the west coast of a coastal state, after all. With respect to the lawsuit by Wisconsin against Miami, what should fans really be thinking about this? Fans of Wisconsin? Fans of Miami? Fans of other power schools? Etc. — Brian H., Madison, Wis. Every fan of every school, not just Wisconsin and Miami, should be paying close attention to this fascinating suit, because it could have major ramifications for the future of the sport. Obviously, the House era in college athletics is brand new, and it appears Wisconsin is eager to set legal precedent affirming that a school-issued NIL contract binds a player to his or her school in a way outside collective deals could not. If Wisconsin succeeds, it could become a far more effective deterrent to schools poaching other teams' players than the NCAA's tampering rule, which is rarely enforced and only a minor penalty if it is. But there's an interesting subplot at play here. While transferring cornerback Xavier Lucas' deal is not public, I have previously obtained several other schools' rev-share contracts, including from one Big Ten school that uses the same template language as others. It has language specifying that it's not an employment agreement and not to be construed as pay-for-play. Which would seem to stand in direct conflict with Wisconsin's assertion that the deal bound Lucas to its team. Either Lucas' contract has different wording that says it is dependent on his participation in the program or the school is saying it would not have tendered the contract if not for Lucas' word that he would continue playing there. Obviously, not all lawsuits make it to trial, but I hope this one at least makes it to discovery, so we can peel back the curtain on how the portal and (alleged) tampering work. More Mandel mailbag here. Have a good weekend, y'all. I read and appreciate all emails to untilsaturday@ Check out The Athletic's other newsletters.
Business Insider
18 hours ago
- Business
- Business Insider
Bitcoin at the Crossroads: FBS Analysts Look at What's Next
FBS, one of the leading global brokers, has released a new market analysis asking the big question: " Has Bitcoin's bull run peaked — or is another major rally still ahead in 2025?". According to the article, Bitcoin is now trading between $106,000 and $110,000. Some traders believe this is just a pause before the final surge, while others think the market may have already reached its high point. FBS analysts say this cycle follows a familiar pattern seen in the past. Historically, Bitcoin often rises strongly about a year after its 'halving' — a regular event that reduces the new coin supply. The last halving happened in April 2024, and Bitcoin has already grown over 600% from its 2022 lows. That growth is similar to what happened in past cycles. 'Bitcoin is holding strong, even during short-term drops,' FBS experts explain. 'This shows demand is high — especially from large investors and new ETFs.' So far in 2025, Bitcoin ETFs in the US have attracted over $5 billion, and now manage more than $130 billion in assets. Many large companies are also buying and holding Bitcoin as part of their long-term plans. However, there are also warnings to watch. Market sentiment is getting very optimistic — a sign that some investors may be acting out of fear of missing out. Leveraged trading is on the rise again, which can lead to big swings in price. Some analysts believe this may signal that the top is near. Global events add more uncertainty. In June, tensions in the Middle East caused Bitcoin to drop suddenly, reminding traders that crypto still reacts to fear and global risks. At the same time, new crypto regulations in the US and Europe could either help Bitcoin grow — or slow it down, depending on how they are applied. Despite these risks, many analysts remain positive. Big banks now expect Bitcoin to reach $200,000 by the end of 2025, driven by strong demand, more investment, and easier monetary policy. 'Bitcoin could still climb higher — especially if the US starts cutting interest rates later this year,' FBS analysts say. 'But it's important for traders to manage risks and stay prepared.' Users can read the full Bitcoin cycle outlook in the latest FBS analysis. About FBS FBS is a global brand that unites several independent brokerage companies under the licenses of FSC (Belize), CySEC (Cyprus), and ASIC (Australia). With 16 years of experience and over 100 international awards, FBS is steadily developing as one of the market's most trusted brokers. Today, FBS serves over 27 000 000 traders and more than 700 000 partners around the globe. Contact FBS
