Will money talk? College football showdowns begin new chapter of NIL era

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00:00The first season of college football's pay-for-play era has arrived.

00:04The Week 1 schedule with three top 10 matchups proves why the biggest teams and the biggest stars are breaking the bank.

00:12How much they're being paid, however, may surprise you.

00:18With each school now allowed to pay its players directly from its own pool of $20.5 million,

00:24the amount of money going to college football players in the Power Four conferences is expected to double in 2025,

00:32according to NIL Marketplace and tech company Open Doors.

00:36Last year, with endorsements from collectives and other commercial payments,

00:40football players in the major conferences made a total of $1 billion.

00:44This season, those payments are expected to reach $1.9 billion,

00:49with the revenue sharing from schools accounting for $1.4 billion of that.

00:54The total shoots up to $2.4 billion in 2026 and $2.6 billion in 2027.

01:01Whether all those billions are worth it is up for debate,

01:05but consider the Week 1 schedule of prime matchups with games that could change the trajectory of the entire season.

01:12Top-ranked Texas and third-ranked Ohio State will kick things off.

01:16It's a rematch of their college football playoff semifinal in January,

01:20won by the eventual national champion Buckeyes.

01:22They are also the top two revenue-producing schools in the country.

01:27Ohio State head coach Ryan Day believes his guys are ready.

01:30I think it's great for college football playing a game like this opening weekend.

01:34And I have a tremendous amount of respect for Sark, for his coaching staff, for the players.

01:41And we're excited to play these guys.

01:43You know, it's rare that you would, you know, kind of play someone like this towards the end of the season

01:47and start the regular season with them.

01:49But here we are.

01:50A pair of Tigers will decide which Death Valley is more deserving,

01:54as fourth-ranked Clemson plays host to ninth-ranked LSU.

01:58Two veteran quarterbacks, Clemson's Kate Klubnick and LSU's Garrett Nussmeyer,

02:03will try and give their respective programs a leg up in the playoff race under the lights Saturday night.

02:09Very storied program, and obviously, you know, they have a really cool environment there.

02:14So I think, for one, just embracing that opportunity to go into an arena like that,

02:18to a place like that, you know, and to try and silence the crowd, I guess you could say.

02:23You know, that's kind of your mindset when you're playing a big road game.

02:25All alone in the Sunday spotlight, sixth-ranked Notre Dame visits 10th-ranked Miami,

02:31or as some old-timers like yours truly like to call it, Catholics versus convicts.

02:36Both teams are replacing star quarterbacks, but had the money to restock.

02:41The Hurricanes paid former Georgia star Carson Beck more than $6 million to keep their playoff hopes intact.

02:48He's trying to stay grounded before kickoff.

02:51They're stout all across the board, very talented team with a great coach.

02:55And again, like I said, it's just another football game, right?

02:59Like, that's the motto, that's the mindset, and another opportunity for us to compete, right?

03:03It's the first game. Everyone's super excited, super pumped, and, you know, we're ready for the challenge.

03:09Also this weekend, No. 8 Alabama heads to Tallahassee to take on unranked Florida State.

03:15A stumble by the Crimson Tide, however, could put a big dent in their playoff hopes

03:19should they need a tiebreaker with the committee in December.

03:23For Straight Arrow News, I'm Chris Francis.

03:25Since it's a C Brandon Johnson, I'm Chris Riccik.

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