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The 20-Team Cap Forces Nobody Out. The SEC Has Four Seats.
The Protect College Sports Act caps Power Four conferences at 20 members, and the projections started the same day. The provision does not do what the projections assume.
Section 205 sits in the bill's broadcasting title, not the athlete title, and it is built as a merger rule. The Congressional Budget Office's own cost estimate describes it as prohibiting large football conferences — those with annual revenues above $700 million — "from acquiring the assets, media rights, or membership of another similar conference or institution." It bars acquiring. It does not order anyone to shed members…
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