College Football’s Fractured Landscape Keeps Lawyers Busy

Aug. 17, 2020, 9:44 AM UTC

Many collegiate sports stadiums across the U.S. will be dark this year, but the phones lines are blinking for lawyers advising clients coping with the financial fallout from a fall without college football.

The decision by two major athletic conferences—the Big Ten and the Pac-12—to scrap their fall sports schedules due to the coronavirus pandemic came as colleges and universities turned to outside counsel to help face a wave of Covid-19 litigation.

At stake: an estimated $1.2 billion in television advertising revenue and up to $100 million a year in revenue for postponed elite football programs.

Big Ten commissioner Kevin ...

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