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Commission overstated OK’d NIL deals by $44.4M
The College Sports Commission sent out a correction Friday, saying it had overstated the amount of name, image, likeness deals it has cleared by more than $40 million in a data set it made public a day earlier.
The commission blamed a clerical reporting error in data provided by Deloitte, which helped develop the platform called NIL Go.
The most jarring of the errors: The total value of deals cleared was $35.42 million instead of the $79.8 million previously announced. The $79.8 million is the total amount of all deals in the system, including those that are still pending.
The CSC also said that 6.090 deals had been approved, not the previously reported number of 8.359, which is the total number of deals in the system to date.
“We take full responsibility for this reporting error,” Deloitte said in a statement. “We have taken additional measures to avoid any future recurrence and are fully confident in the NIL Go platform.”
The platform was created as part of the House settlement, which allows schools to pay athletes directly for their NIL, while also offering them a chance to make money from outside groups. The CSC is using NIL Go to analyze the outside deals worth $600 or more.
The CSC is releasing figures periodically in what it has said is an effort for transparency as it undertakes the difficult task of sorting through thousands of business deals made by athletes, whose eligibility is at stake if the contracts aren’t deemed to be within the guidelines.
The mistake offers a window into the enormity of the task for the CSC, which opened July 1 and last month was operating with fewer than a half-dozen full-time employees.
The CSC said most deals are being cleared within a week, but acknowledged frustration in the length of time it takes in some cases.
“The CSC is working diligently to speed up wait times and regrets the frustration caused by these initial delays in the process,” it said in a statement. “As with any new system of this scale, some early delays and growing pains are inevitable.”
The commission did not report errors in other statistics it released Thursday, including the 332 deals that had not been cleared and 75 that had been resubmitted.
It also said there were 2,003 deals pending, about half of which were awaiting more information and the other half of which were under active review.
If, come April 6, the Big Ten has ended its quarter-century national championship drought, it still won’t change an uncomfortable fact: Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, no conference has done less with more in the NCAA tournament.
The Big Ten has averaged exactly eight NCAA tournament bids in each of the past five seasons. That’s 40 teams altogether — and all 40 have gone home with a loss. The record of this 18-team conference in the Big Dance is just six games over .500 (46-40), which should be impossible with a team seed average under six (5.97 to be exact).
So either five selection committees have underperformed when it counts, or the league itself has. And, well, we all know where the bodies are buried: No. 8 seed Loyola Chicago over 1-seed Illinois in 2021 (round of 32), No. 15 Saint Peter’s over 3-seed Purdue in 2022 (Sweet 16), No. 16 Fairleigh Dickinson over 1-seed Purdue in 2023 (round of 64). You get the idea.
But it began to change this past March. Four of eight Big Ten teams made the second weekend, with Michigan State reaching the Elite Eight. For a change, the conference played to its seed across the board.
We’ll see this March (and April?) whether that was a trend or a one-off. This Bracketologist is betting on the former.
The Big Ten begins conference play on Dec. 2.
Final Four contenders
Michigan Wolverines
Purdue Boilermakers
Michigan State Spartans
Illinois Fighting Illini
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The Wildcats shoot 35 percent from the field against the Spartans’ 50 percent as they struggle to keep up in the 83-66 loss in Madison Square Garden.
Michigan sits atop the first Bracketology of December and Purdue is No. 1 in both wire service polls. Both are legitimate national championship contenders. At least two others appear good enough to win four games and play into April.
Likely tournament teams
Indiana Hoosiers
USC Trojans
Nebraska Cornhuskers
Wisconsin Badgers
UCLA Bruins
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Bethune-Cookman Wildcats vs. Indiana Hoosiers: Game Highlights
Bethune-Cookman Wildcats vs. Indiana Hoosiers: Game Highlights
Indiana and Nebraska are the most interesting names in this group. The Hoosiers haven’t gotten it right in a long time, winning only one tournament game in the past decade. With the benefit of hindsight, three Sweet 16 teams under Tom Crean from 2012-2016 is looking pretty good. Meanwhile, the Cornhuskers remain the only power conference team to never win an NCAA tournament game. That has a real chance of changing in 2026.
Possible tournament teams
Ohio State Buckeyes
Northwestern Wildcats
Washington Huskies
Oregon Ducks
Maryland Terrapins
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Arrinten Page wins it for Northwestern as time expires
If form holds, at least a couple from this group will be smiling on Selection Sunday. Ohio State fell just outside the previous group and should make it. Even if the Buckeyes are the only one from this group, the conference is going to send double-digit teams dancing for the first time.
Sleeper team
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Ole Miss Rebels vs. Iowa Hawkeyes: Game Highlights
Ole Miss Rebels vs. Iowa Hawkeyes: Game Highlights
It’s hard not to be fascinated by the Hawkeyes, who are transitioning from the scoring machines of the Fran McCaffery era to the sub-350 tempo of the Ben McCollum era. Iowa fans will take whatever results in deep runs, and so far, so good. The Hawkeyes open Big Ten play in the top 30 in both adjusted offensive and defensive efficiency, according to KenPom.
Long shots
Penn State Nittany Lions
Rutgers Scarlet Knights
Minnesota Golden Gophers
Rutgers might never again recruit the likes of Dylan Harper and Ace Bailey, and as such will always have an uphill climb to the NCAA tournament. Penn State and Minnesota can be good on a regular basis, but the sheer number of teams they need to pass in a league this deep is daunting.
Key games to watch
Illinois vs. Tennessee in Nashville (Saturday)
Michigan at Michigan State (Jan. 30)
Michigan at Purdue (Feb. 17)
Michigan vs. Duke in Washington, D.C. (Feb. 21)
Michigan State at Purdue (Feb. 26)
STANFORD, Calif. — Frederico Jucá Carsalade scored with one second remaining to cap a four-goal fourth quarter, and UCLA rallied to beat USC 11-10 to win the men’s water polo championship on Sunday at the Avery Aquatic Center.
It was the 14th championship for the second-seeded and defending champion Bruins (27-2), winning back-to-back titles for the fifth time.
USC (23-4), the top seed, was aiming for its 11th title — all since 1998 — in a tournament that began in 1969. The Trojans won six in a row from 2008-13.
Chase Dodd scored twice to help UCLA to a 3-1 lead after the first quarter.
Stefan Branovic added his second goal to cut it to 3-2 and Jack Vort scored twice in a four-goal run over the final 4:41 to give the Trojans a 6-4 lead at halftime.
USC twice took two-goal leads in the third quarter on scores by Vort and Efe Naipoglu, but Jucá Carsalade scored with 31 seconds left to make it 8-7.
Ryder Dodd scored back-to-back goals — the first after a penalty on Vort — and the Bruins led 10-9 with 2:35 remaining. Jack Martin scored with a man advantage for USC to tie it 32 seconds later.
The two teams split four matches this season.
UCLA beat Stanford 9-7 in the semifinals and USC beat Fordham 16-7 to advance.
UCLA beat USC 11-8 to win the championship last season after Cal beat the Bruins 13-11 in the title game the year before. Cal beat USC 13-12 in 2021 and 2022 to win the championship.
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Week 14 of the 2025 NFL season is nearly in the books and the playoff picture did get a bit clearer.
The Pittsburgh Steelers, Jacksonville Jaguars and Green Bay Packers each took sole possession of first place in their respective divisions – the Steelers in the AFC North, the Jaguars in the AFC South and the Packers in the NFC North. Each team had huge wins against divisional opponents that will definitely pay their dividends in a few weeks.
Elsewhere, the Los Angeles Rams and Seattle Seahawks stayed at the top of the NFC West division with the San Francisco 49ers just one game behind both teams. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers suffered an upset loss at home to the New Orleans Saints. They have the edge over the Carolina Panthers in the NFC South, but both teams are now 7-6.
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Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen (17) scrambles away from Cincinnati Bengals linebacker Oren Burks (42) during the second half of an NFL football game, Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025, in Orchard Park, New York. (Gene J. Puskar/AP Photo)
Read below to see how the rest of the games turned out.
Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025
Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025
- Seattle Seahawks 37, Atlanta Falcons 9
- Buffalo Bills 39, Cincinnati Bengals 34
- Tennessee Titans 31, Cleveland Browns 29
- Minnesota Vikings 31, Washington Commanders 0
- Miami Dolphins 34, New York Jets 10
- New Orleans Saints 24, Tampa Bay Buccaneers 20
Jacksonville Jaguars kicker Cam Little (39) signals as he hit a field goal against the Indianapolis Colts during the second half of an NFL football game, Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025, in Jacksonville, Florida. (Phelan M. Ebenhack/AP Photo)
- Jacksonville Jaguars 36, Indianapolis Colts 19
- Pittsburgh Steelers 27, Baltimore Ravens 22
- Denver Broncos 24, Las Vegas Raiders 17
- Green Bay Packers 28, Chicago Bears 21
- Los Angeles Rams 45, Arizona Cardinals 17
- Houston Texans @ Kansas City Chiefs
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Los Angeles Rams tight end Colby Parkinson, left, avoids Arizona Cardinals safety Budda Baker after pulling in a pass in the first half of an NFL football game Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025, in Glendale, Arizona. (Ross D. Franklin/AP Photo)
Monday, Dec. 8, 2025
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