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A new era of college sports is officially upon us.

On Friday, Federal Judge Claudia Wilken, who has presided over multiple landmark NCAA cases in the past, approved the settlement, giving it the legal weight needed to move forward.

With the House v. NCAA settlement approved, here is what the timeline looks like in the next few months, per the new College Sports Commission: https://t.co/aNV6udOuCK pic.twitter.com/qdI9sXP3TU

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The deal can be broken into three parts: reimbursing former student-athletes who narrowly missed out on the NIL era, compensating future student-athletes directly from school revenue, and implementing a laundry list of new roster and enforcement rules.

$2.77 billion in back payments wil

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