(The Center Square) – Seven big games in the Southeastern Conference alone, hundreds of players, all headed toward the billions college football generates in the 21st century.

And with it on this fall Saturday in October, plenty of those “getting to be familiar” advertisements during the games not only in the SEC but several other leagues for federal legislation known as the SCORE Act. U.S. Rep. Gus Bilirakis introduced it in July, 10 days after enactment of a $2.8 billion antitrust settlement authorized by a federal judge for NCAA athletes.

Known as the House settlement for former Arizona State swimmer Grant House, it allows each NCAA school – there are 350 in Division I, and 1,100 in all three divisions – to pay athletes for use of their name, image and likeness.

The acronym is NIL, a

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