{"id":82552,"date":"2025-06-07T08:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T08:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/82552\/"},"modified":"2025-06-07T08:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T08:17:10","slug":"ncaa-football-news-gamers-can-help-their-team-earn-nil-money-on-college-football-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/82552\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA football news: Gamers can help their team earn NIL money on College Football 26"},"content":{"rendered":"

The post NCAA football news: Gamers can help their team earn NIL money on College Football 26<\/a> appeared first on ClutchPoints<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Already, EA Sports College Football<\/a> 26 is generating plenty of buzz a month before release. Speculation about Bill Belichick\u2019s appearance<\/a> is certainly palpable.<\/p>\n

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In addition, players will be paid $ 1,500<\/a> for appearing in the game, an increase from $600 in the previous year\u2019s game. Those same players could receive<\/a> NIL money thanks to the gamers themselves, per Darren Rovell of CLLCT media.<\/p>\n

Schools featured in the game could get paid based on how frequently gamers play with their team\u2014a radically innovative approach in the era of NIL for college athletes.<\/p>\n

Athletes will be able to showcase their talents broadly through the game. The players\u2019 exposure could land them sponsorship deals as well as grow their fan bases.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, the players will have their name, image, and likeness on full display throughout the game. Before the NIL era, gamers would solely have to come up with names for players.<\/p>\n

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The players also have the option to opt in or opt out of this deal, allowing them to maintain control over how they utilize their NIL. From a gaming perspective, this sparks a significant shift from the way things were prior to NIL.<\/p>\n

The evolution of gaming and NIL\u00a0<\/p>\n

Before the NIL era, college athletes were barred from earning money from their name, image, and likeness. That included appearances on EA Sports games.<\/p>\n

The straw that broke the camel\u2019s back was the historic O\u2019Bannon vs. NCAA case. In 2009, former UCLA basketball player Ed O\u2019Bannon filed a lawsuit against the NCAA<\/p>\n

He claimed its amateurism rules illegally prevented college athletes from being compensated for their name, image, and likeness.\u00a0 This derived after seeing his image featured on EA Sports\u2019 NCAA Basketball 09 without his consent, nor did he receive any compensation.<\/p>\n

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The outcome resulted in schools being allowed to offer athletic scholarships covering full cost of attendance. In addition, the case ruled that schools could place up to $5,000 into a trust for each athlete to use their NIL.<\/p>\n

Thus paving the way for where we are now regarding video games.<\/p>\n

Related: Judge approves NCAA House Settlement allowing schools to pay players<\/a><\/p>\n

Related: Oregon football\u2019s Evan Stewart gets clarity on diagnosis, timetable for severe injury<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The post NCAA football news: Gamers can help their team earn NIL money on College Football 26 appeared…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,6845,217,18589,18590,231,772,1544,1947],"class_list":{"0":"post-82552","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-college-athletes","10":"tag-college-basketball","11":"tag-darren-rovell","12":"tag-ea-sports-college-football","13":"tag-ncaa","14":"tag-ncaa-basketball","15":"tag-ncaab","16":"tag-nil"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114641098746422551","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}