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With playoffs kicking off Friday, it's a bigger than usual week for college football, but it's also been a huge year.
College athletes have been getting paid.
Arch Manning, 3.1 mil, I believe there's an athlete, currently a high school prospect.
Unnamed, apparently getting an $8 million nil deal.
So I gotta talk about Cam ward, man.
But $2 million deal with Adidas.
The biggest deal of the year was a whopping 10 million dol million dollars reportedly paid out to quarterback Bryce Underwood to change his commitment from LSU to Michigan.
But what's kind of weird about these deals is that the schools aren't necessarily the ones paying out.
Bryce's millions apparently came at least partly from the tech billionaire Larry Ellison, all because his fifth wife went to the University of Michigan.
We're gonna figure out what's going on in college sports on today.
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