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fewer than one in ten FBS programs can reach the 
championship bracket in a given year); 
Whereas the CFP’s own historical record reflects that cham-
pionship access has been concentrated among a limited 
set of institutions (only 27 teams have appeared in the 
CFP era to date, and one program has appeared nine 
times), reinforcing concerns that a narrow gate can en-
trench incumbent competitive advantage; 
Whereas public reporting indicates that postseason football 
revenues are distributed in a manner that can reinforce 
conference-level concentration, including reports that the 
SEC and Big Ten each receive about 29 percent of CFP 
base distributions while the Group of Five conferences 
collectively receive about 9 percent; 
Whereas the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics 
and affiliated researchers have warned at a high level 
that the financial trajectory of major college sports is in-
creasingly concentrated and self-reinforcing, projecting 
that by fiscal year 2032 total annual athletics revenue at 
public FBS institutions will be approximately $20.9 bil-
lion, with $16.7 billion generated by 54 Autonomy-con-
ference public institutions (roughly four-fifths of that 
total); 
Whereas NCAA financial reporting underscores the sustain-
ability pressure facing much of the FBS system, showing 
that (for 2022) the median FBS program generated ap-
proximately $71 million in revenue against approximately 
$85.7 million in total expenses, producing a median oper-
ating deficit of approximately $19.3 million; 
Whereas public-records-based research indicates that bowl 
participation frequently produces net financial losses for 
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participating programs—reporting that around 70 per-
cent of public FBS colleges incurred bowl-game financial 
losses from 2015–2018—underscoring how the legacy 
postseason model can impose costs on many institutions 
even as championship access remains narrowly gated, all 
while reform advocates argue that lawful pooling or na-
tional packaging approaches could unlock $4–$7 billion 
in additional value—value that could be distributed more 
broadly to strengthen opportunity and competitive bal-
ance; 
Whereas Coach Leach’s vision for a broad-access, bracketed 
postseason—paired with a more unified approach to 
packaging and monetizing college football media rights— 
could create a materially more valuable national product 
and distribute benefits more widely, 
Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Rep-
resentatives that— 
(1) the governance and structure of the FBS 
postseason should expand meaningful competitive 
opportunity for student-athletes and institutions 
consistent with academic integrity and student-ath-
lete welfare; 
(2) postseason design and revenue structures 
should be evaluated and reformed where they 
produce anticompetitive effects that entrench advan-
tages for a select few schools and erode competitive 
balance; and 
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(3) proposals like those advanced by Coach 
Mike Leach—emphasizing broader, objective-access 
playoff participation paired with responsible season- 
structure reforms—represent the kind of innovative 
thinking necessary to protect opportunity, sustain-
ability, and fair competition in major college foot-
ball. 
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