On today's college football inquire, the Big 12 approves college sports first private equity deal with a league.

Plus, an update on the CSC participation agreement slash blood pact involving Nebraska.

And if you have nine draft picks, shouldn't you have won a lot of games last year?

We examine the Clemson situation.

All on today's college football inquire. Welcome to the college football inquire with Ross Delinger and Stephen Godfrey.

I am Andy Staples. Ross is on the road because he's moving and shaking. He's making deals,

but not the kind of deals that the Big 12 is making.

We got a private equity deal, sort of.

I want you to explain, Ross, because a league has now made a deal with a private equity company,

though it's not exactly a PE deal yet.

So let's explain.

Yeah.

So there, I think the easiest way, and I think we did, we talked about this in December

when it sort of the details first came out.

But, you know, it's kind of like a three-part deal, right? The first part is the league

office gets at least $12.5 million. They can get as much as like $25 million, I think, to invest in

companies, and try to make more money, revenue-generating opportunities, whatever.

So there's that.

And they're getting that money from the capital companies from Redbird and Weatherford.

And then the second part of the deal is just sort of like-

By the way, let me point this out, Weatherford, if you're a college football fan,

and that name sounds familiar to you.

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