FL Opens Antitrust Probe Into College Football Playoffs

December 12, 2023 Politics, Republicans

Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody writes:

I’m a lifelong Gator, but I’m also the Florida Attorney General, and I know injustice when I see it. No rational person or college football fan can look at this situation and not question the result. The NCAA, conferences, and the College Football Playoff Committee are subject to antitrust laws.

My Office is launching an investigation to examine if the Committee was involved in any anticompetitive conduct. As it stands, the Committee’s decision reeks of partiality, so we are demanding answers—not only for FSU, but for all schools, teams and fans of college football.

In Florida, merit matters. If it’s attention they were looking for, the Committee certainly has our attention now.

The Attorney General’s Civil Investigative Demand seeks multiple communications, including, but not limited to all communications relating to deliberations to or from the SEC, ACC, NCAA, ESPN, Group of Five conferences, Power Five conferences; all documents relating to public statements relating to the deliberations; documents showing compensation of members in 2023; and the Committee’s standards relating to ethics and conflicts of interest.

Read the full press release.

Moody’s action today is separate from DeSantis’s threat to sue the College Playoff Committee, for which he’s requested that the state legislature allocate $1 million.



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