their regular seasons are vastly different in terms of the number of regular season games teams play. MLB plays 162 games, so it would be more difficult for the owners to take advantage of the antitrust exemption in the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961. Hence why teams are free to negotiate their own regional TV contracts. Whereas the NFL only plays 17 (soon to be 18?) regular season games. It makes cents (or sense) that the owners would want to take advantage of the antitrust exemptions in the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961, so they can negotiate national contracts at the expense of teams being able to negotiate their own contracts (aka regional contracts). Since the NBA and NHL play 82 regular season games, both leagues opted to go the MLB route instead of the NFL route. The reason I mention this is because college football regular season is only 12 or 13 (if they play at Hawai'i) games, which aligns more with the NFL model. While college basketball plays about 30 regular season games, which could lean it towards the MLB model. However, 30 games may not be too large for the NFL model to still work if the schools wanted to go that route. If the P2s hold any advantage in this new world, then it may not be the kind of advantage you typically associate with the MLB teams. Instead, it may be more like the marketing advantages you see with NFL teams (i.e. Cowboys) because enough of the schools voted to take advantage of the antitrust exemptions in whatever new law passed by Congress.