The league said video showed a Texas A&M staffer "signaling demonstratively" to Tyreek Chappell and "pointing to the ground" before Chappell went down.
With schools and conferences under increasing pressure to raise funds to pay their players, reports of them negotiating with new equity sources for college sports are becoming more frequent.
On Monday night, they'll be foes, but Houston Texans quarterback C.J. Stroud and Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba will always root for each other.
If the old era of college football required Texas A&M to do things that made it look more glamorous than it had a right to be, the new one is showing that substance will beat style every time.