College Football Association

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The College Football Association (CFA) is the name of a now-defunct body through which American college football schools negotiated TV contracts with networks.

The CFA was an alliance of 64 schools from the major conferences and selected independents.

On June 27, 1984, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in NCAA v. Board of Regents of University of Oklahoma that the NCAA's television plan violated the Sherman Antitrust Act.

As a result, individual schools and athletic conferences were freed to negotiate contracts on their own behalf.

Together with the growth of cable television, this ruling resulted in the explosion of broadcast options currently available.

So beginning in 1984, they sold their own television package first ABC, and later with CBS.

The Big Ten and Pacific-10 conferences sold their own separate package to ABC.