CLEMSON — With President Donald Trump pressing the issue, the SEC and Big Ten have reached a deal with federal lawmakers to get the Protect College Sports Act in position for a vote by the Senate next week.

According to several reports, including Yahoo Sports’ Ross Dellenger, “each of the leagues’ presidents and chancellors voted Friday evening to swing their support behind the Protect College Sports Act in a stunning and about-face development that thrusts the legislation forward. The two conferences announced the deal via a joint statement on Friday night.”

For much of the last week, negotiations between U.S. Senators and Big Ten and SEC executives fought over revisions to the bill. On Friday, the leagues scrambled with meeting after meeting with their stakeholders to get a deal done.

All of it comes after the conferences missed their deadline on Thursday, their second one, which put the bill in jeopardy of not going to the Senate floor for a vote.

But what the SEC and Big Ten did not expect was President Trump coming after them. The President met with both of the leagues’ stakeholders on Thursday night, and was not shy about telling college athletics’ two most powerful conferences to get in line or else.

The President intended to publicly condemn the Big Ten and SEC leaders through his social media account, for opposing the bill.

Dellenger wrote, “Thursday night and Friday’s negotiations — between lawmakers and the power leagues, plus Notre Dame — resulted in the addition of language to the bill intended to strengthen a provision that prohibits schools from circumventing the athlete revenue-share cap. The language, shared with Yahoo Sports and spearheaded by New York Yankees president and Trump confidant Randy Levine, requires school-affiliated sponsors and apparel brands to enter into an attestation process to certify that their NIL agreements are kosher, not directed by the school and that the compensation doesn’t originate from the school. Similar language is in the bill already related to NIL deals from multimedia rights partners, like Learfield and Playfly.

“The goal is to establish a more strict cap by including into the cap all affiliated NIL deals, aside from those authentic deals that are ratified through the attestation process. This is a key point for university presidents and conference commissioners in all four power leagues, especially considering that the legislation raises the athlete cap from $21.3 million to $48.8 million.”

Now comes the fun part. Can they get on the Senate floor for vote by the end of next week, when the Senate recesses for a month.

Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) told Dellenger, he expects a vote to come down by next Friday or Saturday.

“Schmitt presented and answered questions from SEC presidents on their call Friday night. He also held a call with Trump, informing him of the good news. “He’s happy,” the lawmaker said. Schmitt believes the bill could garner as many as 80 votes in the Senate. The SEC and Big Ten’s support is central to the bill’s passage,” Dellenger wrote.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) likely needs to file Monday for what’s called “cloture,” a formal procedural step that starts the process for a floor vote later in the week.

“Many predict that the bipartisan legislation has enough support to easily surpass the 60-vote threshold necessary in the Senate with the leagues throwing their weight behind the measure. While the bill would still need to pass the House of Representatives, Senate ratification would stand as one of the most historic moves in college sports history and a victorious moment for the NCAA’s seven-year lobbying effort for a congressional bill,” Dellenger writes.