Football season has yet to start, but the Northwestern University Wildcats already have one loss. The team suffered a high-profile defeat at the National Labor Relations Board on Monday when the agency unanimously ended to the players’ drive toward unionization, overturning a 2014 NLRB regional director ruling favorable to the team.

The first-of-its-kind unionization attempt, led by former Wildcats quarterback Kain Colter and supported by college athlete advocacy group National College Players Association, may not have made it to the end zone, but it also didn’t close the door to future complaints from student-athletes at the board and beyond.

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