The landmark trial of O’Bannon versus the NCAA concluded today with a federal judge ruling against the NCAA.

Arguing that the NCAA’s stipulations for benefits or compensation college football and men’s basketball players can receive, U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken issued an injunction preventing college sports’s governing body from “enforcing any rules or bylaws that would prohibit its member schools and conferences from offering their FBS football or Division I basketball recruits a limited share of the revenues generated from the use of their names, images, and likenesses in addition to a full grand-in-aid [scholarship].”

The ruling won’t go into effect until next year. The case is expected to be appealed.

The case has been headed by Ed O’Bannon, a former power forward for UCLA’s men’s basketball team in the early 1990s. He filed an antitrust lawsuit against the NCAA, EA Games and Collegiate Licensing Company saying that they conspired to profit from popular college athletes through booming television revenues and by using their likenesses in merchandise while preventing players from being fairly paid for their contributions.

In a 99-page ruling, Wilken said “justifications that the NCAA offers do not justify this restraint and could be achieved through less restrictive means.” She also ruled the the NCAA will be allowed to cap the amount players are paid as long as the cap is not lower than the cost of attendance in schools.

The NCAA had long argued that amateurism was fundamental to college athletics and that to pay players would put competitive balance on its head. During the trial, lawyers for the NCAA also said a ruling in favor of O’Bannon and other players would permit third parties to pay players and universities would struggle to maintain control of players.

Representatives for the University of Oregon athletic department declined to comment on the news of the ruling.

The Oregon athletic department pocketed the ninth most revenue in the country during the 2012-13 fiscal year, according to USA Today Sport’s latest update to its college athletics spending database. The database does not account for private universities such as the University of Southern California or Stanford. Those latest financial reports also indicate it was the most expensive year for the Ducks, as well – though it was a return to profitability since only breaking even in the three years before.

Follow Troy Brynelson on twitter at @TroyWB. Information reported by USA Today and ESPN was included in this article.