Lawyers representing thousands of former college athletes waiting for a federal court in California to approve a settlement worth a reported $40 million have accused the National Collegiate Athletic Association of trying to scuttle the deal by bringing a separate suit in Atlanta.

The deal on the table would resolve the athletes’ claims that a video game maker and an Atlanta-based licensing company reaped hundreds of millions of dollars by using the likenesses of college players without compensating them.

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