Ted Cruz unloads on state of college football as programs get decimated by transfer portal: 'Absolute crisis'

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Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has been trying for years now to get more regulations around name, image and likeness (NIL) deals in college sports, saying back in 2023 that the landscape was "in peril."

Now, in 2025, Cruz sees college football specifically as a "disaster."

Cruz responded to a post on X, which called the "current college football landscape...unsustainable."

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The post pointed out that the Iowa State Cyclones, who just lost longtime head coach Matt Campbell to the vacant Penn State Nittany Lions job, only has 17 players remaining on their roster for next season. Among those players, only one was a starter.

Essentially, the Cyclones will have to field an entirely new roster and team and hope they can jell heading into 2026.

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Cruz slammed the fact the NCAA allows this.

"An absolute crisis," he wrote on X. "Congress NEEDS to act. For months, I’ve been working night & day to try to bring Republicans and Democrats together to save college sports.

"If we fail to do so, it will be an utter tragedy. And it’s happening right before our eyes."

Cruz introduced a bill in 2023, two years after NIL