WATCH: Ted Cruz Gets Merciless Reception from College GameDay Crowd: ‘Ted You Suck!’

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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) might want to steer clear of college football from now on.

The senator was viciously booed during an appearance Saturday on ESPN’s College GameDay, with the crowd so loud it often made it hard to hear Cruz’s chat with host Rece Davis.

At one point, the audience on site completely drown out Cruz, who was on hand at Darrell K Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium in Austin as the Ohio State Buckeyes took on the Texas Longhorns, to talk about the Protect College Sports Act.

“Well look as you know well college sports is an amazing institution,” Cruz begins as a steady chorus of boos is heard in the background.

“It has been an avenue of opportunity for literally millions of young men and young women to be able to get an education and be able to get a future and right now college sports is in chaos. The current situation is nuts,” he said.

The boos continued and increased in volume at the Republican spoke.

“You look at between Lane Kiffin down in Louisiana trying to get NFL players back into college sports or between up in Lubbock, Brendan Sorsby and litigation over whether someone who is gambling on his own game should be allowed to play.

“What we have right now is chaos there are no rules, and the situation with the transfer portal, where kids go transfer two, three, four, five times it’s terrible for the game, it’s terrible for the players, it’s terrible the schools, it’s terrible for the families,” he said.

“So the reason Congress is acting is because Congress created this problem,” he said.

As Cruz talked about federal antitrust laws contributing to “chaos” he described and mentioned the bipartisan bill, the crowd’s reaction was undeniable.

“Ted you suck! Ted you suck!” they could be repeatedly heard chanting.

“If we don’t act within three to five years we’re going to see 4o to 50 schools that have competitive football programs and everyone else is going to go under,” he said. “That would be a tragedy.”

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