College Football in Chaos — Congress Steps In |

Outkick The Show with Clay Travis

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🗓️ 18 February 2026

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Subscribe to OutKick for daily videos and shorts: https://rb.gy/iw07ds College football is at a breaking point, and Missouri Senator Eric Schmitt joins Clay Travis to explain why he believes Congress must step in before the NCAA loses control completely. In this exclusive interview, Schmitt details how antitrust lawsuits created the “Wild West” of NIL deals and transfer portal chaos, why college football’s revenue model is under pressure, and what happens if lawmakers do nothing. He also weighs in on playoff expansion, SEC power shifts, and whether a bipartisan solution can actually save college sports. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:27.6	We bring in now a guy who's trying to help solve some of the issues relating to eligibility and more when it comes to college athletics.
0:44.4	He is Missouri, Senator Eric Schmidt.
0:47.6	Senator Schmidt, appreciate you coming on the show with us.
0:50.5	And I know you're a big sports fan in general, and this is part of the motivation for you in solving the NCAA's quagmire here.
0:59.0	Let's start with this question.
1:00.3	So we get this a lot.
1:01.7	Is there a role for politicians in this mess?
1:05.8	Do you believe that politicians who aren't always known to solve messes can help sports fans solve
1:12.9	what I think most people recognize is a mess in college athletics right now.
1:17.8	And I'm glad you asked that question because that's the question I think everyone should ask.
1:21.4	And I asked, by the way, my natural inclination is not for government to get involved in these
1:26.9	things. But I think we're at where we're at, Clay, because we have kind of chaos now on the landscape by way of litigation.
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