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President Donald Trump frustrated viewers of ABC's broadcast of a marquee Saturday college football game as they were forced to listen to static.

ABC's audio dissolved into static during the first quarter of the Texas-Tennessee game at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee, according to reporting by The New York Post. The trouble started immediately after sideline reporter Laura Rutledge wrapped up a report on how Trump's attendance could affect coaches' headset communications and sent the broadcast back to play-by-play announcer Chris Fowler and analyst Kirk Herbstreit.

The booth conversation was hard to make out for several minutes. At one point, Fowler could be heard telling Herbstreit to stay quiet while technicians worked on the problem. Earlier, while Rutledge was speaking, ABC aired a graphic explaining "electromagnetic deconfliction" and the coordination of radio frequencies with the Secret Service protecting Trump as he moved around the stadium....

College football fans are pulling their hair out after a head coach revealed how President Donald Trump impacted a championship game.

The head coach of the University of Texas at Austin Longhorns football team, Steve Sarkisian, shared a story on Thursday that suggested that Trump caused a security-related communications blackout during the College Football Playoff national championship in January.

Sarkisian explained that a "good friend" of his is Mario Cristobal, the head coach of the University of Miami football team. Miami faced off with Indiana University in the CFP national championship in January. Indiana won the game 27-21 after Indiana was able to hold off a comeback from Miami, which had the ball at the end of the game....

College football fans in Texas showered Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) with ceaseless boos and taunts while he appeared for an interview on Saturday.

Cruz's ten-minute interview Saturday on ESPN's "College GameDay," ahead of a football match-up between the University of Texas-Austin Longhorns and the Ohio State Buckeyes Saturday evening in Austin, was marred by the sounds of a chanting crowd.

"Ted, you suck!" they chanted. "Ted, you suck!"...