AUSTIN (Nexstar) -- As fans gathered around tailgates and college campuses to cheer on their teams in the second weekend of the college football season, some of Texas' elected leaders sparked a conversation about the future of regulating deals that are making college athletes richer.

It all started with a TV ad that directed viewers to a website called Pass the SCORE Act, which was created by a group called the Coalition for the Future of College Athletics (C4FCA). According to its website, the C4FCA is a "unified front working diligently with members of Congress to ensure that the rights of college athletes are upheld through fair and forward-looking federal legislation on name, image, and likeness (NIL)."

The SCORE Act is the current proposal in Congress to create guardrails to regulat

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