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Ted Cruz has just 2 words about curse after epic Texas comeback vs. Ohio State

Did Texas senator Ted Cruz really break the sports curse after Texas beat Ohio State?

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After the College GameDay crowd booed Texas senator Ted Cruz , he got to watch the Longhorns engineer one heck of a comeback against top-ranked Ohio State. Texas beat the Buckeyes 24-23 after being down 20-3 at the half, with 21 unanswered points in the fourth quarter.

But does that mean that the so-called Ted Cruz curse is vanquished? After all, this has been a thing for years that fans in the Lone Star State have been citing for woes all around Texas. We can report that Cruz thinks so, with the senator posting just two words and a photo of himself with actor and Texas diehard Matthew McConaughey: "What curse?"

Here's the thing, though: Some fans think it was the presence of another politician that could have reversed the curse:

Fans think James Talarico helped break the Ted Cruz curse

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