College GameDay (branded as ESPN College GameDay built by The Home Depot for sponsorship reasons) is a pre-game show broadcast by ESPN as part of the network's coverage of college football, broadcast on Saturday mornings during the college football season. In its current form, the program is typically broadcast from the campus of the team hosting a featured game being played that day and features news and analysis of the day's upcoming games.
The show takes on a festive tailgate party atmosphere, as thousands of fans gather behind the broadcast set, in view of the show's cameras. Many fans bring flags or hand-painted signs as well, and the school's cheerleaders and mascots often join in the celebration. Crowds at GameDay tapings are known to be quite boisterous and very spirited. Flags seen at the broadcast are not limited to those of the home team; for example, one large Washington State flag can be seen at every broadcast, regardless of the location or the teams involved. The idea began in 2003 on WSU online fan forums and has resulted in the flag, nicknamed "Ol' Crimson," being present at 303 consecutive GameDay broadcasts since 2003.[1][2][3]
The tailgate party theme also includes food brought onto the set cooked by a local business and the hosts sample the food prior to a commercial break, but the food is taken away by the time the programme resumes.
The show's current main intro and theme music is performed by country music duo Big & Rich, who perform their 2005 crossover hit "Comin' to Your City" with revised lyrics which mention several top college teams and a guest appearance by Cowboy Troy. Rap artist Travie McCoy (of Gym Class Heroes) now appears in the intro for this show, starting with 2014 season, as well as Lzzy Hale, lead vocalist and guitarist of the rock group Halestorm. Additional music that has been used for the show include "Boom" by the rock group P.O.D. and God Bless Saturday by Kid Rock. The show also uses various other songs/music either side of commercial breaks, many of which appear at the same point of each programme.
The show is known for its prediction segment that appears at the end of each broadcast. The predictions use the standard scoring system and do not use the spread in determining the pick. Typically there are six predictors: Corso, Herbstreit, Howard, Saban, Pat McAfee, and an invited guest, usually a celebrity, prominent athlete, or radio personality associated with the host school for that week. The show always concludes with Corso's prediction for the host school's game, after which he dons the mascot's headgear of the team he predicts to win the game, usually to the ire or excitement of local fans. As of November 30, 2024, Corso is 283–142 in his headgear picks. His first headgear pick occurred on October 5, 1996, when he correctly picked the Ohio State Buckeyes over the Penn State Nittany Lions. In 2018, Corso made his first NFL headgear pick when, as a guest on Sunday NFL Countdown, he correctly picked the New Orleans Saints to win their Week 9 game at home against the Los Angeles Rams.[4] Corso made his 400th headgear pick on September 16, 2023, for the Colorado/Colorado Staterivalry game, he put on the headgear for Colorado.
As of December 21, 2024, Ohio State – Penn State and Alabama – LSU is the most featured matchup, appearing 13 times on College Gameday. Alabama – Georgia has been featured 11 times. Florida – Tennessee, Michigan – Ohio State and Army – Navy have been featured 9 times. Alabama – Auburn, Florida – Florida State, Florida State – Miami, and Oklahoma – Texas currently sit at 8.
Crew/Staff
The GameDay crew record a post-game segment for SportsCenter at Nebraska (vs USC) on September 15, 2007.
Tim Brando was the original host, with Lee Corso and Beano Cook as commentators. Karie Ross soon became the first female to join the broadcast.[5] The show underwent a radical transformation beginning in 1993, and began incorporating live broadcasts. Today, the only original cast member remaining is Lee Corso,[6] whose appearances have been pre-scripted since suffering a stroke in 2009.[7]Rece Davis serves as host and Kirk Herbstreit is Corso's counterpart. Desmond Howard was added to the cast of the show in 2008. Craig James served as an analyst from 1990 to 1995. Erin Andrews joined the GameDay crew as a co-host and contributor in 2010, replaced in 2012 by Samantha Ponder (and in 2017 by Maria Taylor after Ponder left to become host of Sunday NFL Countdown that same year). In 2015, Rece Davis (also host of the college basketball version of GameDay) replaced Chris Fowler as host of the show. In 2022, Pat McAfee joined, having previously been an analyst, and Nick Saban was added to the show in 2024. In 2010, the program started airing from 10:00am to 11:00am, with the opening hour broadcast on ESPNU until present day.
In 2023, ESPN laid off a large number of on-air staff, including College GameDay hosts Gene Wojciechowski and David Pollack.[8][9]
Fan-made signs and flags being held up behind the set help make up the atmosphere of GameDay, as seen here at UCF in November 2018.
GameDay started on ESPN in 1987 and originally broadcast from a studio in Connecticut.
In 1993, GameDay took the show "on the road" for the first time, going to South Bend, Indiana for the match-up between #2 Notre Dame and #1 FSU on November13.[14] (Matchups between the top two teams were rare prior to the BCS). It broadcast from the Sports Heritage Hall at the Notre Dame Joyce Center. The broadcast was such a success that they did nearly half their shows in 1994 on the road and in 1995 abandoned the studio altogether.
The format also changed from broadcasting from an indoor studio on site to live from outside a stadium hosting a big game most Saturdays. The selected stadium is usually hosting one of the biggest matchups of the day, regardless of whether the game airs on an ESPN network.
Typically, the show will end with Lee Corso and Kirk Herbstreit issuing their predictions for that day's key matchups, finishing with the game to be played at the stadium hosting GameDay, for which Corso signifies his prediction by donning the head piece of the mascot of his predicted winner. Starting with the 2009 season, a celebrity guest picker gives picks for the day's key games alongside the GameDay regulars (such as Bob Knight when GameDay aired from Texas Tech in 2008, NASCAR star Dale Earnhardt Jr. when GameDay aired from Bristol Motor Speedway (a NASCAR track) in 2016 and Verne Lundquist in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, since it was his final season calling College Football games on CBS). Prior to 2009, this was not done on a regular basis. Herbstreit, who in 2006 became a game analyst for ABC's Saturday Night Football, is not allowed to make a pick for the game at which he is assigned due to parent company Disney's conflict-of-interest rules; however, he is allowed to give one or two keys to the game.
At Penn State in October 2017, several people were lined up for GameDay by 3 AM, 6 hours before the show began.
In past years, when no suitably important game was available, it would originate instead from the ESPN studios. In 2017, with no suitably important game available, one show aired from Times Square instead. In August 2019, College Gameday aired from parent company Disney's Magic Kingdom Park in Disney World ahead of the University of Florida-Miami game played in Orlando.
College GameDay was also a source for many arguments regarding the purported east coast bias: From 1993 until 2004, GameDay had only been to two regular season games on the entire West Coast (1998 at UCLA and 2000 at Oregon). Given the popularity of the show and the media coverage it brought to the highlighted game, teams and fans of the West Coast teams felt that the show was only magnifying the perceived problems with excess media focus on East, South and Midwest games; ESPN attributed its lack of West Coast games to the need for a very early start time (07:00 AM PST) and an alleged lack of high quality matchups.[15]
With the addition of the Saturday Night Football game on ABC in 2006, GameDay has increasingly aired from that game. This could be done for many reasons including the fact Kirk Herbstreit is on both programs, thus making it easier for him. Another reason could be to give the Saturday Night Football game added exposure.
Beginning with the show's 21st season (2007), College GameDay began broadcasting in high-definition on ESPN HD. Also the same season, California became the first (and as of 2024, only) team to decline to host College GameDay,[16] as the school believed Gameday should go to Virginia Tech after the Virginia Tech shooting earlier in the year. 17 years later, California would finally make their debut hosting College GameDay for a 2024 matchup against Miami.
College GameDay expanded to 3 hours, with the first hour being televised on ESPNU beginning September 4, 2010. In addition, ESPN Radio simulcasts the television version from 9am-noon ET. Other changes include the addition of a female contributor—first Erin Andrews in 2010 and 2011, and then Samantha Ponder (then known by her maiden name, Samantha Steele) after Andrews left ESPN for Fox following the 2011 season. Both Andrews and Ponder have anchored several segments during the first hour on ESPNU, contributed during the ESPN portion, and also worked as a sideline reporter on the game from which College GameDay originated, if it aired on one of the ESPN family of networks (i.e. ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ABC).[17]
Beginning with the 2013 season, the third hour moved to ESPN and was hosted by Fowler. Starting in 2014, the show began a now annual visit to the Army-Navy Game in mid-December. As of 2018, the entire show is simulcast on both ESPN and ESPNU.
As previously mentioned, beginning with the 29th season (2015), Rece Davis (who is also the host of the college basketball version) replaced Chris Fowler as the football version's new host. Fowler retained his play-by-play duties on ABC's Saturday Night Football.
In March 2018, ESPN announced that it would broadcast a special edition of College GameDay from Arlington, Texas, as a pre-show for its coverage of day 1 of the 2018 NFL draft. The broadcast accompanied a secondary telecast of the draft on ESPN2, which was hosted by the College GameDay panelists (barring Kirk Herbstreit, as he was involved in ESPN's main broadcast to replace the outgoing Jon Gruden).[18][19]
In the 2020 season, College GameDay underwent modifications due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The program was broadcast without an audience, and with a modified desk to comply with social distancing rules. Corso did not travel with the remainder of the College GameDay panel due to health concerns, and instead made remote appearances from his home in Orlando, as well as in filmed sketches with appearances by team mascots.[20][21][22][23]
By 2023, the crowds of students returned, and exceeded their pre-pandemic numbers. James Madison University holds the record for the largest GameDay crowd in its 30-year history:[24] 26,000 people jammed on The Quad on November 18, 2023.
As of 2018, College GameDay has collected eight Sports Emmy Awards for Outstanding Studio Show, tied with TNT's Inside the NBA for the most wins by an analysis program. An incident happened in 2024 where ESPN admitted that for some of the Emmys it had won from 2010 to 2018, it had submitted some invented names of fictitious associate producers to receive statuettes, then quietly replaced or modified the inscriptions on the statuettes to match the show's real on-air personalities rather than the fake names. The people given the statuettes did not realize that they had not, strictly speaking, qualified for an Emmy themselves. This modification was done because the Emmy rules exclude on-air talent from the honor of the "outstanding weekly studio show" award, and the ESPN staff thought this rule was "stupid." After the scheme was discovered in 2023, the affected staff were asked to return their trophies.[25]
Ohio State has appeared and hosted GameDay more than any other school with 63 and 25 times respectively.Alabama has hosted GameDay on campus 19 times and has made a total of 60 appearances on GameDay, making them second in total appearances. The first three appearances were off-campus from Legion Field in Birmingham.The Florida Gators have been featured on GameDay 42 times, which makes them third in most total appearances.Air Force is one of only two "Group of Five" school to have hosted GameDay three times.North Dakota State is the only FCS program to host GameDay twice.A Washington State Cougars flag has flown at every GameDay broadcast since 2003, but GameDay did not visit Martin Stadium (pictured) until 2018.With the completion of the 2014 season, the SEC became the first (and, until 2022, the only) conference to have all of its members host GameDay at least once (although Missouri has never hosted while an SEC member; they hosted as a member of the Big 12). The SEC has also hosted GameDay more than any other conference.
School
Appearances
Hosted
Record
Win Pct
Last hosted
Ohio State
63
25
42–20
.677
December 21, 2024
Alabama
60
19
39–21
.650
September 28, 2024
Florida
42
13
26–16
.619
October 5, 2019
Oklahoma
41
9
27–14
.659
September 21, 2024
Georgia
40
10
20–20
.500
November 16, 2024
Michigan
40
15
21–19
.525
September 7, 2024
Notre Dame
38
12
17–20
.459
December 20, 2024
Florida State
36
11
17–19
.472
October 18, 2014
LSU
36
14
22–14
.611
November 9, 2024
Oregon
31
12
19–12
.613
October 12, 2024
Clemson
30
8
19–11
.633
October 1, 2022
Tennessee
27
11
12–14
.462
October 15, 2022
Penn State
26
10
10–16
.385
November 2, 2024
Texas
26
10
13–13
.500
October 19, 2024
Miami
25
8
16–9
.640
September 26, 2020
USC
24
10
18–6
.750
November 16, 2013
Auburn
23
9
10–13
.435
November 25, 2017
Wisconsin
20
8
7–13
.350
November 18, 2017
Nebraska
17
7
9–8
.529
September 28, 2019
Michigan State
16
8
9–7
.563
October 30, 2021
Virginia Tech
14
6
4–10
.286
September 30, 2017
Army
12
2
5–7
.417
December 12, 2020
Stanford
11
1
6–5
.545
November 12, 2011
TCU
11
3
8–3
.727
September 15, 2018
Texas A&M
11
8
1–10
.091
November 30, 2024
Navy
10
0
4–6
.400
N/A
South Carolina
10
8
3–7
.300
September 14, 2024
UCLA
10
2
3–7
.300
October 23, 2021
Washington
10
3
2–8
.200
October 14, 2023
Iowa
9
2
3–6
.333
September 30, 2006
Oklahoma State
9
6
1–8
.111
November 4, 2017
Utah
8
5
2–6
.250
October 28, 2023
Colorado
7
4
3–4
.429
September 16, 2023
Kansas State
7
2
2–5
.286
October 14, 2000
Georgia Tech
6
2
1–5
.167
September 2, 2006
Missouri
6
1
3–3
.500
October 23, 2010
Louisville
5
3
2–3
.400
September 19, 2020
Ole Miss
5
2
3–2
.600
November 13, 2021
West Virginia
5
2
1–4
.200
November 1, 2014
Baylor
4
3
1–3
.250
November 16, 2019
California
4
1
1–3
.250
October 5, 2024
Indiana
4
2
1–2
.333
October 26, 2024
Texas Tech
4
1
1–3
.250
November 1, 2008
Air Force
3
3
2–1
.667
November 7, 2009
Arizona
3
2
0–3
.000
September 26, 2015
Arizona State
3
1
0–3
.000
October 1, 2005
Arkansas
3
1
1–2
.333
November 11, 2006
Boston College
3
3
1–2
.333
November 10, 2018
BYU
3
1
0–3
.000
October 24, 2009
James Madison
3
3
1–2
.333
November 18, 2023
North Carolina
3
1
1–2
.333
November 8, 1997
North Dakota State
3
2
3–0
1.000
September 13, 2014
Northwestern
3
2
1–2
.333
October 5, 2013
Oregon State
3
1
0–3
.000
December 4, 2010
Pittsburgh
3
3
2–1
.667
September 1, 2022
Purdue
3
1
1–2
.333
October 16, 2004
Washington State
3
1
1–2
.333
October 20, 2018
Appalachian State
2
1
2–0
1.000
September 17, 2022
Cincinnati
2
1
1–1
.500
November 6, 2021
Harvard
2
1
1–1
.500
November 22, 2014
Illinois
2
0
1–1
.500
N/A
Iowa State
2
2
0–2
.000
September 11, 2021
Kansas
2
1
0–2
.000
October 8, 2022
Kentucky
2
1
0–2
.000
October 20, 2007
NC State
2
1
0–2
.000
October 23, 2004
Minnesota
2
2
0–2
.000
October 24, 2020
Mississippi State
2
1
1–1
.500
October 11, 2014
SMU
2
0
0–2
.000
N/A
Southern
2
0
0–2
.000
N/A
Syracuse
2
0
0–2
.000
N/A
Troy
2
0
1–1
.500
N/A
UCF
2
1
1–1
.500
November 17, 2018
Boise State
1
1
1–0
1.000
September 25, 2010
Bowling Green
1
1
1–0
1.000
October 25, 2003
Coastal Carolina
1
1
1–0
1.000
December 5, 2020
Duke
1
1
0–1
.000
September 30, 2023
Florida A&M
1
1
1–0
1.000
November 15, 2008
Houston
1
1
1–0
1.000
November 19, 2011
Jackson State
1
1
1–0
1.000
October 29, 2022
Memphis
1
1
1–0
1.000
November 2, 2019
Montana State
1
1
1–0
1.000
November 19, 2022
Temple
1
1
0–1
.000
October 31, 2015
Penn
1
1
1–0
1.000
November 16, 2002
South Dakota State
1
1
0–1
.000
October 26, 2019
Vanderbilt
1
1
1–0
1.000
October 4, 2008
Wake Forest
1
1
0–1
.000
September 12, 2020
Western Michigan
1
1
1–0
1.000
November 19, 2016
Williams
1
1
1–0
1.000
November 10, 2007
Alcorn State
1
0
0–1
.000
N/A
Amherst
1
0
0–1
.000
N/A
Buffalo
1
0
0–1
.000
N/A
Colorado State
1
0
0–1
.000
N/A
Delaware State
1
0
0–1
.000
N/A
East Carolina
1
0
0–1
.000
N/A
Grambling State
1
0
1–0
1.000
N/A
Hampton
1
0
0–1
.000
N/A
Incarnate Word
1
0
0–1
.000
N/A
Montana
1
0
0–1
.000
N/A
North Carolina Central
1
0
1–0
1.000
N/A
Northern Illinois
1
0
0–1
.000
N/A
Richmond
1
0
1–0
1.000
N/A
South Florida
1
0
1–0
1.000
N/A
Tulsa
1
0
0–1
.000
N/A
Villanova
1
0
0–1
.000
N/A
Yale
1
0
0–1
.000
N/A
Power Four schools who have not yet hosted
Appearances through December 21, 2024
School
Appearances
Record
Win Pct
Note
Illinois
2
1–1
.500
SMU
2
0–2
.000
Syracuse
2
0–2
.000
Maryland
0
0–0
–
Rutgers
0
0–0
–
Virginia
0
0–0
–
Frequent matchups
College GameDay matchups with at least 5 games played.
Team 1
Team 2
Matchups
Record
Last Appearance
Last Result
Ohio State
Penn State
13
Ohio State 11–2
November 2, 2024
Ohio State 20–13
Alabama
LSU
13
Alabama 10–3
November 9, 2024
Alabama 42–13
Alabama
Georgia
11
Alabama 8–3
September 28, 2024
Alabama 41–34
Florida
Tennessee
9
Florida 6–3
September 24, 2022
Tennessee 38–33
Michigan
Ohio State
9
Ohio State 5–4
November 25, 2023
Michigan 30–24
Army
Navy
9
Army 5–4
December 9, 2023
Army 17–11
Alabama
Auburn
8
Alabama 5–3
November 28, 2020
Alabama 42–13
Florida
Florida State
8
Tied 4–4
November 28, 2009
Florida 37–10
Florida State
Miami
8
Miami 5–3
September 26, 2020
Miami 52–10
Oklahoma
Texas
8
Oklahoma 5–3
October 7, 2023
Oklahoma 34–30
Michigan
Notre Dame
7
Michigan 5–2
September 1, 2018
Notre Dame 24–17
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State
7
Oklahoma 7–0
November 21, 2020
Oklahoma 41–13
Florida
LSU
5
LSU 3–2
October 12, 2019
LSU 42–28
Georgia
LSU
5
LSU 4–1
December 7, 2019
LSU 37–10
Michigan State
Ohio State
5
Ohio State 3–2
November 20, 2021
Ohio State 56–7
Notre Dame
USC
5
USC 3–2
November 24, 2012
Notre Dame 22–13
Oregon
UCLA
5
Oregon 4–1
October 22, 2022
Oregon 45–30
AP Number 1 vs Number 2
Date
Number 1
Number 2
Result
Record
1
November 13, 1993
Florida State
Notre Dame
31−24
Number 2 1–0
2
January 2, 1996
Nebraska
Florida
62−24
1–1
3
November 30, 1996
Florida
Florida State
24−21
Number 2 2–1
4
January 4, 1999
Tennessee
Florida State
23−16
2–2
5
January 4, 2000
Florida State
Virginia Tech
46−29
Number 1 3–2
6
January 3, 2003
Miami
Ohio State
31−24
3–3
7
January 4, 2005
USC
Oklahoma
55−19
Number 1 4–3
8
January 4, 2006
USC
Texas
41–38
4–4
9
September 9, 2006
Ohio State
Texas
24–7
Number 1 5–4
10
November 18, 2006
Ohio State
Michigan
42–39
Number 1 6–4
11
January 8, 2007
Ohio State
Florida
41–14
Number 1 6–5
12
January 7, 2008
Ohio State
LSU
38–24
6–6
13
December 5, 2008
Alabama
Florida
31–20
Number 2 7–6
14
January 8, 2009
Florida
Oklahoma
24–14
7–7
15
December 5, 2009
Florida
Alabama
32–13
Number 2 8–7
16
January 7, 2010
Alabama
Texas
37–21
8–8
17
January 10, 2011
Auburn
Oregon
22–19
Number 1 9–8
18
November 5, 2011
LSU
Alabama
9–6
Number 1 10–8
19
January 9, 2012
LSU
Alabama
21–0
Number 1 10–9
20
January 7, 2013
Notre Dame
Alabama
42–14
10–10
21
January 6, 2014
Florida State
Auburn
34–31
Number 1 11–10
22
January 11, 2016
Clemson
Alabama
45–40
11–11
23
January 7, 2019
Alabama
Clemson
44–16
Number 2 11–12
24
November 9, 2019
LSU
Alabama
46–41
12–12
25
November 5, 2022
Georgia
Tennessee
27–13
Number 1 13–12
26
January 8, 2024
Michigan
Washington
34−13
Number 1 14−12
Celebrity guest pickers
Auburn and NBA basketball player Charles Barkley was the first celebrity guest picker on the October 2, 2004, show and has made the most show appearances with six, with his most recent appearance on December 14, 2019. Olympian and Arizona swimmer Amanda Beard was the first female celebrity guest picker on November 21, 2009. Georgia golfer Bubba Watson became the first celebrity picker to pick all games correctly on September 28, 2013. Oklahoma State and NBA player Marcus Smart became the first ever student athlete guest picker on November 23, 2013. The Oregon Duck became the first school mascot to be the guest picker on September 6, 2014. Guests have included athletes, coaches, military veterans, Make-A-Wish Foundation kids, athletes, school mascots, professional sports owners, CEOs, singers, actors and celebrity personalities.
In the UK, College GameDay was shown in full during BT Sport's decade on air (2013–2023), unless live sport was being aired on all of its channels. In July 2023, BT Sport was relaunched as TNT Sports following the sale of BT Sport to Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA.[28] This saw the cessation of ESPN programming, and College Gameday stopped being shown in the UK.[29][unreliable source?] The programme returned to UK screens on 18 November 2023 following an agreement between Sky Sports and ESPN which sees Sky Sports broadcasting College Gameday and three College Football games each week.[30]
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Sunday NFL Countdown is an American pre-game show broadcast by ESPN as part of the network's coverage of the National Football League. The program is broadcast on Sunday mornings throughout the regular season, featuring segments highlighting news from around the league, as well as previews and analysis of the day's games. The program debuted as NFL GameDay in 1985, then was renamed as NFL Countdown in 1996, and Sunday NFL Countdown in 1998 to disambiguate it from its Monday night counterpart Monday Night Countdown. During the NFL playoffs, editions of the show are titled as Postseason NFL Countdown.
ESPN Radio College Gameday is a talk radio show on ESPN Radio covering the day's college football games.
Saturday Night Football is an American weekly presentation of prime time broadcasts of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) college football games that are produced by ESPN, and televised on ABC. Games are presented each Saturday evening starting at 7:30 p.m. Eastern Time/6:30 p.m. Central Time during the college football regular season, which has been the case since 2017. The ESPN on ABC Saturday Night Football coverage began in 2006, as both ESPN and ABC are owned by The Walt Disney Company. It is ESPN's biggest game of the week, and in most cases, the city and/or campus of that night's game is where that day's ESPN College GameDay had originated.
Trev Kendall Alberts is an American sports administrator and former professional football player who is the athletic director at Texas A&M University. He played professionally as a linebacker for the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League (NFL).
ESPNU College Football is a broadcast of NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision and NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision college football on ESPNU. ESPNU College Football debuted on August 25, 2005 with a HBCU match-up between Benedict and Morehouse.
ESPN Megacast, formerly known as ESPN Full Circle, is a multi-network simulcast of a single sporting event across multiple ESPN networks and services—with each feed providing a different version of the telecast making use of different features, functions or perspectives. These simulcasts typically involve ESPN's linear television channels and internet streaming platforms, and may occasionally incorporate other Walt Disney Television networks at once.
College Football on CBS Sports is the blanket title used for broadcasts of college football games that are produced by CBS Sports, for CBS and CBS Sports Network.
College GameDay is an ESPN program that covers college basketball and is a spin-off of the successful college football version. Since debuting on January 22, 2005, it airs on ESPN Saturdays in the conference play section of the college basketball season at 11 A.M. ET at a different game site each week. Before 2015, the college basketball version always appeared at the ESPN Saturday Primetime game location. Since the 2014–2015 season, the show has appeared at a top game of the week, similar to the college football version. The program has also appeared at the site of the Final Four.
Thursday Night Football is the branding used for broadcasts of National Football League (NFL) games that broadcast primarily on Thursday nights. Most of the games kick off at 8:15 Eastern Time.
Daniel Kanell is an American sports broadcaster and former professional football player who is employed by CBS Sports and SiriusXM as an on-air personality. He played as a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL). Kanell played college football for the Florida State Seminoles, earning second-team All-American honors in 1995. He also played in the Arena Football League (AFL).
Chris Fowler is an American sports broadcaster for ESPN, who serves as the play-by-play announcer for Saturday Night Football on ABC and ESPN's tennis coverage. He is also known for his work on College GameDay, which he hosted between 1990 and 2014, and for college football.
Lee Richard Corso is an American sports broadcaster and college football analyst for ESPN and a former coach. He has been an analyst on ESPN's College GameDay program since its inception in 1987. Corso served as the head football coach at the University of Louisville from 1969 to 1972, at Indiana University Bloomington from 1973 to 1982, and at Northern Illinois University in 1984, compiling a career college football coaching record of 73–85–6. He was the head coach for the Orlando Renegades of the United States Football League in 1985, tallying a mark of 5–13.
Big Noon Kickoff is an American college football studio show broadcast by Fox, and simulcast on sister network Fox Sports 1 (FS1). Premiering on August 31, 2019, it serves as the pre-game show for Fox College Football, and in particular, Big Noon Saturday—the network's weekly 12:00 p.m ET/9:00 a.m PT kickoff window.
↑ As Mark Gross, coordinating producer of GameDay, noted: "You're asking a thousand people to show up 12 hours before the game starts ... By no means are we ignoring (USC). We always discuss the possibility. But the time is something to think about." Patrick Kinmartin, What time is it? Time for "College GameDay" to make its way to L.A., The Daily Trojan, April 8, 2004.
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