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.
It first aired in 1987 with Tim Brando as host and Lee Corso and Beano Cook as commentators, giving an overview of college football games. Karie Ross soon became the first female to join the broadcast.[1] The show underwent a radical transformation beginning in 1993, and began incorporating live broadcasts. Today, the only original cast member remaining is Lee Corso,[2] whose appearances have been pre-scripted since suffering a stroke in 2009.[3]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. Nick Saban was then added to the show in 2024. In 2010, the program was expanded from two to three hours, with the opening hour broadcast on ESPNU until 2013.
In 2020 the show received a massive graphic update.
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 five predictors: Corso, Herbstreit, Howard, 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 January 8, 2024, Corso is 274–139 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 January 8, 2024, Ohio State – Penn State and Alabama – LSU is the most featured matchup, appearing 12 times on College Gameday. Alabama – Georgia has been featured 10 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 on September 15, 2007.
ESPN laid off a large number of on-air staff, including College GameDay hosts Gene Wojciechowski and David Pollack.[5][6]
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.[11] (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.
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 281 consecutive GameDay broadcasts since 2003.[12][13][14]
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 2022, 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.
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 appeared from his Orlando home, as well as 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]
↑ The September 24th game was originally scheduled to originate from Baton Rouge for Tennessee vs. LSU, but the game was postponed to Monday, September 26 due to the approach of Hurricane Rita.[42]
↑ Corso wore Mel Kiper's head as his headgear during the broadcast.
↑ Corso's headgear was for who he would take with the first pick of the draft.[166]
↑ Corso made all of his headgear picks from his home in Florida and did not travel to any College GameDay locations due to COVID-19 concerns.[181]
↑ No College GameDay was eventually held on that date. The show was originally going to be in Paradise, Nevada, but was moved to ESPN's studios due to the COVID-19 outbreak.
↑ Corso's headgear was for who he thinks will win the Masters.
↑ Because of an increased number of COVID-19 cases within the football program, Liberty University's medical staff decided to pause its football team's activities and cancel the game with Coastal Carolina in Conway, South Carolina, scheduled for December 5. BYU, who had not originally been scheduled to play that week, and had hopes of making the College Football Playoff, worked to schedule this game in its place.[189][190]
Winners are listed in bold.[207] All rankings displayed for Division I-A/FBS teams are from the AP poll or CFP Rankings (starting in the 2014 season) at the time of the game. Division I-AA/FCS rankings are from the STATS poll at the time of the game.
Ohio State has appeared and hosted GameDay more than any other school with 59 and 23 times respectively.Alabama has hosted GameDay on campus 18 times and has made a total of 58 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 the only "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; it hosted as a Big 12 member). The SEC has also hosted GameDay more than any other conference.
School
Appearances
Hosted
Record
Win Pct
Last hosted
Ohio State
59
23
40–19
.678
October 21, 2023
Alabama
58
18
37–21
.638
November 4, 2023
Florida
42
13
26–16
.619
October 5, 2019
Oklahoma
40
8
27–13
.675
November 21, 2020
Michigan
39
14
21–18
.538
November 25, 2023
Georgia
36
9
17–19
.472
November 11, 2023
Notre Dame
36
11
16–20
.429
September 23, 2023
Florida State
35
11
17–18
.486
October 18, 2014
LSU
34
13
21–13
.618
October 12, 2019
Clemson
30
8
19–11
.633
October 1, 2022
Oregon
30
11
18–12
.600
October 22, 2022
Penn State
25
9
10–15
.400
September 18, 2021
USC
24
10
18–6
.750
November 16, 2013
Miami
24
8
15–9
.625
September 26, 2020
Tennessee
24
11
11–13
.458
October 15, 2022
Auburn
23
9
10–13
.435
November 25, 2017
Texas
22
9
11–11
.500
November 12, 2022
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
Navy
10
0
4–6
.400
N/A
UCLA
10
2
3–7
.300
October 23, 2021
Iowa
9
2
3–6
.333
September 30, 2006
Oklahoma State
9
6
1–8
.111
November 4, 2017
South Carolina
9
7
3–6
.333
September 27, 2014
Texas A&M
9
6
1–8
.111
September 8, 2018
Washington
9
3
2–7
.222
October 14, 2023
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
Missouri
6
1
3–3
.500
October 23, 2010
Georgia Tech
5
2
0–5
.000
September 2, 2006
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
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
California
3
0
1–2
.333
N/A
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
Indiana
1
1
0–1
.000
August 31, 2017
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 Five schools who have not yet hosted
Appearances through December 9, 2023
School
Appearances
Record
Win Pct
Note
California
3
1–2
.333
Illinois
2
1–1
.500
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
12
Ohio State 10–2
October 21, 2023
Ohio State 20–12
Alabama
LSU
12
Alabama 9–3
November 4, 2023
Alabama 42–28
Alabama
Georgia
10
Alabama 7–3
December 2, 2023
Alabama 27–24
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.[210] This saw the cessation of ESPN studio programming on TNT as well as the ending of showings of ESPN-produced documentaries and therefore College Gameday stopped being shown in the UK.[211] 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.[212]
Williams–Brice Stadium is the home football stadium for the South Carolina Gamecocks, the college football team representing the University of South Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina. It is currently the 16th largest on-campus college football stadium in the NCAA and is located on the corner of George Rogers Boulevard and Bluff Road adjacent to the South Carolina State Fairgrounds. Carolina football teams consistently attract standing-room-only crowds to Williams–Brice Stadium. The atmosphere on game days has been voted "the best" by SECsports.com, and has been noted as being among the loudest environments to play in by opposing players. The stadium has been the site of many concerts, state high school football championships, and various other events. It hosted the annual Palmetto Capital City Classic between Benedict College and South Carolina State University until the last game in 2005.
Kirk Edward Herbstreit is an American sportscaster and former college football player. He serves as an analyst for ESPN's College GameDay, a television program covering college football, and provides color commentary on college football games on ESPN and ABC and Thursday night NFL games on Prime Video. For his TV work, Herbstreit has won five Sports Emmy Awards in various categories. He appeared annually as a commentator in EA Sports' NCAA Football video game until the series was put on hiatus following NCAA Football 14.
Rece Davis is an American sports television journalist for ESPN/ABC. Davis works as an anchor on SportsCenter and serves as host of various other programs on the network, including College GameDay football road show and basketball show. Since 2021, he has been ESPN's lead host for international soccer events.
Monday Night Countdown is an American pregame television program that is broadcast on ESPN, preceding its coverage of Monday Night Football. For the network's non-Monday broadcasts, the pregame show is simply titled NFL Countdown. When it debuted in 1993 as NFL Prime Monday, and Monday Night Football was airing on ABC, the pregame show was one of the first cross-pollinations between ESPN and ABC Sports, each of which operated largely under separate management at the time. The show was renamed Monday Night Countdown in 1998 to match its sister show Sunday NFL Countdown, and Monday Night Football moved from ABC to ESPN in 2006. When ABC began airing selected Monday Night Football games in 2016, the network's broadcasts were preceded by simulcasts of Monday Night Countdown. The current sponsor is Panera, starting with the 2023 season. Previous sponsors of the show include UPS, Applebee's, Call of Duty, Courtyard by Marriott and Subway.
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.
ESPN College Football is the branding used for broadcasts of NCAA Division I FBS college football across ESPN properties, including ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN3, ESPN+, ABC, ESPN Classic, ESPNU, ESPN Deportes, ESPNews and ESPN Radio. ESPN College Football debuted in 1982.
The DirecTV Classic was an eight-team college basketball tournament held during Thanksgiving week at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. The tournament began in 2007, and was owned and operated by ESPN Regional Television. Games were televised on ESPN2 and ESPNU. Until 2012, it was known as the "76 Classic"; ConocoPhillips's 76 chain owned the naming rights to the tournament. DirecTV sponsored the 2012 tournament. In 2013, the event merged with the Wooden Classic to form a new event, the Wooden Legacy.
The James Madison Dukes football program represents James Madison University in the sport of American football. The Dukes compete in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) as a member of the Sun Belt Conference (SBC), beginning play within the conference for the 2022 season. The university first fielded a football team in 1972, and the Dukes play at the on-campus Bridgeforth Stadium in Harrisonburg, Virginia. The Dukes are currently coached by Bob Chesney.
The 1979 Indiana Hoosiers football team represented the Indiana Hoosiers in the 1979 Big Ten Conference football season. The Hoosiers played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Bloomington, Indiana. The team was coached by Lee Corso, in his seventh year as head coach of the Hoosiers. The Hoosiers participated in the Holiday Bowl, in a post-season matchup against BYU. The Hoosiers won, 38–37.
ESPN College Basketball is a blanket title used for presentations of college basketball on ESPN and its family of networks. Its coverage focuses primarily on competition in NCAA Division I, holding broadcast rights to games from each major conference, and a number of mid-major conferences.
The 2014 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey tournament was the national championship tournament for men's college ice hockey in the United States in 2014. The tournament involved 16 teams in single-elimination play to determine the national champion at the Division I level of the NCAA, the highest level of competition in college hockey. The tournament's Frozen Four – the semifinals and finals – was hosted by ECAC Hockey at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia.
The 2005 South Carolina Gamecocks football team represented the University of South Carolina in the Southeastern Conference during the 2005 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Gamecocks were led by Steve Spurrier in his first season as USC head coach and played their home games in Williams-Brice Stadium in Columbia, South Carolina.
The 2012 WNBA season was the 16th season of the Women's National Basketball Association. The regular season began on May 18, 2012.
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 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.
The 2016 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey tournament was the national championship tournament for men's college ice hockey in the United States in 2016. The tournament involved 16 teams in single-elimination play to determine the national champion at the Division I level of the NCAA, the highest level of competition in college hockey. The tournament's Frozen Four – the semifinals and finals – were hosted by the University of Wisconsin and the Tampa Bay Sports Commission at Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida.
Steve Levy is an American journalist and sportscaster for ESPN. He is known for his work broadcasting college football, Monday Night Football and the National Hockey League.
The 2023 Texas Longhorns football team represented the University of Texas at Austin as a member of the Big 12 Conference during the 2023 NCAA Division I FBS football season. They were led by third-year head coach Steve Sarkisian. The Longhorns played their home games at Darrell K Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium in Austin, Texas.
↑ 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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