ESPN College GameDay Headed to LSU-Oregon
by Year2 on Aug 5, 2011 11:36 AM EDT
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PrintESPN has announced the first three dates for the College GameDay crew.
They're continuing their recent tradition of attending a neutral site game involving an SEC team on the opening weekend, but instead of going to Atlanta for the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Classic, they going to Arlington for LSU-Oregon. That game is pretty much a no brainer as it's a matchup of two preseason top five teams. I know there will be plenty of LSU fans there, but I'll be interested to see how many Oregon fans make the trek down from the Pacific northwest.
Last year, GameDay actually visited SEC games on each of the first three weekends. They went to Atlanta for LSU-UNC, Tuscaloosa for Alabama-Penn State, and then Auburn for Auburn-Clemson. They won't follow a similar path this year as they will be going to Notre Dame-Michigan in Ann Arbor and then Oklahoma-Florida State in Tallahassee.
In related news, former Georgia great David Pollack will be joining Erin Andrews during the first hour of the show on ESPNU. I'm glad to see his role expanding with ESPN as he brings a lot more value to broadcasts than certain former Heisman winners from Michigan do.
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Yeah....
I’m glad they’ve got a former SEC player in there. I think the only other one on staff at ESPN is Jesse Palmer and he doesn’t exactly represent the breed well.
Well, he is Canadian after all.
Between Lou Holtz (Arkansas, South Carolina), Pollack, Matt Stinchcomb, Palmer, Erin Andrews, and Urban Meyer, they’ve got a fair amount of SEC representation, though only Pollack, Sinchcomb and Andrews really come from the South (if you can count Tampa in Andrews’ case) and only Stinchcomb was born in the South.
I just went over the list of ESPN analysts, and it’s remarkable how many are from the Big Ten and Pac-10. And as bad as the SEC has it, only Craig James represents Big 12 country, and he went to SMU.
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Well actually....
I was referring more to SEC players rather than just those who were associated with the SEC. I had forgotten about Stinchcomb though.
Holtz and Meyer do bring an interesting perspective and I’m happy to see someone with greater credibility go in front of the camera and talk about the superiority of the SEC.
Oh....
Would love to see Spurrier do commentary one day for ESPN. He’d be the most entertaining guy they had up there.
Meyer would be very interesting if they got a couple of drinks in him before the telecast. Every year at UF he got in some kind of trouble for being a little too honest and saying something that caused controversy. If they could just remove his filter full time, he’d be appointment television.
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