Disney does love its reboots, and with Dylan Raiola unavailable this weekend for the Huskers, he’ll be heading to College GameDay.
Oh, wait. Actually, ESPN secured the inspiration — not the inspired — for Saturday’s broadcast from Lubbock, Texas. Nothing quite compares to the original.
Former Red Raiders quarterback and current Kansas City Chiefs star Patrick Mahomes will be the celebrity guest picker during the Week 11 show, which will be live from the Texas Tech campus ahead of a massive, top-10 showdown between No. 7 BYU and No. 8 Texas Tech.
The Chiefs are on a bye this week, so Mahomes, who quarterbacked Tech from 2014-16, will head south to represent his alma mater. This will be just the second time in program history that Texas Tech has hosted GameDay. The first came in 2008, when then-No. 6 Texas Tech hosted No. 1 Texas.
Tech is 8-1 on the season, including a 5-1 record in Big 12 play. BYU is unbeaten at 8-0. Should Tech prevail, it’ll take a massive step toward the Big 12 title game and establish itself as a near-lock to make the College Football Playoff.
If BYU wins, the Cougars will create some distance between themselves and the rest of the conference. Cincinnati would be the only remaining Big 12 team with 1 or fewer losses in league play, the the Bearcats still have to face BYU on Nov. 22.
Kickoff from Jones AT&T Stadium is set for noon ET on ABC on Saturday. Tech is a 10-point favorite, per BetMGM.
Derek Peterson does a bit of everything, not unlike Taysom Hill. He has covered Oklahoma, Nebraska, the Pac-12, and now delivers CFB-wide content.
