Former ESPN employee criticizes College GameDay location choice for Week 13
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Former ESPN employee Chris “The Bear” Fallica, who spent many years as part of ESPN’s College GameDay presentation, has some criticism for the network’s Week 13 destination choice.
ESPN announced on Sunday morning that it was heading to Eugene for this Saturday’s titanic Big Ten showdown between USC and Oregon. Both teams are squarely in the mix for a College Football Playoff spot, with the Trojans and Ducks meeting in a 3:30 p.m. ET kickoff on CBS.
They’ll be facing off on national TV and with Playoff stakes at an all-time high, so ESPN decided to head back to Eugene, where it also broadcast College GameDay on Oct. 11 in the leadup to Oregon’s huge matchup against Indiana later that day. But Fallica, who left College GameDay to join Fox Sports in 2022, can speak candidly on ESPN’s choices nowadays, and he did just that on Sunday afternoon with a post on his social media account.
Fallica believes that ESPN could have done “something special” this Saturday by heading to a less-known locale for the pregame show.
Fallica worked for College GameDay since 1996 as a research producer, so he has a longstanding history with the network and the pregame show.
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
