Pat McAfee reads from the Book of Mormon on College GameDay in front of BYU crowd
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Pat McAfee can play to the home crowd on College GameDay, wherever the popular Saturday morning pregame show happens to be set on that particular week.
The former Pro Bowl punter for the Indianapolis Colts who played his college ball at West Virginia has become known for something totally different as an analyst and host on ESPN. McAfee is done playing the game, but he’s all around it now, and on College GameDay he’s the de facto “crazy person” who will constantly stretch the limits.
On Saturday morning in Provo, Utah, where the show was being set in the leadup to the huge Notre Dame-BYU top-10 showdown, McAfee decided to stretch those limits with a twist, even for him. Let’s just say McAfee could read the room, because he was in the land of the Mormons, in the state of Utah, in Provo and at BYU.
So, naturally, during a segment of the show that probably will never be duplicated, or at least until the show returns to Provo, McAfee read from the Book of Mormon, as co-hosts Kirk Herbstreit and Desmond Howard played along pretty well.
The Book of Mormon is defined as being a religious text of the Latter Day Saint movement, and it was first published in 1830 by Joseph Smith. So, about a few hundred years later, McAfee provided some religious bantering in front of some screaming, crazy BYU fans who showed up very early for Saturday’s show.
Here was the hilarious segment that might just have some religious heads taking notice:
While McAfee held court as only he can, with a BYU flare for the home crowd, the home team on Saturday night will be playing Notre Dame to increase its chances of making the College Football Playoff. Here is what the Kalshi market is currently saying about the best odds to make the 12-team field in December:
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.
