College GameDay upsets Clemson fans with selection for Saturday's guest picker

On ESPN’s College GameDay, the celebrity guest picker traditionally has ties to the host school as a fan or alumnus. This week, the GameDay crew is broadcasting from Clemson ahead of the primetime showdown between Dabo Swinney’s Tigers and the Miami Hurricanes. Saturday’s guest picker, however, is a Miami fan and donor to the Hurricanes athletics program.

ESPN announced Saturday that Alex Rodriguez is the Saturday guest picker.

Today’s guest picker is … @AROD!

The last time he joined the show, he went 13-0 with his picks 👀 pic.twitter.com/ITAVELVl9b

— College GameDay (@CollegeGameDay) October 10, 2020

Alex Rodriguez will be the celebrity guest picker on College Gameday this morning. pic.twitter.com/uKjY1hEDak

— Josh White (@_JoshRWhite) October 10, 2020

Some Clemson fans on social media are not happy with ESPN’s selection of A-Rod for Saturday’s guest picker:

College GameDay’s decision tree when it has to select a guest picker when Clemson is hosting. pic.twitter.com/Ip7fw7HxcJ

— Robbie Tinsley (@RTinMan13) October 10, 2020

@CollegeGameDay Really Gameday? You come to Clemson and choose Arod for the guest picker? SMH!

— Tony Harrill (@tharrill1) October 10, 2020

It’d be one thing if you got a guest picker who doesn’t favor either Gameday team, but A-Rod very obviously favors Miami….and this is Miami’s 3rd (?) time on Gameday this year! What was the thinking behind this? @CollegeGameDay

— Austin Montgomery (@aus_monty) October 10, 2020

So Miami got the guest picker in the first true Clemson gameday since 2016…? Keep the disrespect coming. https://t.co/O9d3i7L2SJ

— Tucker Pettigrew (@tpettigrew405) October 10, 2020

In Clemson and A-Rod, a huge Miami fan is the guest picker? C’mon, Gameday.

— Austin Pendergist (@apthirteen) October 10, 2020