Report: College GameDay may not visit Jacksonville for Florida-Georgia
With a big matchup between rivals Georgia and Florida coming up next week in Jacksonville with both SEC and national title implications on the line, it wouldn’t be that surprising to see ESPN’s College GameDay set up shop in the northern Florida city and broadcast outside of TIAA Bank Field.
It seems that another Southeastern location is on the minds of the show though.
In a tweet sent out on Monday, analyst Kirk Herbstreit acknowledged that he would love to go to Memphis and shoot the show live from there before the Conference USA battle between the Memphis Tigers and SMU Mustangs. This was backed up by a report by a Memphis sports writer.
Just spoke with an ESPN Exec. He confirmed Memphis is absolutely in the meeting now for next week’s Gameday as Bear, Herbstreit, etc have teased. The very obvious thing is they both need to win this week. Decision hasn’t been made yet though. Go Mustangs (this week), Go Tigers.
— Brad Carson (@BradCarson) October 24, 2019
That would be an interesting selection but it wouldn’t be the first time the show has thought outside the box. This week they will broadcast from Brookings, SD as South Dakota State hosts rival North Dakota State in a FCS game.
Both GameDay and SEC Nation were on hand for the Georgia-Florida game last season. One outlying factor for show deciding to go elsewhere, though, is the fact that they have already visited both schools this season: Georgia ahead of Notre Dame game and Florida before Auburn.
Florida and the SEC were on two consecutive GameDay appearances. Of course they aren’t covering the Cocktail Party.
Yep – and they’ll definitely be at Bama-LSU the following week so they have another reason to avoid a SEC game on November 2nd.
Very true. Forgot about that.
I’m wondering if they decide to come to Auburn for the Georgia game, or the Iron Bowl.
So that means the SEC crew will be in Jax.
Maybe Corso and the crew should go to Tallahassee, there is one hell of a game going on there. LOL
Prefer the SEC crew anyway.
Florida has been in 3 College Game Day games this year too and that might be a reason why they don’t wanna go.
Yipee, three hours of Paul.
His schtick is getting old.
Haven’t watched GD since in years – why miss a good episode of “This Old House” or that wild man , Roy Underhill??
Who cares where they go? That show has sucked for years…Howard, Pollock, and Herbstreit, snore…
Agree. They should go to the small schools games. I just want a W…
Conference USA? ♂️
How could you skip the most relevant UGA vs. UF game this decade? The fact they haven’t announced yet, while also considering they were just in Dakota (doesn’t matter which one), means to me they will be in Jacksonville… Just because the Gators have performed so well, doesn’t mean they shouldn’t get gameday #4. Last time I checked, gameday’s ratings were much higher when the Gators were featured.
I thought Gameday was an occasion that had to be earned? If they are going to throw away 2 weeks in a row, go feature an FBS team like Kennesaw State who is a future big time program… Talk about the American Dream again.