
The first show "on the road" took place at South Bend, Indiana for the match-up between #2 Notre Dame and #1 FSU on November 13. The selected stadium is usually hosting one of the biggest matchups of the day, regardless of whether the game airs on an ESPN network. In 1993, GameDay began broadcasting live from outside a stadium hosting a game most Saturdays. Maria Taylor: (Reporter/Contributor, 2017–2020)įan-made signs and flags being held up behind the set help make up the atmosphere of GameDay, as seen here at UCF in November 2018.Samantha Ponder: (Reporter/Contributor, 2012–2016).Erin Andrews: (Reporter/Contributor, 2010–2011).Robert Griffin III:(Analyst/Contributor, 2021–present).David Pollack: (Analyst/Contributor, 2011–present).Chris "Bear" Fallica: (Researcher/Contributor, 1996–present).Gene Wojciechowski: (Contributor, 1992–present).Desmond Howard: (Analyst, 2005–present).Kirk Herbstreit: (Analyst, 1996–present).The GameDay crew record a post-game segment for SportsCenter at Nebraska on September 15, 2007. Alabama – Auburn, Florida – Florida State, Florida – Tennessee, Florida State – Miami, and Army – Navy currently sit at 8. Alabama – Georgia has been featured 9 times. Ohio State – Penn State and Alabama – LSU are the most featured matchups, appearing 11 times on College Gameday. In 2018, Corso made his first NFL headgear pick when, as a guest on Sunday NFL Countdown, he correctly picked the New Orleans Saints to win their Week 9 game at home against the Los Angeles Rams. His first headgear pick occurred on October 5, 1996, when he correctly picked the Ohio State Buckeyes over the Penn State Nittany Lions. As of January 10, 2022, Corso is 254–130 in his headgear picks. The show always concludes with Corso's prediction for the host school's game, after which he dons the mascot's headgear of the team he predicts to win the game, usually to the ire or excitement of local fans. Typically there are four predictors: Corso, Herbstreit, Howard, and an invited guest, usually a celebrity, prominent athlete, or radio personality associated with the host school for that week. The show is known for its prediction segment that appears at the end of each broadcast. In 2010, the program was expanded from two to three hours, with the opening hour broadcast on ESPNU until 2013. In 2015, Rece Davis (also host of the college basketball version of GameDay) replaced Chris Fowler as host of the show. Erin Andrews joined the GameDay crew as a co-host and contributor in 2010, replaced in 2012 by Samantha Ponder (and in 2017 by Maria Taylor after Ponder left to become host of Sunday NFL Countdown that same year). Craig James served as an analyst from 1990 to 1995. Desmond Howard was added to the cast of the show in 2008.

Rece Davis serves as host and Kirk Herbstreit is Corso's counterpart. Today, the only original cast member remaining is Lee Corso, whose appearances have been pre-scripted since suffering a stroke in 2009. The show underwent a radical transformation beginning in 1993, and began incorporating live broadcasts. Karie Ross soon became the first female to join the broadcast. It first aired in 1987 with Tim Brando as host and Lee Corso and Beano Cook as commentators, giving an overview of college football games. In its current form, the program is typically broadcast from the campus of the team hosting a featured game being played that day and features news and analysis of the day's upcoming games.

College GameDay (branded as ESPN College GameDay built by the Home Depot for sponsorship reasons) is a pre-game show broadcast by ESPN as part of the network's coverage of college football, broadcast on Saturday mornings during the college football season, prior to the start of games with a 12:00 pm ET kickoff.
