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We hit a milestone this week. Tuesday was May 2, meaning the first Saturday of college football action was officially four months away. Weāre now closer to the beginning of the 2017 season as we are to the end of the ā16 campaign.
With that in mind, I took a look at guessing where College GameDay will send its crew for each week of the season. I feel pretty confident about Weeks 1 and 2ā¦ and not at all beyond that. Enjoy!
Sept. 2: Alabama vs. Florida State (at Atlanta) ā Go ahead and mark this one in ink. The only question is whether or not theyāre playing the game at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
Oct. 7: Alabama at Texas A&M ā The Aggies arenāt highly thought of in preseason, but wait. They open at UCLA and donāt leave Texas again for the rest of the month, hosting Nicholls State, Louisiana-Lafayette and South Carolina with a game against Arkansas in Arlington.
Nov. 4: LSU at Alabama ā GameDay has graced Tide-Tigers five of the past six years.
Nov. 25: Alabama at Auburn ā ESPN basically owns college football. It owns the Playoff, itās the only network contractually tied to every major conference, and it televises more games than anyone else. GameDay is the funnel to which it fuels the viewers to pay off that investment. And yet itās highly likely the two biggest rivalry games in the sport ā three, if Texas-OU still qualifies ā probably wonāt be on its airwaves. CBS owns first dibs to the Iron Bowl and, thanks to the new deal the Big Ten signed in 2016, Fox will probably air Michigan-Ohio State. Fox also aired Texas-OU in 2016. GameDay will go where the story is. But, still, itās weird that a network that owns most of the regular season of a sport that bills itself as The Regular Season Sport wonāt own the biggest games of the regular season.
Where will College GameDay visit each week of the 2017 season? - FootballScoop
With that in mind, I took a look at guessing where College GameDay will send its crew for each week of the season. I feel pretty confident about Weeks 1 and 2ā¦ and not at all beyond that. Enjoy!
Sept. 2: Alabama vs. Florida State (at Atlanta) ā Go ahead and mark this one in ink. The only question is whether or not theyāre playing the game at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
Oct. 7: Alabama at Texas A&M ā The Aggies arenāt highly thought of in preseason, but wait. They open at UCLA and donāt leave Texas again for the rest of the month, hosting Nicholls State, Louisiana-Lafayette and South Carolina with a game against Arkansas in Arlington.
Nov. 4: LSU at Alabama ā GameDay has graced Tide-Tigers five of the past six years.
Nov. 25: Alabama at Auburn ā ESPN basically owns college football. It owns the Playoff, itās the only network contractually tied to every major conference, and it televises more games than anyone else. GameDay is the funnel to which it fuels the viewers to pay off that investment. And yet itās highly likely the two biggest rivalry games in the sport ā three, if Texas-OU still qualifies ā probably wonāt be on its airwaves. CBS owns first dibs to the Iron Bowl and, thanks to the new deal the Big Ten signed in 2016, Fox will probably air Michigan-Ohio State. Fox also aired Texas-OU in 2016. GameDay will go where the story is. But, still, itās weird that a network that owns most of the regular season of a sport that bills itself as The Regular Season Sport wonāt own the biggest games of the regular season.
Where will College GameDay visit each week of the 2017 season? - FootballScoop
