College GameDay Built by the Home Depot will originate from Lincoln, Neb., for the first time since 2007, ahead of the Huskers’ Big Ten matchup against the No. 5 Ohio State Buckeyes on ABC Saturday Night Football.
The three-hour pregame show (9 a.m. – noon ET), will be live from the east end of Memorial Stadium. Actress and Nebraska native Gabrielle Union will serve as the guest picker, joining host Rece Davis, and analysts Desmond Howard, Lee Corso and Kirk Herbstreit for Saturday Selections – the show’s final segment.
College GameDay will air on ESPN and ESPNU as it does each Saturday throughout the season. Countdown to GameDay Live sponsored by Coca-Cola and Samsung QLED, will also be live on-site on Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and the ESPN App, featuring ESPN college football reporter and analyst Maria Taylor, college football analyst David Pollack, Jason Fitz, and a number of college football analysts and reporters.
The show precedes a full slate of action across ESPN networks, beginning at noon. ABC Saturday Night Football will feature Nebraska vs. No. 5 Ohio State, airing at 7:30 p.m., with Chris Fowler, Kirk Herbstreit and Maria Taylor on the call.
Show Highlights
- Hold On – The odds have never been in favor of Casey O’Brien, yet that has not stopped him. The walk-on holder for Minnesota has a dream to play football again, but the four-time cancer survivor is already an inspiration to others, without ever stepping on the field. (Reporter: Gene Wojciechowski)
- A New Day Dawns – Tom Rinaldi sits down with Ohio State head coach Ryan Day. The new coach will discuss everything from shrinking his office, the doodles that become his plays, the hardest decision he’s made since taking the job, molding the program to his vision and more.
Corso Facts
- This Saturday is headgear pick no. 336 for Lee Corso
- Corso has picked Nebraska five times and is 3-2 in those picks
- The last two times Lee picked Nebraska with his headgear pick, the Huskers lost by a combined score of 85-31 (37-14 vs Miami in 2001 Championship Game and 48-17 in 2011)
- Corso has picked against Nebraska six times and is 5-1 when picking against the Huskers
- Lee has picked Ohio State 28 times, which is second only to Alabama; he’s 20-8 with those headgear picks
- He has picked against Ohio State 16 times and is 6-10 in those games, including Lee’s incorrect pick of Michigan to beat the Buckeyes last year
Stats from ‘The Bear’
- This is road show 371; GameDay’s last appearance in Lincoln was road show 162
- Saturday is the seventh trip to Lincoln for the show – first since September 15, 2007 when No. 1 USC blew out the Huskers, 49-31
- That’s the only time in the previous six games in Lincoln that GameDay attended that Nebraska lost
- The Buckeyes have won six straight road games in which GameDay has attended
- This is the 45th time GameDay will originate from an Ohio State game – tied with Alabama for the most appearances at a GameDay
- This is the 15th time GameDay has originated from the site of a Top Five team on the road versus an unranked team
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