College Gameday in Austin?
ESPN announced yesterday that Chris, Kirk, Lee, and Desmond (how does he still draw a paycheck?) are going to be in Gainesville for the Miami-Florida match-up. That should tell you how shitty this week’s games are since this is not 2001 and Florida is favored by 3 touchdowns.
That will be Florida’s 28th appearance on College Gameday which leads the country.
Here is the Top 10 list:
Rank School Shows
1. Florida 27
2. Ohio State 22
T3. Florida State 21
T3. Michigan 21
T5. Notre Dame 18
T5. Oklahoma 18
7. Tennessee 17
8. Miami (Fla.) 16
9. Nebraska 15
10. Southern Cal 14
How is Texas not on this list?
ESPN has been doing the remote locations since 1993. How many times have we been the GameDay location?
I can recall the Colorado/Texas game in 1995 1994 where Rashaan Salaam announced his Heisman campaign. A lot of people became Heisman candidates on our Mackovic defenses. It was also the only home game I missed while a student at Texas thanks to a buddy knocking up a girl and having to have a wedding during football season.
1999 Nebraska game at home - I believe this ended up being the Matthew McConaughey bongo game; Major Applewhite thanks that Nebraska RB for the goal line fumbles
Red River Shootout in 2001 and 2002 - Both teams top 5 and undefeated going in; nuff said
@ the Horseshoe in 2005 - did you know that Ohio State had never lost a night home game? “Fuck you very much,” Signed Vince Young
I think we had the Texas Tech game in Austin that year too.
I assume GameDay was at the Greatest Game in College Football History in the Rose Bowl that year.
Is that it? Wow. That is surprising. Surely I am missing some.
On a side note, we are hosting the College GameDay Basketball in February when we host Oklahoma.
Any chance the game when we host Missouri gets selected?
September 3, 2008 at 9:11 am
BYU/UCLA is the game I’m most interested in seeing. Dove hunting plans may intefere with football this weekend. I’ve spent too much time with this counterfeit son-of-a-bitch lab in the last year to not find out if he can hunt.
September 3, 2008 at 9:20 am
I think they were in Austin in 02 or 03 for a K-State game. I don’t remember the year, but it was the one year they were actually good.
September 3, 2008 at 9:21 am
2003 Kansas State
September 3, 2008 at 9:30 am
Good call on K State. 8 times is disappointing.
September 3, 2008 at 9:31 am
The best part about Gameday is the signs.
September 3, 2008 at 9:40 am
According to Wikipedia:
October 23, 1999: #3 Nebraska at #18 Texas
October 6, 2001: #3 Oklahoma vs #5 Texas
October 12, 2002: #3 Oklahoma vs. #2 Texas
October 4, 2003: #14 Kansas State at #13 Texas
September 10, 2005: #2 Texas at #4 Ohio State
October 22, 2005: #10 Texas Tech at #2 Texas
January 4, 2006: Rose Bowl: #2 Texas vs #1
September 9, 2006: #1 Ohio State at #2 Texas
September 3, 2008 at 10:16 am
Oh yeah, Ohio State in 2006.
Interesting that that Colorado game was not on their list. I guess my memory is failing me.
September 3, 2008 at 10:22 am
They have been to Athens exactly one time, ever. We’ve seen them in Jacksonville a few times and at a few road games as well, but only once has Gameday graced the campus of UGA. I would imagine that will change with ESPN becoming the SEC network and all, but its still weird.
September 3, 2008 at 10:50 am
Mangino Ate Jean Bennett.
MU KU Gameday last year in KC. I almost died laughing.
September 3, 2008 at 11:06 am
finally found the link to all the MU KU gameday signs.
September 3, 2008 at 4:09 pm
You think they are biased against Austin games?
Athens, Georgia hasn’t hosted a game since 1998. Austin has hosted Gameday 4 times since then:
http://filebox.vt.edu/users/bkalb/ESPNCollegeGameday/ESPNCollegeGamedayHistory.htm
September 3, 2008 at 4:45 pm
If that question is directed at me, then my answer is no. I do not believe in the “ESPN is biased against me” conspiracy.
September 3, 2008 at 5:10 pm
It wasn’t directed at you. Just a poorly phrased rhetorical question…
September 5, 2008 at 1:28 pm
No joke, I think the girl on the left lived on my GF’s floor in Jester.