ESPN'S GameDay headed to Gainesville
The Florida-Miami game may not be your average "traditional'' rivalry, but it's garnering national attention this week.
ESPN's GameDay will originate from Gainesville on Saturday.
No. 5 Florida (1-0) will host Miami (1-0) at 8 p.m. Saturday. The game will be televised nationally on ESPN.
GameDay will be broadcast from the grass outside the North End Zone of Ben Hill Griffin Stadium. The two-hour program with host Chris Fowler and analysts Lee Corso, Kirk Herbstreit and Desmond Howard airs live on ESPN Saturday at 10 a.m.
Florida will be making its 28th appearance on GameDay, the most of any school in the nation. The Gators are 16-10 (.615) when they are featured in the on-site game and last appeared on the program on April 12, when ESPN covered the "Orange & Blue Debut" Spring Scrimmage.
This will be the program's first regular-season appearance in Gainesville since Oct. 7, 2006, a 23-10 Florida victory over No. 9 LSU. UF's most recent regular-season appearance on the program was a 45-37 win over No. 8 Kentucky in Lexington on Oct. 20, 2007.
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The ONLY reason ESPN will be there is because ESPN is also showing the game. ESPN and its 'synergy' of solely promoting itself or ABC games is sickening.
Will the GameDay crew be in Jacksonville for the Florida/Georgia game? It's on CBS so I seriously doubt it. They'll probably be somewhere else, whatever ABC is showing that night in prime time.
And while we're at it, I hope someone busts Kirk Herbstreit in the mouth. His antics before Florida beat his alma mater, "Some Ohio State University", 41-14 were outrageous. He's paid to give analysis, but even then, it's so flawed and one-sided. Kick Herbie's rear end out of Gainesville!
Posted by: Rob | September 01, 2008 at 02:12 AM
So Rob, you're telling me that these networks promote their own programming?
Outrageous! I've never heard of such a thing!
Next thing you know, we'll be seeing adds for "The Simpsons" on Fox.
What is this world coming to?!
Posted by: Lee Corso | September 01, 2008 at 11:08 AM
I think ND will be undefeated this year, Navy is a very strong football team, though
Posted by: coach Holtz | September 04, 2008 at 12:46 PM