ESPN’s College GameDay Built by The Home Depot – college football’s longest-running and most-celebrated pregame show – will make its first visit to Cambridge, Mass., ahead of the 131st playing of “The Game” between Yale and Harvard. The weekly three-hour Emmy Award-winning show (Saturday 9 a.m.- noon ET) will originate from the Dillon Quad on the campus of Harvard.
Hosted by Chris Fowler, the GameDay team consists of analysts Lee Corso, Kirk Herbstreit, Desmond Howard and David Pollack with reporting by Samantha Ponder,Tom Rinaldi, Scott Van Pelt, George Whitfield and Gene Wojciechowski.
College GameDay nuggets:
- This is the seventh time College GameDay has originated from a non-FBS site:
- 2002 Harvard at Penn
- 2005 Southern vs. Grambling (in Houston)
- 2007 Amherst at Williams
- 2008 Hampton at Florida A&M
- 2013 Delaware State at North Dakota State
- 2014 Incarnate Word at North Dakota State
- Lee Corso has put on the winning mascot head in all six non-FBS games College GameDay has attended. That includes dressing up as Ben Franklin in 2002 when Penn beat Harvard 44-9 at Franklin Field.
- The four non-FBS schools (five games) to host College GameDay won its home game by a combined score of 218-33, with Williams and North Dakota State (both times) shutting out its opponent.
- Lee Corso has never picked Harvard or Yale, so this will represent the 51st different team Lee has picked in a headgear game.
- Lee Corso is 15-1 in Week 13 headgear picks. His only loss came in 2007 when he picked Oklahoma State to beat Oklahoma and the Sooners won 47-41.
