ESPN's College GameDay Built by The Home Depot will be live from Nashville, Tenn., ahead of the Week 9 top 15 SEC battle between No. 15 Missouri and No. 10 Vanderbilt. The premier college football pregame show will originate from Wyatt Lawn on Vanderbilt's campus 9 a.m. - noon ET on ESPN, ESPNU and Disney+.
Saturday's visit will mark just the second time the Commodores have hosted GameDay, with the last visit coming in 2008. Vanderbilt is off to its greatest start in 75 years, with coach Clark Lea leading the 'Dores to their highest AP ranking since 1947. The Tigers will make their seventh all-time appearance on GameDay and first since the 2014 campaign.
Host Rece Davis is at the helm for his 11th season, joined at the desk by GameDay analysts Kirk Herbstreit, Desmond Howard, Pat McAfee and Nick Saban. College football insider Pete Thamel, college football betting analyst 'Stanford Steve' Coughlin and reporters Jen Lada and Jess Sims round out the GameDay cast for the 2025 college football season.
Show Highlights & Guests
The show and offerings are free for fans and early arrival is suggested for these exclusive offers. For onsite information, please visit College GameDay's Hub HERE.
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ESPN's Expansive Digital Coverage
Back for their fourth season together, Christine Williamson, Harry Douglas and Harry Lyles Jr. co-host ESPN's social and digital pre-pregame show, Countdown to GameDay Presented by Dr Pepper. Countdown kicks off college football Saturdays with fun, fresh insights into the full weekend slate of games. The show is available across ESPN on YouTube, Facebook and the ESPN App at 8:20 a.m. weekly.
A Look Back at Last Week
College GameDay's Week 8 trip to Athens scored the fourth-most watched regular season episode ever to add to the season's strong start with the top seven regular season shows of all time. Last week's show had the second-best final hour+ ever, with 3.6 million viewers and averaged 2.7 million for the whole show. The Athens episode also boasted the second-highest female audience ever for a regular season show (35%).
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