College football is getting so close we are starting to smell it. Today’s sweet and savory reminder of just how close we are to the start of a new year comes from ESPN with the announcement of the first College GameDay traveling road show of the season. No surprise here, but it will be setting up shop in Fort Worth, Texas leading up to the season opener between Alabama and Wisconsin.
But ESPN will not stop with just the season-opening clash between the Crimson Tide and Badgers. The show will also broadcast from Blacksburg, Virginia on Monday leading up to the Labor Day primetime affair between Virginia Tech and the defending national champion Ohio State Buckeyes. Virginia Tech, in case you needed to be reminded, handed Ohio State its only loss last season. Both games, naturally, will air on ESPN networks (Alabama-Wisconsin on ABC, Ohio State-Virginia Tech on ESPN).Announced here @cfbhall : @CollegeGameDay will open season at Ft. worth in @sundancesquare and continue on to #VaTech that Monday.
— Keri Potts (@MsPotts_ESPN) August 3, 2015
But wait, there’s one more GameDay surprise. For the second straight season, GameDay will wrap up its season-long pregame coverage from the Army-Navy Game. This year’s game will be back in Philadelphia after being played in Baltimore last season. The last time GameDay broadcast from Philadelphia was in 2002 prior to an Ivy League contest between the Penn Quakers and Harvard Crimson.
And @CollegeGameDay will end the season at Army Navy in Philly. — Keri Potts (@MsPotts_ESPN) August 3, 2015
The last time GameDay broadcast from Philadelphia was in 2002 prior to an Ivy League contest between the Penn Quakers and Harvard Crimson.