{"id":222031,"date":"2025-10-18T10:51:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T10:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/222031\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T10:51:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T10:51:16","slug":"this-wnba-star-is-the-most-accurate-college-gameday-celebrity-picker-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/222031\/","title":{"rendered":"This WNBA star is the most accurate College GameDay celebrity picker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN College GameDay is in Athens, Ga. this weekend, where the ninth-ranked Georgia Bulldogs will host the fifth-ranked Ole Miss Rebels on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, GameDay was in Eugene, Ore. for the top-10 showdown between Oregon and Indiana. New York Liberty star Sabrina Ionescu was <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/college\/oregon\/football\/espn-college-gameday-reveals-celebrity-guest-picker-sabrina-ionescu-oregon-ducks-indiana\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">invited onto the show<\/a> as one of the &#8220;celebrity pickers&#8221; &#8212; and though her prediction of a Ducks win over the Hoosiers did not come true, the New York Liberty guard maintained her impressive record as a guest prognosticator.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/wnba\/indiana-fever\/news\/fever-predicted-pair-caitlin-clark-sharpshooting-star-indiana\/bf6df5979ee5d14e85b89199\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fever predicted to pair Caitlin Clark with sharpshooting star from Indiana<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To this point in the 2025 college football season, Ionescu is unofficially the most accurate celebrity picker to feature on College GameDay\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/gamedaycole.com\/archival-picks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to the site gamedaycole.com<\/a> which tracks picks from every analyst and guest on ESPN&#8217;s flagship show. Her seven wins from 10 tries last week are the most among any of GameDay&#8217;s guests this season, including podcast host Theo Von (4-3), Atlanta Hawks star Trae Young (a 5-3 record) and the Florida Panthers&#8217; Stanley Cup-winning forward Matthew Tkachuk (4-2).<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">College Gameday crew is split on the Red River Rivalry<\/p>\n<p>Desmond Howard and Sabrina Ionescu picked Texas<\/p>\n<p>Nick Saban and Pat McAfee went with Oklahoma <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oM2Wu8H4US\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/oM2Wu8H4US<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Josh Callaway (@JoshMCallaway) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshMCallaway\/status\/1977042719085412500?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 11, 2025<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Oregon graduate Ionescu, a four-time All-Star and a WNBA champion in 2024, even correctly guessed that unranked Texas would defeat sixth-ranked Oklahoma in the Red River Rivalry, showing some serious faith in Longhorns quarterback Arch Manning &#8211; not to mention some serious ball knowledge in general.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, not only does Ionescu own the best record among guest pickers this season, she also\u00a0boasts a better record than <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/gamedaycole.com\/kirk-herbstreit\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kirk Herbstreit<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/gamedaycole.com\/desmond-howard\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Desmond Howard<\/a>, and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/gamedaycole.com\/pat-mcafee\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pat McAfee<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Will Ionescu finish the season as GameDay&#8217;s most accurate picker? Track her progress at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/gamedaycole.com\/archival-picks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">gamedaycole.com<\/a>. If you&#8217;re even more interested in keeping tabs on college football predictions from the sports&#8217;s most prominent talking heads, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/gamedaycole\" rel=\"nofollow\">follow @gamedaycole on X<\/a> and\/or support his work on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/gamedaycole.com\/support-us\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Patreon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More WNBA news:<\/p>\n<p>                        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ESPN College GameDay is in Athens, Ga. this weekend, where the ninth-ranked Georgia Bulldogs will host the fifth-ranked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-222031","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}