{"id":29557,"date":"2025-11-09T22:52:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T22:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/29557\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T22:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T22:52:07","slug":"college-gameday-returning-to-pittsburgh-ahead-of-pitt-notre-dame-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/29557\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;College GameDay&#8221; returning to Pittsburgh ahead of Pitt-Notre Dame game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;College GameDay,&#8221; ESPN&#8217;s popular college football pregame show, will once again emanate from the Steel City when the show returns to the North Shore on Saturday, Nov. 15, ahead of No. 24 Pittsburgh&#8217;s matchup against No. 10 Notre Dame at Acrisure Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The broadcast will air live on ESPN from 9 a.m. to noon leading into kickoff.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re thrilled to welcome College GameDay back to Pittsburgh,&#8221; said Pitt Athletic Director Allen Greene. &#8220;This is an incredible opportunity to showcase our city, our University, and the passion of Panther Nation on college football&#8217;s biggest stage. I can&#8217;t wait to unleash our fans and show the country what Pitt is all about!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This marks College GameDay&#8217;s first visit to Pittsburgh since\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/college-gameday-returns-to-pittsburgh-for-2022-backyard-brawl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-absolute=\"true\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Sept. 1, 2022<\/a>, when the Panthers defeated West Virginia, 38-31, in the return of the Backyard Brawl.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Prior to that, the show last appeared at a Pitt home game on a Saturday when the Panthers hosted Notre Dame on Sept. 3, 2005, according to a media release from the University of Pittsburgh&#8217;s athletics department.<\/p>\n<p>The Panthers enter Saturday&#8217;s contest against the Fighting Irish on a five-game winning streak, led by freshman quarterback Mason Heintschel, while Notre Dame has won seven straight games. Saturday&#8217;s contest will also mark the first CFP Top-25 matchup hosted by the Panthers in the College Football Playoff era, the media release added.<\/p>\n<p>The game will also feature the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/university-of-pittsburgh-aaron-donald-jersey-retirement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-absolute=\"true\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">retirement of Aaron Donald&#8217;s No. 97 jersey<\/a> at halftime, along with a special tribute commemorating the 50th anniversary of Tony Dorsett&#8217;s 303-yard rushing game against Notre Dame in 1975.<\/p>\n<p>More information is expected to be announced later this week.<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;College GameDay,&#8221; ESPN&#8217;s popular college football pregame show, will once again emanate from the Steel City when the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8206,6743,1421,3746,73,75,74,2553],"class_list":["post-29557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-acrisure-stadium","tag-college-football","tag-espn","tag-notre-dame","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-university-of-pittsburgh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}