{"id":128001,"date":"2026-01-18T12:58:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T12:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/128001\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T12:58:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T12:58:24","slug":"espns-college-gameday-headed-back-to-lubbock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/128001\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN&#8217;s College GameDay headed back to Lubbock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.everythinglubbock.com\/sports\/red-raider-nation\/espns-college-gameday-headed-back-to-lubbock\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LUBBOCK, Texas<\/a> \u2014 ESPN announced that College GameDay will be making this season\u2019s basketball debut in Lubbock ahead of a showdown between Texas Tech and Houston on Jan. 24.<\/p>\n<p>The trip marks the first to United Supermarkets Arena in eight years and the second overall visit. In addition, it\u2019s the second time this year that ESPN is on-site in Lubbock, as the football version of College GameDay made its return for the regular season clash between Texas Tech and BYU.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.everythinglubbock.com\/sports\/red-raider-nation\/lady-raiders-suffer-first-loss-to-kansas-state\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" class=\"promo-link__link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\tLady Raiders suffer first loss to Kansas State\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While the Red Raiders and Cougars won\u2019t face off until 5:30 p.m., the pregame show will take place from 11 a.m. until 12 p.m. Students are encouraged to fill the USA, with free admission to the show and no need to purchase a ticket for the actual game. Doors will open at 9 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas \u2014 ESPN announced that College GameDay will be making this season\u2019s basketball debut in Lubbock ahead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-128001","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-lubbock","9":"tag-lubbock-headlines","10":"tag-lubbock-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}