{"id":432077,"date":"2026-09-10T20:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T20:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/432077\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T20:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T20:12:12","slug":"espn-tabs-glen-powell-for-texas-ohio-state-gameday-over-other-celebs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/432077\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN tabs Glen Powell for Texas-Ohio State &#8216;GameDay&#8217; over other celebs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>University of Texas student and Austin native Glen Powell will serve as this week\u2019s guest picker for ESPN\u2019s \u201cCollege GameDay\u201d for the second time Saturday before the fourth-ranked Longhorns and the top-ranked Ohio State Buckeyes clash\u00a0in Austin.<\/p>\n<p>The broadcast will be filmed live from the lawn of the LBJ Presidential Library and air from 8 a.m.-11 a.m. on\u00a0ESPN and\u00a0ESPNU. The top-five showdown will kick off \u00a0at DKR-Texas Memorial Stadium at 6:30 p.m. and be broadcast on Ch. 8.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cTop Gun: Maverick\u201d actor, who is wrapping up his undergraduate degree at Texas and expects to graduate this spring, went 7-5 in his first try picking games for \u201cGameDay\u201d before the Horns&#8217; matchup with No. 1 Alabama during Week 2 of the 2022 season.<\/p>\n<p>It will be the show\u2019s 11th visit to Austin. The Longhorns have a 5-5 record in previous hosting appearances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"University of Texas student and Austin native Glen Powell will serve as this week\u2019s guest picker for ESPN\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28,144221,88146,88145],"class_list":["post-432077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-tp-college-football","tag-tp-texas-longhorns","tag-tp-colleges"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432077","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=432077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}