{"id":469871,"date":"2026-10-18T17:56:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T17:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/469871\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T17:56:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T17:56:14","slug":"college-gameday-stays-in-utah-for-utah-houston-game-next-week-deseret-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/469871\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018College GameDay\u2019 stays in Utah for Utah-Houston game next week \u2013 Deseret News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cCollege GameDay\u201d can\u2019t get enough of the state of Utah.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">ESPN\u2019s pregame show will broadcast live from the University of Utah just one week after it went to Provo ahead of the BYU-Notre Dame game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Utes will be facing the Houston Cougars. Ranked 20th in the country last week, the Cougars hung on to beat the 18th ranked Oklahoma State Cowboys 35-32.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Saturday will be the seventh time \u201cGameDay\u201d has aired from the campus of the University of Utah.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We liked the Beehive State so much that we\u2019re sticking around!<\/p>\n<p>Next stop is Salt Lake to see the Utes put the nation\u2019s longest win streak on the line in a top-20 showdown with Houston \ud83d\ude4c <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/U3Qbil9ftK\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/U3Qbil9ftK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 College GameDay (@CollegeGameDay) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CollegeGameDay\/status\/2111849850241220794?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">October 18, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The show made its first appearance in Salt Lake City ahead of the 2004 BYU-Utah game. The show has also preceded Utah-TCU in 2010, Utah-Cal in 2015, Utah-Washington in 2016, Utah-Oregon in 2023 and Utah-Cincinnati in 2025. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Utah broke a two-game \u201cGameDay\u201d losing streak last year with a resounding 45-14 victory over Cincinnati and quarterback Brendan Sorsby. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cCollege GameDay\u201d will broadcast from Presidents\u2019 Circle, where it has originated from at Utah since 2015. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Rece Davis, Desmond Howard, Pat McAfee, Nick Saban and Kirk Herbstreit will host the show starting at 7 a.m. MDT. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It will be another late-night game, as Utah hosts Houston at 8:15 p.m. in a game televised on ESPN.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cCollege GameDay\u201d can\u2019t get enough of the state of Utah. ESPN\u2019s pregame show will broadcast live from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,17092],"class_list":["post-469871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-news-feed-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469871","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=469871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}