{"id":83341,"date":"2025-12-10T17:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T17:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/83341\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T17:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T17:41:08","slug":"espns-college-gameday-headed-to-aggieland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/83341\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN’s ‘College GameDay’ headed to Aggieland"},"content":{"rendered":"

COLLEGE STATION \u2014 For the ninth time since the show’s inception,\u00a0ESPN’s “College GameDay” is headed to Kyle Field.<\/p>\n

No. 7 Texas A&M football<\/a> will host No. 10 Miami\u00a0in the first round of the College Football Playoff<\/a> on Dec. 20 and ESPN is prepared to broadcast its nationally televised pregame show from Aggieland. Rece Davis hosts the show alongside Kirk Herbstreit, Desmond Howard, Jen Lada, Pat McAfee and Jess Sims, as well as\u00a0Nick Saban and national college football writer Pete Thamel.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The show airs from 8 a.m. until 11 a.m.\u00a0to kick off a slate of three CFP first-round games.<\/p>\n

Along with\u00a0GameDay, ESPN’s broadcasting team of Sean McDonough, Greg McElroy, Molly McGrath\u00a0and Taylor McGregor will work the first-round matchup. It will be the second straight time the crew has called an\u00a0Aggies game, the last one being\u00a0Week 14 against Texas.<\/p>\n

It’s the first time the show will be at Kyle Field since A&M’s 2024 loss to Texas. The pregame show also was held at A&M\u00a0for head coach Mike Elko’s coaching\u00a0debut last season, a Week 1 loss to Notre Dame<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This marks the 12th time in program history that the Aggies have played in a “College GameDay”-featured matchup.<\/p>\n

The winner of A&M-Miami\u00a0will advance to the quarterfinals and face Ohio State in the Cotton Bowl on New Year’s Eve.<\/p>\n

Reach Texas A&M beat reporter Tony Catalina via email at Anthony.Catalina@statesman.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLLEGE STATION \u2014 For the ninth time since the show’s inception,\u00a0ESPN’s “College GameDay” is headed to Kyle Field.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[265,262,22687,9642,2163,27,259,6992,29,28],"class_list":["post-83341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-cfp","tag-college-football-playoff","tag-espn-college-gameday","tag-miami-hurricanes","tag-mike-elko","tag-texas","tag-texas-am-aggies-football","tag-texas-am-football","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83341","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=83341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}