{"id":412830,"date":"2026-01-17T11:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T11:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/412830\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T11:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T11:32:11","slug":"espn-college-gameday-announces-notre-dame-coach-marcus-freeman-as-national-championship-guest-analyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/412830\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN College GameDay announces Notre Dame coach Marcus Freeman as national championship guest analyst"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marcus Freeman<\/a> is getting in on the fun in Miami ahead of Monday\u2019s national title game. The Notre Dame<\/a> head coach will be joining ESPN\u2019s College GameDay broadcast as a guest analyst for the showdown between Indiana<\/a> and Miami<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The show made the reveal<\/a> on its X (formerly Twitter) account on Friday: \u201cNotre Dame head coach Marcus Freeman will be joining GameDay as a guest analyst for the national championship.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a solid get for College GameDay. Freeman will certainly be able to provide plenty of insight on both squads, as Notre Dame played Indiana during last season\u2019s iteration of the CFP, and they faced Miami in Week 1 of the regular season, as well.<\/p>\n

Additionally, Notre Dame was part of the first-ever national title game following a 12-team CFP last year. That\u2019s an experience only he and Ohio State\u2019s Ryan Day<\/a> know how to navigate, and should lead to some fascinating takes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It all goes down this coming Monday between Indiana and Miami. Bringing Freeman on should only add to ESPN\u2019s impressive coverage of the final college football game of the season, as they\u2019re pulling out all the stops.\u00a0<\/p>\n

More on Marcus Freeman, Notre Dame<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Freeman is staying at Notre Dame for the 2026 season despite rumors that several NFL franchises had interest in luring him away. Freeman\u2019s likely return was reported<\/a> Tuesday by ESPN\u2019s Adam Schefter and then essentially confirmed by the coach himself in a press conference on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Standing in front of reporters, Freeman answered multiple questions regarding his future in South Bend. He assured Fighting Irish fans that he was still their coach despite the noise from the outside, and his focus remains on getting the team back to competing for a College Football Playoff spot next season.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m the head coach at Notre Dame,\u201d Freeman said<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019ve said this before, but recognition, individual success, NFL interest, those are all reflections of team success and where this football program is. I\u2019ve used some of the interest from the NFL to personally gain wisdom from maybe some of the GMs or the front office executives that you get a chance to talk to about your players, but also about what they view as a successful coach. Maybe it\u2019s an NFL coach, but what are some of the things they\u2019ve seen that make a coach successful in their organization?\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I utilize these opportunities through conversations to be the best coach I can be of the Notre Dame football program. Again, that\u2019s where my mindset is and I don\u2019t control the noise, but I know the noise that\u2019s in my head and where my focus is.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 On3\u2019s Chandler Vessels contributed to this article.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marcus Freeman is getting in on the fun in Miami ahead of Monday\u2019s national title game. The Notre…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,171205,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-412830","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-marcus-freeman-04-wayne","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-football","12":"tag-ncaafootball","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}