College GameDay

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Chris Fowler and Desmond Howard during a broadcast at Ohio Stadium , September 2009

College GameDay (German: College Game Day ) is a three-hour sports program on the American television station ESPN that is broadcast on Saturday morning. The main topics are game outlooks and background analyzes of the college football games on the respective day. The program, which has been on ESPN's program since 1987, has been produced since 1993 at different locations around the football stadium of a university.

With an average of around 1.96 million viewers per edition (2015), it is one of the most successful regular shows in ESPN's programming and, apart from the live broadcasts of the games, one of the most popular television programs in college football. In the years 2007, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2014 and 2015 they were each with an Emmy Award in the category "Outstanding Studio Show - Weekly" (German: Outstanding weekly studio show ) excellent, moreover, she was awarded the 2006 Outstanding Contribution to Amateur Football Award of the National Football Foundation .

concept

College GameDay in Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium of the University of Texas at Austin , August 2006

The main focus of College GameDay is an outlook on the upcoming college football games on the respective match day , background analyzes of the teams involved, corresponding tips from the commentators and historical reviews. The broadcasting time has been three hours since 2010, of which the first hour is shown on Saturday morning from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. on the college sports channel ESPNU and the next two hours from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. on the main ESPN program become.

The show, broadcast since 1987, was created in the studios of ESPN in Bristol, Connecticut until 1992 . Since 1993 it has been produced from week to week in a different city in the immediate vicinity of the football stadium of the respective college team. The location is selected according to various criteria. As a rule, these are the venues for games between leading teams, conference championship games , the BCS National Championship Game or other events of particular importance, such as historical rivalries between two teams. In honor of the American armed forces , the broadcast has already been shown twice at the venue of the game between the teams of the United States Military Academy ( Army Black Knights ) and the United States Air Force Academy ( Air Force Falcons ) and three times during the traditional game between the Army Black Knights and the crew of the United States Naval Academy ( Navy Midshipmen ). Venues of games between historic African American colleges or between teams from Division III of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) have also hosted the show.

An offshoot of the program has existed in ESPN's radio program since 2000 and an edition on college basketball since 2005 . College GameDay has also been broadcast in HDTV format on ESPN HD since 2007 . With an average of two million viewers per show, the 2009 season was the most successful in the history of the show to date. This corresponded to the Nielsen ratings , the by the company Nielsen Media Research collected audience ratings in the United States, an annual average of 1.6 percent of all US television households. The main sponsor of the show is the American hardware store chain The Home Depot . The theme music is a text modified version of the title Comin 'to Your City , which was published in September 2005 by the country duo Big & Rich .

Commentators

Chris Fowler, Lee Corso and Kirk Herbstreit at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln , September 2007

College GameDay commentators include sports reporters Chris Fowler , who is hosting, and Erin Andrews and Lee Corso , the only one on the team who has been on the show since the show started in 1987. With Kirk Herbstreit , who played as quarterback for the Ohio State University team from 1989 to 1993 , and former NFL professional Desmond Howard , two former football players also make up the show's regular cast. In addition, well-known athletes and other celebrities are regular guests.

A traditional feature of the program since 1996 has been that Lee Corso announces his tip for the winner of the game taking place at the production site by wearing the head of a costume of the mascot of the respective team. In August 2000, on the college GameDay broadcast prior to the season opening game between the Georgia Institute of Technology and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University teams , his rental car was struck by lightning in a storm after it had briefly been at Virginia Stadium Tech Hokies had predicted a Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets win . Commenting on the incident, Corso said, “I don't know what a hokie is. But God is one of them. ”The game was initially postponed due to the storm and later canceled.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ SportsBusiness Day ESPN's "College GameDay" Sees Viewership Drop Nearly 10% From '12 Issue December 20, 2013 (last accessed August 18, 2015)
  2. ↑ Chris Colston: Tales from the Virginia Tech Sidelines. Sports Publishing LLC, Champaign 2003, ISBN 1-58-261728-7 , p. 135

literature

  • The Birth of College GameDay. In: Craig James: Game Day: A Rollicking Journey to the Heart of College Football. John Wiley and Sons, Hoboken 2009, ISBN 0-47-047056-9 , pp. 59-78
  • All in a GameDay's work. In: Dan Wetzel, Josh Peter, Jeff Passan: Death to the BCS: The Definitive Case Against the Bowl Championship Series. Gotham Books, New York 2010, ISBN 1-59-240570-3 , pp. 141-149

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