ESPN’s College GameDay Built by The Home Depot – college football’s longest running and most celebrated pregame show – will make a return trip to Fargo, N.D. home to the North Dakota State Bison and their record 26-game win streak in FCS play on Saturday, Sept. 13. The weekly three-hour Emmy Award-winning show (Saturday 9 a.m.-noon ET) will originate from downtown Fargo ahead of that afternoon’s Incarnate Word at North Dakota State matchup on ESPN3 (3:30 p.m.).
Hosted by Chris Fowler, the GameDay team consists of analysts Lee Corso, Kirk Herbstreit, Desmond Howard and David Pollack with reporting by Samantha Ponder, Tom Rinaldi, Scott Van Pelt, George Whitfield and Gene Wojciechowski.
College GameDay nuggets:
- This is the sixth time GameDay has originated from the site of a FCS game. The others: 2002 Harvard at Penn, 2005 Southern vs. Grambling (in Houston), 2007 Amherst at Williams, 2008 Hampton at Florida A&M and 2013 Delaware State at North Dakota State.
- The four FCS schools to host GameDay won their home games by a combined score of 160-33, with Williams and North Dakota State shutting out their opponents.
- Lee Corso is 13-2 in his Week 3 headgear picks.
- North Dakota State is ranked No. 1 in the FCS Poll. GameDay has been to a home game featuring an AP No. 1-ranked team in the FBS 17 times. Those 17 teams went 16-1, with the only loss being Stanford’s win at Oregon in 2012. Last year the top-ranked Bison beat Delaware State 51-0 while hosting GameDay.
- GameDay has never visited these 17 Power Five schools: Baylor, Cal, Duke, Kansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa State, Louisville, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi State, Ole Miss, Rutgers, Syracuse, Virginia, Wake Forest and Washington State.
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