College football just means more.
ESPN’s flagship college football pregame show is headed Lubbock, Texas this weekend for the highly anticipated matchup between the Texas Tech Red Raiders and the BYU Cougars at Jones AT&T Stadium. This will be the second week in a row that College GameDay stays out west (and picks a non-SEC matchup). Last weekend, they were in Salt Lake City for a game between Cincinnati and Utah.
The likes of Kirk Herbstreit, Rece Davis, Desmond Howard, Pat McAfee, and Nick Saban will be set up to break down all things college football and predict the biggest games of the weekend, with the marquee matchup being the Big 12 showdown between No. 9 ranked Red Raiders and the No. 8 ranked Brigham Young University Cougars. And fans at Texas Tech are more than ready for the ESPN program (progrum, if you were to ask McAfee) to make it’s way to campus.
Want to know how I know that? Well, students have been camping out where College GameDay will be set up since Monday. That means some who have staked out spots will have been there for almost a full week once the sun comes up and Herbstreit, Davis, Howard, McAfee, and Saban start breaking down football.
These college kids are literally putting the “camp” in campus:
@kinseyrae14 committed fan base over here! #onlymonday #texastechfootball #collegegameday ♬ original sound – STS Ranch
Oh to be a college kid again, camping out and throwing the pigskin around with your friends.
The Red Raiders-Cougars matchup should be one heck of a Top-10 matchup to watch… for some. As of right now, YouTube TV and Disney/ESPN have still not come to a licensing agreement, which means we’re creeping closer and closer to a second week without college football on ESPN (for those that call themselves YouTube TV customers).
While a lot of ESPN employees have taken to social media to ask fans to contact YouTube TV on their behalf about the dispute, ESPN’s most prominent personality and one of the College GameDay hosts – Pat McAfee – ripped into his coworkers (for asking fans to fix the problem that the fault of billion dollar companies) and the network that he calls home (for not getting a deal done):
“We’re all done with it. And also, if you’re on TV, stop telling people to go to a website to save a multi-billion dollar deal. Nobody cares what you have to say. There will be nothing that we say, or any website that we say, that will get this thing done…
A lot of people saying ‘greedy corporations.’ It’s like, yeah, need each other, especially with where sports are right now. And we’re in the middle of it, so let’s get that done. And stop asking me to go to a website. I don’t want to do that, so stop… All you’re doing is pissing everybody off even more. So it’s like, let’s just not do that.”
Well said there by Pat McAfee.
I sure hope I get to watch College GameDay live from Lubbock, Texas, but I suppose that’s up to ESPN and YouTube TV to figure out before Saturday. At this point, it feels like the odds of me driving to Texas and camping out with the Red Raiders fans are higher than YouTube TV customers getting ESPN back…
