Talk:College GameDay (football)

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Contents 1 Pullman 2 Locations 3 logo 4 Huh? 5 Rife with inaccuracy 6 Interesting (now historical) bias worth adding? 7 Changed Importance 8 should new commentators be added 9 September 16 controversy 10 Picks 11 Influence

[edit] Pullman

Why is there a section on Pullman? I'm sure many colleges would like to host the College GameDay, but have not yet been selected. I don't feel that its relevant to the rest of the article and it should be deleted... --Clarkbhm 17:01, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

It's gone...Clarkbhm 05:43, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Locations

Does anyone have a database on location, school, ratings, dates, etc for both basketball and football?

I've removed the tables that, I suppose, were supposed to provide this information. There was only one game in there and it didn't even have all of this information. Furthermore, the table wasn't implemented correctly. I removed it completely. If this information can be provided, I do not object to having it in there as long as it is correctly implemented. Clarkbhm 05:43, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

i dont see why we need to have a locations section theres no point and u probalby cant get them all

Actually, the show has only gone live for like 10 years, I dont think its that hard

I can't vouch for the accuracy of this list, but here is a list of Gameday football locations and results. BigDT 19:54, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

I can vouch for the accuracy...It's completely correct. ODaddyO

September 30th, 2006 - #1 Ohio State @ #13 Iowa - Iowa City, IA

I feel this location guide is necessary, I would have never found it (I've been looking), but this was the first place I found it at. I think it should stay. If it gets too long, it can be made into its own article. Zchris87v 20:50, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] logo

There should be a seperate one for college basketball

[edit] Huh?

This isn't true:

The show's primary sponsor is hardware store Home Depot, who designed and built the show's portable broadcast studio. On rare occasions, when the outdoor broadcast has been "rained out" it will originate instead from the ESPN studios.

On plenty of occasions, they have broadcast in the rain. When they broadcast from the studio, it's because there isn't a game worth going to.

Also, I think "built by the Home Depot" is just an ad slogan - I'm pretty sure that their set predates the slogan and that Home Depot didn't actually physically build the thing. BigDT 19:50, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rife with inaccuracy

Not much on this page is correct. Don't know who's coming up with this crap...Jill Arrington? C'mon. Do your homework. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by ODaddyO (talk • contribs).

Please feel free to correct anything that is wrong. I have removed the bit about Jill Arrington. BigDT 20:46, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Interesting (now historical) bias worth adding?

Until 2004's Cal @ USC game, GameDay had only ventured west of the Rockies once in its then-11-year history, for a game of the PNW schools (Oregon or Washington, I admit I can't remember). There was a concerted, documented lobbying effort by USC students to get GameDay to visit (including a USC intern ESPN's HQ in Conn), and now there have been a number of West Coast games. To be fair, part of the issue keeping GameDay at bay was how early they would have to start on the West Coast in order to cover the early East Coast games --they were afraid no one would show up, as well as the pervasive cliche that fans out West aren't as serious/crazy as the notably passionate fan bases in the SEC, etc. --Bobak 15:38, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Changed Importance

I went ahead and changed the importance of this article to Mid from Top because the subject is not core to college football. I was debating whether or not to make the article high or mid. I decided to place it at mid because I am not very familiar with the subject and does not directly affect the sport. Bornagain4 22:01, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Here's a way to frame it (and I don't have a strong opinion one way or the other): this is the College Football show now, with nary a dissenting voice. The question then is: what would such a show rank: top or middle? I would certainly say at the least where it is now at "mid", but no less. --Bobak 02:25, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] should new commentators be added

While the core GameDay crew has stayed the same on the Saturday live broadcasts, how about the new folks being pulled in? They brought in Lou Holtz recently, and now they announced (at the first pre-season GameDay last Saturday) that Doug Flutie is on the team. Should that be mentioned, and should the changes in line-up be mentioned from year to year like some other long-running shows? (for a loose example: The Daily Show and its commentators) --Bobak 02:25, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] September 16 controversy

I think that, if properly worded, something should be added about ESPN's absurd choice of location for last week's game. The game was probably the 4th biggest game of the day, but ESPN sent gameday there anyway. ESPN pretty much admitted that they chose that location because that was the ABC game. I think it is certainly something worth mentioning as this represents a shift from ESPN usually letting the gameday crew decide where they want to go [1].--Sensation002 02:09, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Here's a proposed middle ground: I've made it a less SEC-POV footnote with the actual game listing. Tha As of right now, that's all it can realistically be called after less than a week. If there's a trend that lasts beyond one week of the alleged controversy, then maybe there's a reason to add it to main text. At this point, it's likely to be forgotten --especially outside of the passion of the SEC (for example, ND and Michigan fans have been notable apathetic), that blog cited as "authority" is run by two SEC alumni. Right now it's just a slightly toned down version of all the anonymous IP SEC-fan stuff that was thrown onto this article less than a week ago. There are similar issues when fans of The Colbert Report keep wanting to add new articles for every new idea that pops up on the show: the idea there was to see if the new idea (or in this case, "controversy") had legs before canonizing it in an article to be read (assumably) 5 years from now --and outside of one conference. --Bobak 19:52, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, but I don't see how the background of a blogger affects his abillity to quote a post by Chris Fowler. --Sensation002 12:07, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

What was this about again? I already forgot. --Bobak 20:16, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Sorry I couldn't get back to you sooner, I have been busy doing things other than patrolling Wikipedia, believe it or not. I don't think your joke is very funny, and I do believe that if Gameday heads out to the west coast again this week then you will see that this is not just a one-time problem. Texas-OU and LSU-Florida are certainly bigger games than a couple of inconsistent Pac-10 teams playing. I would also say that Tennessee-UGA is a bigger game, although I will admit that I am biased toward seeing the crew pay a visit to my hometown. Check back with me when they announce where they are headed this weekend and we will see if this is a problem or not.--Sensation002 19:21, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Updated. Hmmm... --Bobak 20:03, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Gameday is at the Vols at Gamecocks, picked over the only ranked vs. ranked game over with the Sooners visiting Missouri. --Bobak 17:20, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Reason being because they were apparently "already close", but it was mostly because the week before, they visited Clemson, and to satisfy the SEC, they had to go visit their rival school. As shown by Tennessee's defeat of South Carolina, it would've been more worth it to go to the Oklahoma-Mizzou game.

[edit] Picks

It would be nice if we could get the picks by Corso and Kirk for all the games.

DK08 20:06

• Agreed. They are listed on the page referenced next to the "Locations" category title if someone wants to add them to the entry. -- TexasDawg 19:17, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Influence

Seeing that FOX's NFL pre-game show now takes place outdoors, with fans gathered behind the broadcasters and carrying homemade signs and whatnot - clearly in the GameDay style - shows the program's influence. Are other pre-game shows (regardless of sport) "tailgating?"

Also, should the baskeball version GameDay get a separate article, judging by the length of the football section, like the radio version already has?

I agree with adding both to the article, I think that the basketball can be expanded, if it doesn't already have its own article. Zchris87v