The biggest college football game ever deserves the sport's premier pregame show. According to VP of customer service and guest experience at Bristol Motor Speedway Ben Trout, ESPN is likely to broadcast College GameDay from Bristol before Virginia Tech matches up with Tennessee in primetime at 8:00 PM on ABC.
"We have a pretty good indication, pretty good feeling, that Kirk Herbstreit and his crew will be in town for College GameDay," Trout said. "We feel like that's going to happen. We're still waiting on some official confirmation on that."
The only other intriguing games that Saturday are Penn State-Pittsburgh and Arkansas-TCU.
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Would of rather had #GameDay4Frank but I'll take it.
Pardon me if I'm not overjoyed... this is going to be a SEC love fest and they're going to spend 95% of the time reminding everyone why Tennessee is so good. And, oh right, Fuente is replacing Beamer, they'll have a quick segment on that before going back to the SEC.
This is true... good thing I will be there and not listening to it
Yep this is accurate, although I won't be at all surprised if they get beamer himself up there
What a great thought that is. :--)
Time to switch gears #Frank4GameDay
None of that matters if we win the game. Winning matters a lot more to recruits than exposure on Gameday.
You're certainly not wrong, but it will make a win and Fuente's coming out party that much sweeter.
"And here's Kaylee Hartung with an in-depth piece on the Tide's big matchup with Western Kentucky"
Edit: Just cause
didn't see the mic at first and thought "bummer of a birthmark..."
who cares? It's still cool to have them there and if we win, none of that stuff you mention will matter
The pity party right now is embarassing. Plus the constant SEC inferiority complex is embarrassing too...let's just enjoy the exposure and stop being so negative.
You are absolutely correct. We'll be on the big stage with a great chance to make a statement. What in the world is there not to like? If we're winning, they'll be scrambling to tell our story for sure, but they will do it if we force the issue.
All the better when we upset Tenn.
Bring it on. Seriously, let's get back to the blue collar attitude that VT is known for. I don't care WHY ESPN is interested in this game, let's make it about us dammit.
First off, the SEC has been and is better than the ACC, and has a huge following, so anybody in the business of making money is going to definitely take advantage of that. Secondly, I think you are wrong....I predict that we and everybody else will be sick of hearing about the Beamer to Fuente transition this year due to getting too much attention, especially in week 2 when no better story lines have materialized.
Even better. I was in school in 1999 when they came for either Miami or Syracuse I can't remember, but they kept saying, this is it, this is the look. But mv7 had other plans. Afterwards, they kept saying upset. I like being the underdog
This is going to be a phenomenal opportunity for Fuente and Co. I hope he is able to capitalize in the National Spotlight. Show off some of that Hokie Swagger.
Please let us win. Please....
...says everyone in Knoxville
Time for some Bud Foster game 1 (2) magic.
This is great news!
Seems like an ideal atmosphere for Gameday. Should be a good time.
Tennessee has an outside chance to be ranked in top 10, great chance for VT to improve their WONDERFUL record even more against top 10 teams!!!
Should be okay as long as they aren't #1.
or #2, #3, #4, or #5
The one thing that could make this fun, is with all the people camping, the sights around GameDay would be really fun to be televised. Hopefully they will travel around to some of the more extravagant campsites/tailgates to see what sort of trouble everyone is getting into.
Do the other network crews go on location? Maybe we can have a Battle of Network Pregames at Bristol.
Then it would truly be big. Hide the tridents.
Our local NBC station, WCYB usually goes around the camp and rv sites during race weeks. I believe they will do the same for the biggest ever college football game, with a slight bias towards UT.
The crowd that could be around for that GameDay..with all the people camping? Could be a site to see. Plus if we are lucky they will get Sam Ponder to walk around to all the different camping tailgates to see what sort of trouble everyone is getting in to.
Wow. Apparently I was having so much fun at work yesterday I didn't realize I basically wrote the same post twice. Time wasting is getting in the way of my time wasting.
Now officially confirmed: GameDay will be in Bristol for the game.
http://virginiatech.247sports.com/Bolt/Confirmed-ESPN-College-GameDay-wi...
Sweet!
Game Day for
FrankJustin!Awesome!
I'm also hearing they haven't fully announced all the day of festivities for that day. Supposedly, they're opening the gates at something like 3 or 4 and having in-stadium entertainment all the way up to kickoff.
So much awesome stuff, it's a shame they are wasting it all by only having Budweiser products.
Welp, looks like my drinking is going have to happen before the game....
GameDay will be on the side where most VT fans will be!
I was wondering if the graphic placement was accurate. Buddy of mine asked the Battle twitter account if it was the actual spot and no response. I hope it is! Almost seems biased. Tennessee fans will feel the burn if they venture over there.
It's correct...
ESPN's College GameDay in Bristol: What you need to know