ESPN GameDay is coming for Florida-Kentucky
Saturday, January 31, 2015 | Men's Basketball, Women's Swimming & Diving, Chris Harry
GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- Get ready, Rowdy Reptiles.
GameDay is coming.
ESPN announced Saturday morning that its College GameDay Covered by State Farm, the network's show that takes its crew and set on the road, will be at UF next weekend when the Gators play host No. 1-ranked Kentucky on Feb. 7 at the O'Connell Center.
The Florida-Kentucky showdown will air on ESPN at 9 p.m., but the day's festivities, features and GameDay coverage -- led by host Rece Davis and featuring analysts Jay Bilas, Seth Greenberg and Jay Williams, plus reporter Shannon Spake -- will begin at 10 a.m. with a taped portion on ESPNU and shift to ESPN at 11 a.m. and its live on-site coverage before feeding into the network's slate of games at noon.
There also will be an 8 p.m. hour-long primetime show that will lead into the UF-UK game.
This will mark the fourth tour through Gainesville for GameDay, which will barnstormed through in 2006, '08 and '11, and the seventh time for the Gators. UF was road team last year when GameDay pumped up a morning crowd at Rupp Arena, where hours later Florida beat Kentucky on the way to its historic unbeaten conference season.
[Feel free to relive that game here]
But this time, it'll be Kentucky, already at 20-0, making a run at history, with “Pursuit of Perfection” theme, courtesy of Coach John Calipari.
Stay tuned into GatorZone for times and participation details.
