BATON ROUGE, La. -- ESPN announced on Saturday night that its weekly traveling show
College GameDay, Built by The Home Depot (26th season of road shows) will be making its way to Baton Rouge, La. to broadcast from the site of the top-ten, and potential top-five, SEC contest between the Gators and LSU Tigers.
For fans making the trip to Baton Rouge, details about the show will be released next week.
This will be the Gators' third appearance on the show this season (8/24 vs. Miami; 10/5 vs. Auburn), marking the first time since 2012 with three
GameDay appearances (9/8/2012 at Texas A&M; 9/15/2012 at Tennessee; 10/20/2012 vs. South Carolina). In addition, this will be the first Florida-LSU matchup feature on
College GameDay since Oct. 10, 2009, when UF defeated LSU inside Tiger Stadium, 13-3.
College football Saturdays continue this season as they have for more than 30 years with
College GameDay, one of the most iconic shows in all of television. Featuring its one-of-a-kind recipe blending entertainment, news, information and analysis, with superb storytelling, the program unfolds weekly in front of an unrivaled atmosphere from 9 a.m. – noon ET. This past May, the program captured its 11th Sports Emmy as a unit and the accolades extended to its commentators: Kirk Herbstreit was honored with the Sports Emmy for Outstanding Studio Analyst across all sports – his third such award for his work on the show (2010, 2011) – and Rece Davis was nominated in the Outstanding Studio Host category. Analysts Lee Corso, Desmond Howard, David Pollack and reporter Maria Taylor join Herbstreit and Davis onsite each week, along with features reporters Jen Lada, Tom Rinaldi and Gene Wojciechowski.
Saturday will mark the 41st time Florida has appeared on GameDay, the third highest total in the country. The Gators' 26-14 (.650) record ranks fifth-best in the nation for schools who have played in 10 or more GameDay contests.
This week's matchup between the Gators and Tigers marks their 66th contest and their first game against each other in Baton Rouge since 2016. Florida leads the overall series 33-29-3.
