Through the years I have always enjoyed College Gameday, while I'm not a religous observer it certainly fills what is otherwise a typically dull and hungover saturday morning. However, I noticed this week that Gameday has decided to forego classic matchups of LSU vs. Auburn, Michigan vs. ND and Florida vs. Tennessee, for what you may ask, or already know if you are more than an uninformed peon, Nebraska visiting Southern Cal, a game with an 18 point spread. Then it hit me, Gameday is simply following the ABC primetime broadcast, A) To help promote and improve ratings and B) Herbstreit is working these games so he isn't going to do gameday in South Bend and then fly out to LA mid day.
Here's my problem, Gameday is going against its roots and its format, not only have they tried to go to the best game every week in the past in addition to going to some storied games like Army Navy, or Grambling, and now not so much but its annoying watching Herbstreit at the end of the telecast not be able to pick the "big game" of the day because he is working it, and blah integrity blah blah. In addition I wish they just came out and said thats what their doing instead, Herbsreit when asked yesterday in a chat on ESPN said he was surprised when he found out that gameday was going to USC and that they don't find out where they are going until mid week, ya mid week when ABC decides which game they want to move to the 8:00 pm slot.
Yesterday I was searching for the schedule to reaffirm my beliefs and went to the Wikipedia site, where a bitter man, probably and SEC student ripped the show, it was quite humurous unfortunately it is fixed now so no need to give you the link. This did reaffirm my belief that wikipedia is the greatest site on the planet though given you can find anything you want in addition to occasional having someone mess up one of the definitions making me laugh, and i like laughter.
So basically if you go to an SEC school or Notre Dame good luck ever attending College Gameday, because all those games are broadcast on CBS or NBC and they surely won't want to promote a game on a network Disney doesn't own. Money, Money, Money, atleast I haven't seen Rocket "I'll take Notre Dame over a team with Jesus at QB, Muhammed at Wideout, and Moses at Tailback" Ismail in awhile.
Here's my problem, Gameday is going against its roots and its format, not only have they tried to go to the best game every week in the past in addition to going to some storied games like Army Navy, or Grambling, and now not so much but its annoying watching Herbstreit at the end of the telecast not be able to pick the "big game" of the day because he is working it, and blah integrity blah blah. In addition I wish they just came out and said thats what their doing instead, Herbsreit when asked yesterday in a chat on ESPN said he was surprised when he found out that gameday was going to USC and that they don't find out where they are going until mid week, ya mid week when ABC decides which game they want to move to the 8:00 pm slot.
Yesterday I was searching for the schedule to reaffirm my beliefs and went to the Wikipedia site, where a bitter man, probably and SEC student ripped the show, it was quite humurous unfortunately it is fixed now so no need to give you the link. This did reaffirm my belief that wikipedia is the greatest site on the planet though given you can find anything you want in addition to occasional having someone mess up one of the definitions making me laugh, and i like laughter.
So basically if you go to an SEC school or Notre Dame good luck ever attending College Gameday, because all those games are broadcast on CBS or NBC and they surely won't want to promote a game on a network Disney doesn't own. Money, Money, Money, atleast I haven't seen Rocket "I'll take Notre Dame over a team with Jesus at QB, Muhammed at Wideout, and Moses at Tailback" Ismail in awhile.
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