Aaron Donald joins ESPN's 'College GameDay' to pick Week 10's biggest games

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Aaron Donald joins ESPN's 'College GameDay' to pick Week 10's biggest games

With three weeks left in the regular season, the College Football Playoff race is heating up.

Three games Saturday featured ranked opponents playing each other. The ESPN "GameDay" crew set up shop in Pittsburgh, where the Panthers hosted No. 9 Notre Dame for one of the first kickoffs of the day. Elsewhere, No. 11 Oklahoma traveled to No. 4 Alabama for a mid-afternoon game and No. 21 Iowa went out to Los Angeles to play No. 18 Southern California. Then, in the evening, No. 5 Georgia played host to No. 10 Texas.

Ex-NFL great Aaron Donald, himself a former Pittsburgh defensive end, joined the set to make predictions on the week's best games. Donald, a the Super Bowl winner and three NFL Defensive Player of the Year, and the usual ESPN crew from the college-football preview show were down at field level instead of on campus or outside the stadium. The early kick played a role in that.

Here's how they picked them.

West Virginia at Arizona State

Desmond Howard: Arizona State

Nick Saban: Arizona State

Pat McAfee: West Virginia

Aaron Donald: Arizona State

Kirk Herbstreit: Arizona State

No. 24 South Florida at Navy

Nov 6, 2025; Tampa, Florida, USA; South Florida Bulls quarterback Byrum Brown (17) throws the ball against the UTSA Roadrunners during the second half at Raymond James Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kim Klement Neitzel-Imagn Images

Desmond Howard: USF

Nick Saban: USF

Pat McAfee: Navy

Aaron Donald: Navy

Kirk Herbstreit: USF

No. 19 Virginia at Duke

Desmond Howard: Duke

Nick Saban: Duke

Pat McAfee: Duke

Aaron Donald: Virginia

Kirk Herbstreit: Virginia

No. 21 Iowa at No. 17 Southern California

Nov 7, 2025; Los Angeles, California, USA; Southern California Trojans head coach Lincoln Riley watches game action against the Northwestern Wildcats during the second half at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Mandatory Credit: Gary A. Vasquez-Imagn Images

Desmond Howard: USC

Nick Saban: USC

Pat McAfee: Iowa

Aaron Donald: USC

Kirk Herbstreit: USC

Arizona at No. 25 Cincinnati

Desmond Howard: Cincinnati

Nick Saban: Cincinnati

Pat McAfee: Cincinnati

Aaron Donald: Cincinnati

Kirk Herbstreit: Arizona

Texas Christian at No. 12 Brigham Young

Oct 18, 2025; Fort Worth, Texas, USA; TCU Horned Frogs quarterback Josh Hoover (10) looks downfield against the Baylor Bears during the second half of a game at Amon G. Carter Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Raymond Carlin III-Imagn Images

Desmond Howard: BYU

Nick Saban: BYU

Pat McAfee: BYU

Aaron Donald: BYU

Kirk Herbstreit: TCU

No. 11 Oklahoma at No. 4 Alabama

Desmond Howard: Alabama

Nick Saban: Alabama

Pat McAfee: Oklahoma

Aaron Donald: Alabama

Kirk Herbstreit: Oklahoma

No. 10 Texas at No. 5 Georgia

Nov 1, 2025; Austin, Texas, USA; Texas Longhorns quarterback Arch Manning (16) passes ahead of Vanderbilt Commodores defensive back Thomas Jones (9) during the second half at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Scott Wachter-Imagn Images

Desmond Howard: Georgia

Nick Saban: Georgia

Pat McAfee: Georgia

Aaron Donald: Georgia

Kirk Herbstreit: No pick

No. 9 Notre Dame at No. 22 Pittsburgh

Desmond Howard: Pittsburgh

Nick Saban: Notre Dame

Pat McAfee: Notre Dame

Aaron Donald: Pittsburgh

Kirk Herbstreit: Notre Dame

This article originally appeared on Sooners Wire: Who did the ESPN 'College GameDay' crew pick for Week 10?

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