'College Gameday' spurns the SEC once again, opting for a late season nonconference game
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ESPN's Saturday morning pregame show, "College GameDay," is a staple for many college football fans each weekend. For Week 12, the show will be heading to Pittsburgh for the Panthers' home nonconference matchup against the No. 9 Notre Dame Fighting Irish.
After two straight weeks featuring the Big 12 Conference, going to Cincinnati at Utah and last week attending BYU at Texas Tech, GameDay will now broadcast from an ACC site for just the second time this season. The show was at the Week 4 Florida-Miami game.
Pittsburgh will host the show for the fourth time in school history. However, because the Panthers play their home games at Acrisure Stadium, GameDay won't actually be on the Pitt campus; it will be outside the stadium.
Perhaps to the chagrin of SEC fans, GameDay chose Pitt-Notre Dame over two top-10 SEC matchups: No. 10 Texas vs. No. 5 Georgia and No.10 Oklahoma vs. No. 4 Alabama. For a neutral Colorado fan myself, it is nice to see GameDay spread the wealth, so to speak.
Including Week 12, GameDay will have attended two Big 12 campuses, two ACC campuses, five SEC campuses and three Big Ten campuses. GameDay has attended 12 different locations this season.
Nick Saban, Kirk Herbstreit, Rece Davis, Desmond Howard and Pat McAfee serve as college football experts for GameDay, with a celebrity guest picker also chiming in.
College GameDay's Week 12 announcement
COLLEGE GAMEDAY IS HEADED TO PITTSBURGH AND PAT IS HEADED HOME‼️
We’ll be outside Acrisure Stadium for our first Saturday show in the Steel City in 20 years!@PatMcAfeeShowpic.twitter.com/Fj60IytzCq
— College GameDay (@CollegeGameDay) November 9, 2025
GameDay's 2025 locations
- Week 1: Texas at Ohio State
- Week 2: Michigan at Oklahoma
- Week 3: Georgia at Tennessee
- Week 4: Florida at Miami
- Week 5: Oregon at Penn State
- Week 6: Vanderbilt at Alabama
- Week 7: Indiana at Oregon
- Week 8: Ole Miss at Georgia
- Week 9: Missouri at Vanderbilt
- Week 10: Cincinnati at Utah
- Week 11: BYU at Texas Tech
- Week 12: Notre Dame at Pittsburgh
Predicting GameDay's Week 13 location
With several SEC teams facing off against nonconference opponents next week, it seems like the conference might be off the table for GameDay. The top matchup of the week is far and away Oregon's home game against a USC team still hanging on to a College Football Playoff berth. Usually, that seems like a good choice for hosting the show, but since GameDay has already been to Oregon's campus, it seems less likely. Could the show go entirely out of the box?
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