While there aren’t many stellar matchups during week twelve of the College Football season, you’d think ESPN could come up with a better game to send the Gameday crew to than Hampton at Florida A&M. For some reason though, that’s their choice for this coming Saturday’s slate of games, and it obviously marks the first time the pregame show has gone to visit the Rattlers in Tallahassee. Via the Daily Press….
HAMPTON – ESPN will telecast its College GameDay pregame show at Florida A&M on Saturday, beginning at 10 a.m., before the Rattlers’ 3:15 p.m. game against Hampton. FAMU becomes the first historically black college campus to host the program.
The game marks the first between schools since Joe Taylor left Hampton in late-December to become FAMU’s coach. Taylor coached the previous 16 seasons at Hampton, where his teams were 136-48-1 and won eight conference titles.
“That’s going to be a real big game,” Hampton coach Jerry Holmes said. “He’s part of my foundation of coaching. When I finished playing in the NFL, he was the first guy to give me an opportunity to coach some.
“I’m looking forward to motivating the guys and going down to Florida and playing against him.”
Now I would understand the move if either team was undefeated, or one of the team’s players was about to set a record. But to pick two schools, with a 5-4 record and 7-3 respectively, is a pretty odd decision. At least last year’s random trip to Massachusetts for the Williams-Amherst game had some history behind it. I think saying that choice was random would be the understatement of the decade.
GameDay to be at HU game (Daily Press)
