ESPN’s ‘College GameDay’ is headed to Indiana

ESPN’s flagship college football show is headed to the Hoosier state.

Next week, ESPN’s College GameDay will attend a game in Bloomington, Indiana for the second time ever, and first time since 2017. The college football roadshow will feature the undefeated Indiana University Hoosiers as they take on a new conference rival in the Washington Huskies.

Just announced: ESPN’s @CollegeGameDay is headed to 7-0 @IndianaFootball under 1st year coach @CCignettiIU this Saturday.

CGD has only been to Bloomington one other time – in 2017. Lee Corso coached the @IUHoosiers from 1973-82, so this show will be extra special. #IUFB pic.twitter.com/W0M6Hn9qwZ

— bill hofheimer (@bhofheimer_espn) October 20, 2024

The game will mark a return for one Lee Corso, who coached the Hoosiers for 10 seasons from 1973 to 1982. Corso made his return to GameDay in Austin, Texas on Saturday after sitting out two weeks during the show’s West Coast swing in Berkeley, California and Eugene, Oregon.

Notably, GameDay will take its show to Bloomington just one week after its chief competitor, Fox’s Big Noon Kickoff, attended a game there.

Indiana sits atop the Big Ten standings alongside Oregon and Penn State, both of which remain undefeated both in-conference and overall. ESPN chose Hoosiers-Huskies over a couple other marquee games next week. Notably, a top-25 Big Ten matchup between Oregon and Illinois and another top-25 SEC matchup between Alabama and Missouri.

In recent years, GameDay has trended towards highlighting locations that traditionally haven’t gotten the national spotlight, as evidenced by traveling to a Cal Golden Bears game earlier this season. And with the Hoosiers squarely in the College Football Playoff picture, it makes sense that ESPN would want to travel to Bloomington now, even if they won’t be the network airing the game.

[ESPN]