Kansas football to host ESPN's 'College GameDay' for the first time ahead of game vs. TCU
You win, and they'll come.
The story of unbeaten Kansas (5-0) is bringing ESPN's beloved college football pre-game show, College GameDay, to Lawrence ahead of the TCU (4-0) matchup on Saturday. ESPN and Kansas both announced the news hours after the Jayhawks held off Iowa State 14-11 on Saturday. This will be the first time Kansas is featured on GameDay at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium.
"Let’s make this the best College Gameday ever Jayhawks!" Jayhawks deputy athletic director for external affairs and revenue generation Jason Booker tweeted. "Incredible opportunity to shine a light on this team, our campus and the Lawrence community. Rock Chalk!"
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The Jayhawks' game against the Horned Frogs is scheduled to kick off at 11 a.m. Saturday and air on FS1. It'll be the seventh stop for College GameDay this year, following a matchup Saturday between Clemson and North Carolina State in Clemson, South Carolina. And to date, it's the first to feature a team in the Big 12 Conference since Sept. 10 when the show went to Austin for Texas' game against Alabama.
Kansas wasn't ranked in the top 25 of the coaches poll at the time of the show's announcement but almost certainly will be by the time the game against TCU comes around. The Jayhawks were just outside of the top 25 heading into the matchup against the Cyclones this weekend. And there were more than a few who thought Kansas should have been ranked already.
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"A battle of the unbeatens," is the way College GameDay described the upcoming matchup in a post on Twitter.
Jordan Guskey covers University of Kansas Athletics at The Topeka Capital-Journal. Contact him at jmguskey@gannett.com or on Twitter at @JordanGuskey.
This article originally appeared on Topeka Capital-Journal: ESPN's College GameDay comes to Kansas football for first time Oct. 8
