Kirk Herbstreit confirms Kentucky was a 'lock' to host College GameDay without South Carolina loss

Kentucky cost themselves a lot with their 25-point loss to South Carolina last weekend. That includes the chance of being the feature location for ESPN’s College GameDay this weekend.

In a thread of tweets about this week’s location of Columbia for No. 16 LSU at South Carolina, Kirk Herbstreit explained that he and Chris Fowler would have originally been calling No. 1 Georgia at Kentucky on Saturday night. However, since they “spit the bit” with their 31-6 defeat to the Gamecocks, the show pivoted to the other conference game at the noon kickoff slot.

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Because Kentucky spit the bit last week. CGD was a lock for UK if Cats won last week and we would have called the game as well. But South Carolina dominating that game we always adjust to the results from the previous week. https://t.co/tFwmXtGS9g

— Kirk Herbstreit (@KirkHerbstreit) September 12, 2024

“Because Kentucky spit the bit last week,” Herbstreit tweeted. “CGD was a lock for UK if Cats won last week and we would have called the game as well. But South Carolina dominating that game we always adjust to the results from the previous week.”

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South Carolina, with their third consecutive win over the Wildcats, dealt them blows in more than one way. On the one hand, the loss has already been a major inflection point for their season, especially with what’s still to come on their schedule. On the other hand, it has now been confirmed by multiple people that they stole the feature of College GameDay and all that comes with that away from Lexington.

Instead, Sean McDonough, Greg McElroy, and Molly McGrath will now call ‘Dawgs vs. ‘Cats on ABC and ESPN+. That’s the exact same broadcast team that called their loss to the Gamecocks.

Kentucky hasn’t hosted College GameDay in 17 seasons since back in 2007. That stretch will now continue on past this weekend with the Wildcats giving that opportunity up.

College GameDay announces Dawn Staley as Celebrity Guest Picker

College GameDay isn’t going far for this week’s celebrity guest picker for South Carolina vs. LSU.

Per a post on social media, Dawn Staley has been selected as their guest picker for Week Three.

A national champion, a Hall of Famer and an icon 🤩@dawnstaley is this week’s guest picker! pic.twitter.com/Jao0zTxKaU

— College GameDay (@CollegeGameDay) September 12, 2024

Staley posted a message through the Twitter account for the show after being announced as the guest picker.

“Hey, what’s up Gamecock fams?” Staley said. “I heard you. I saw you on social media asking me to be the guest picker on College GameDay. Well, guess what? When you speak, people listen. So I want to thank you for choosing me to be the guest picker on College GameDay.

“I’ll be out there at Gamecock Park, 9 a.m. I need to see you out there because we’re going to blow this thing out. We’re going to make sure that they know who we are, what we do and make sure our football team feels you,” Staley said. “We need this win. Come start it off at Gamecock Park, College GameDay. Let’s go and let’s go Gamecocks.”