The College Football Playoff kicks off on Friday with a matchup between the No. 9-seeded Alabama Crimson Tide and No. 8-seeded Oklahoma Sooners. Unlike its usual one-school-per-week studio location during the regular season,

ESPN College GameDay announced its celebrity guest pickers for its dueling live shows on Friday and Saturday in Norman and College Station, respectively, for this weekend’s opening round of the 2025 College Football Playoffs.

ESPN made a prestigious announcement honoring legendary analyst Lee Corso just days before the College Football Playoff begins.

Herbstreit posted a video last week talking with fellow analyst Joey Galloway and which he captioned, "Saturday not having college football threw us

Of course, GameDay's predictions don't mean as much in Army-Navy, which is the best rivalry in college football. Both Army (6-5) and Navy (9-2) are bowl bound and both teams want nothing more than to beat their rival.

College GameDay continued to win the college football pregame show viewership battle over Big Noon Kickoff, despite the two-week YouTube TV dispute. However, both Big Noon Kickoff and College GameDay saw significant increases in viewership over last year.