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Ever since I was a little kid, I would drag myself out of bed at 7:30 on Saturday mornings to watch ESPN College Gameday, college football’s only show that broadcasts live in front of a crowd of rowdy college students cheering on their alma mater’s team. I was never one to sacrifice sleep, but come college football season, sleep always took a backseat to the pigskin...
...College Gameday was my pregame for all of Saturday’s big showdowns—no football game could be watched without the analysis, behind-the-scene features and predictions from hosts Kirk Herbstreit, Lee Corso, and Chris Fowler, three charismatic guys who really know their football...
...beyond the fight songs, the eye candy (SEC coeds, anyone?) and the X’s and O’s, Gameday introduced me to an aspect of the game that truly got me hooked on college football: rivalry...
...victory that day. A win would give fair Harvard not only a share of the Ivy League title but another year’s worth of bragging rights over Yale—a prize arguably just as coveted. If only for a weekend, Harvard had the same swagger and gameday atmosphere of schools like USC or Florida...
...still wake up early on Saturdays to watch College Gameday. But this time around, that aura of envy I once had for students who have big-time football teams to cheer for no longer exists in my mind...