Fans Impressed With Timothée Chalamet's Ball Knowledge As 'College GameDay' Guest Picker

The actor came prepared as the guest picker on 'College GameDay' Saturday.

Chalamet making picks with GameDay's Herbstreit and McAfee on Saturday. | Screengrab via ESPN/College GameDay

Actor Timothée Chalamet came prepared as the guest picker on ESPN's College GameDay in advance of championship Saturday.

Chalamet wasn't there to give his picks and move on. He studied, took some notes, and was ready to spit his ball knowledge on national television.

TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET ELITE BALL KNOWLEDGE 😤 😂 @RealChalamet pic.twitter.com/Vci23UK8nx

— College GameDay (@CollegeGameDay) December 7, 2024

"I've been doing my research all night," Chalamet said on the show as he got ready to make his picks. "I'm gonna come with the sharpest picks anyone has ever seen on College GameDay."

Football fans were impressed, and pretty surprised, with the masterclass Chalamet put on:

Timothée Chalamet has done his homework here and taken the picking assignment extremely seriously.

— RedditCFB (@RedditCFB) December 7, 2024

Timothée Chalamet just used the word daïs correctly in context on GameDay, this may be a first for the program and it’s quite possibly unrecoverably classy.

— RedditCFB (@RedditCFB) December 7, 2024

“Timothee Chalamet, I owe you an apology — I wasn’t familiar with your game.” pic.twitter.com/MDq0vcbSnT

— College Sports Only (@CollegeSportsO) December 7, 2024

Timothee Chalamet being a real deal college football fan, being a SMU fan, and knowing about all these teams was so crazy to me. I thought just invited cause famous, but he was a legit great guest picker on College Gameday.

— Chris Vernon (@ChrisVernonShow) December 7, 2024

Ohio University QB Parker Navarro when Timothee Chalamet starts breaking down his stats on College Gameday pic.twitter.com/S7WAJnUXBt

— Randy (@randy__vision) December 7, 2024

Did NOT have Timothee Chalamet breaking down college football in depth on my 2024 bingo card.

Best Gameday guest picker this season. pic.twitter.com/glbrZRYQ9c

— Yanni Tragellis (@yannitragellis) December 7, 2024

Timothée Chalamet talking about yards per carry on College GameDay. pic.twitter.com/8fneJp6eel

— Kevin Redfern (@KevinMRedfern13) December 7, 2024

You are all fools for doubting Timothée Chalamet’s knowledge of ball. He drank the Water of Life. pic.twitter.com/BommKnO54a

— Ross Bolen (@WRBolen) December 7, 2024

“Haha they got the little actor guy to go on college gameday, from the movies!”

Timothée Chalamet:
pic.twitter.com/LJZRXIuSOr

— Gary Treeman (@PurpyNFL) December 6, 2024

For the game of the week, the SEC championship game between Georgia and Texas, Chalamet sided with his "movie dad" Matthew McConaughey and picked Texas. Chalamet played McConaughey's son in the movie Interstellar.

Here are Chalamet's full picks from his appearance on GameDay so you can keep track of how he does:

Game	Timothée Chalamet's Pick
SEC Championship	Texas over Georgia
Big Ten Championship	Oregon over Penn State
ACC Championship	SMU over Clemson
Big 12 Championship	Arizona State over Iowa State
Sun Belt Championship	Louisiana over Marshall
MAC Championship	Ohio over Miami (OH)
SWAC Championship	Jackson State over Southern

No matter how Chalamet's picks turn out, he proved he knows ball. Or maybe, he tried to prove that he was the real "Himothée Chalamet."

Himothee chalamet https://t.co/494BsZnf9O

— josh giddey (@joshgiddey) January 14, 2023

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