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ESPN's 'College GameDay' coming for Bedlam

The networks's flagship pregame program hasn't been to OU since 2012
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ESPN's 'College GameDay' coming for Bedlam
ESPN's 'College GameDay' coming for Bedlam

Bedlam just got bigger.

ESPN’s “College GameDay” will originate next Saturday’s broadcast from Norman, the network announced on Saturday night.

It’s been eight years that ESPN’s flagship college football pregame show has been on the OU campus, the last time coming before the Sooners’ prime-time loss to No 5-ranked Notre Dame.

The show indicates the No. 18-ranked Sooners (5-2 overall, 3-2) and No. 14 Cowboys (5-1, 4-1) have the premier game in college football next week, although Indiana-Ohio State makes a compelling case. 

OU and OSU meet at 6:30 p.m. at Owen Field with the winner clearing a path to the Big 12 Championship Game. Saturday's game will be televised by ABC.

It’s the eighth appearance for “College GameDay” in Norman. It’s the 38th time OU has hosted the show (fourth-most nationally), and it’s the seventh time “GameDay” has staged before a Bedlam game (OU is 6-0 in the previous meetings).

The 2020 college football season has been odd, to say the least, and pregame TV shows have been affected like everything else. "GameDay" originated this week from The Masters Tournament in Augusta, GA. There have been no crowds attending "GameDay" sets this year due to COVID restrictions, and Oklahoma has eliminated on-campus tailgating in 2020.

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John E. Hoover
JOHN E. HOOVER

John is an award-winning journalist whose work spans five decades in Oklahoma, with multiple state, regional and national awards as a sportswriter at various newspapers. During his newspaper career, John covered the Dallas Cowboys, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Oklahoma Sooners, the Oklahoma State Cowboys, the Arkansas Razorbacks and much more. In 2016, John changed careers, migrating into radio and launching a YouTube channel, and has built a successful independent media company, DanCam Media. From there, John has written under the banners of Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, Fan Nation and a handful of local and national magazines while hosting daily sports talk radio shows in Oklahoma City, Tulsa and statewide. John has also spoken on Capitol Hill in Oklahoma City in a successful effort to put more certified athletic trainers in Oklahoma public high schools. Among the dozens of awards he has won, John most cherishes his national "Beat Writer of the Year" from the Associated Press Sports Editors, Oklahoma's "Best Sports Column" from the Society of Professional Journalists, and Two "Excellence in Sports Medicine Reporting" Awards from the National Athletic Trainers Association. John holds a bachelor's degree in Mass Communications from East Central University in Ada, OK. Born and raised in North Pole, Alaska, John played football and wrote for the school paper at Ada High School in Ada, OK. He enjoys books, movies and travel, and lives in Broken Arrow, OK, with his wife and two kids.

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