Big & Rich announce 'Comin' To Your City' will no longer open ESPN College GameDay
College GameDay will have a new theme song this fall. ‘Comin’ to Your City’ will no longer be the opening song for the popular ESPN college football pregame show.
Big & Rich announced on Thursday that they will “officially pass the torch after 16 incredible years.”
ESPN has yet to reveal what song will replace ‘Comin’ to Your City’ as the opening for the show.
“It’s been a great 16 years being the voices of the College GameDay open, and now we’re excited to officially pass the torch to these extremely talented artists,” Big & Rich posted on Twitter/X. “We can’t say who just yet, but tune in to ESPN on Saturday, Sept. 2 at 9 a.m. to find out.”
A new opening song is one of several changes coming to College GameDay for the 2023 college football season. David Pollack and Gene Wojciechowski, who were a key part of the show for years, were laid off this summer and will no longer appear on the show.
Host Rece Davis appeared on The Paul Finebaum Show earlier this week and admitted this season will not feel the same.
“We’re excited about the season, think it’s going to be a great season. But the guys who aren’t with us contributed mightily to it,” Davis said. “You know, I think I’ve said many times, I don’t have a better friend on Earth than David Pollack. That’s going to be different for me.
“I didn’t have a stronger confidant and more of a journalistic conscience and friend than Gene Wojciechowski. That’s going to be different for me. And we have some people behind the scenes that have changed as well.”
College GameDay to kick things off Week 0
Week 0 has officially arrived and the countdown to Navy–Notre Dame has already begun. Davis says there will be College GameDay on Saturday, using it as what he describes as an NFL joint practice. A bit of a test run before the regular season officially kicks off.
The first traditional GameDay broadcast of the 2023 season will take place from Charlotte on Sept 2.
“Looking forward to the Week Zero show. Sort of looked at as a warm-up, sort of a walk-through or the — sort of like if you are an NFL fan, sort of like those organized practices that two teams get together do against each other,” Davis said.
“We want to have a great show, but that’s sort of what Week Zero’s like and then Week One in Charlotte, with North Carolina and South Carolina, I think, will be a great atmosphere and we’ll continue to do what GameDay’s has been built on for a number of years and I’m excited about starting my ninth season as the host.”