ESPN College GameDay will be LIVE at the Champions Classic
Your favorite college basketball pregame show will be on the scene at Madison Square Garden before the Kentucky basketball team takes center stage at one of the biggest events in the sport.
ESPN College GameDay will broadcast LIVE before the Champions Classic on Tuesday, Nov. 18 at 6 PM ET. The 30-minute program will lead into the matchup between No. 9 Kentucky and No. 22 Michigan State.
In addition to College GameDay, the broadcast will get a large college football audience. In between the Kentucky win and the Duke-Kansas nightcap, a new batch of CFP rankings will be revealed. By moving back the Champions Classic a few weeks, it amplifies this batch of rankings with only two regular season games remaining.
It’s currently unclear who will be on the dais for ESPN. The college football element adds a wrinkle to the intermission. The four-letter network has not announced who will be on this year’s edition of College GameDay. During the 2025-26 season, Rece Davis was joined by Jay Bilas, Andraya Carter, Jay Williams, and Seth Greenberg.
Okay, now I can stop being polite. College GameDay is a terrible television show. That’s not because Seth Greenberg is mad at Kentucky fans for how they treated his BFF, John Calipari. It’s been bad for a long time.
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The football version of College GameDay is having its best season ever. They are breaking viewership records almost every week. You know why? The people on that show care about the sport and have fun talking about it. People want to be a part of the conversation.
You don’t get that same feel at all in the college basketball version. It’s a sterile environment filled with a bunch of old grumps who prefer to talk down at you instead of with you. Carter injected some life into the show last year, but she could only do so much.
Who knows, maybe they will figure out how to make a quality basketball pregame show this season, but I’m not holding my breath.
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