If we lose at FSU, the Cal story and Gameday incentive for the Miami game becomes a lot less attractive.

If both Cal and Miami are undefeated going in, it becomes a very compelling story and the most attractive GD destination for that week, bar none.

FSU was ranked very highly until they unexpectedly lost two games. Cal can't look past them if they want to play on GameDay.

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If we lose at FSU, the Cal story and Gameday incentive for the Miami game becomes a lot less attractive.

If both Cal and Miami are undefeated going in, it becomes a very compelling story and the most attractive GD destination for that week, bar none.

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I certainly wasn't arguing against that point. But I think it's hard to make a case for a "lock' of another game, even if Cal has one loss.
Consider the following:
-everything being equal, meaning it's not a huge game, ESPN isn't going out of their way to go to a Big Ten Game for Game Day.
-maybe the biggest competitor: Alabama at Vanderbilt IF Vandy beats Missouri(same weekend Cal is at FSU). If they did, I think this game would be a close competitor even if Cal is undefeated.
-Cal helped themselves by beating Auburn, so I think they save Georgia for later in the year, so we eliminate Auburn-Georgia.
-highly ranked Ole Miss at S.Car: Game day is in Columbia this weekend.
-Clemson-Florida St: Okay, way too much Blue and Gold punch drinking, but I say undefeated highly ranked Miami vs. Cal gets the nod if Cal plays FSU tough, but only has 1 loss, vs. FSU's two awful losses.

What other game are they going to? What did I miss?

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FSU was ranked very highly until they unexpectedly lost two games. Cal can't look past them if they want to play on GameDay.

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We can't look past tomorrow! I am feeling nervous about our 18 point spread advantage and not sure how we do that well with so many hurt or resting. Would be great, and trust that Wilcox has them focused on tomorrow, not next week, but it still worries me.

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FSU was ranked very highly until they unexpectedly lost two games. Cal can't look past them if they want to play on GameDay.

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We can't look past tomorrow! I am feeling nervous about our 18 point spread advantage and not sure how we do that well with so many hurt or resting. Would be great, and trust that Wilcox has them focused on tomorrow, not next week, but it still worries me.

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I'm okay if they don't cover.

Need to include the argument that Cal is only one of six FBS teams (I think excluding Group of Five teams) not to be included in GameDay. If both both Cal and Miamii are undefeated when they play each other, it's Cal's turn to play on Gsmeday

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Need to include the argument that Cal is only one of six FBS teams (I think excluding Group of Five teams) not to be included in GameDay.

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Pretty sure ESPN is well aware that Cal has never hosted GameDay, but that factor has no weight with ESPN if Cal isn't good at football. Cal needs to prove it is good at football first.

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Need to include the argument that Cal is only one of six FBS teams (I think excluding Group of Five teams) not to be included in GameDay. If both both Cal and Miamii are undefeated when they play each other, it's Cal's turn to play on Gsmeday

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Well, that fact only adds to the hype of that weekend's Gameday, so I don't think it's an "argument" as much as it is a "plus."
Both undefeated does seem highly likely, but Vandy has only hosted once (16 years ago) so if you worry about SEC bias as a conspiracy theory (as plenty here do) then maybe not a lock if in fact Vandy is also undefeated.
But yeah, if Cal has beaten both Auburn and FSU on the road, then more than it "being their turn," I think it will have been earned.

All this FSU talk is bad karma imo. You would think we should know better sigh … I guess we have to learn fat meat is greasy

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All this FSU talk is bad karma imo. You would think we should know better sigh … I guess we have to learn fat meat is greasy

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I say face karma head on! Besides, being on Gameday or not hardly determines the success of a season....you tell me right now that Cal loses to FSU and Miami, then runs the table, and I say where do I sign up...

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I love how we're totally looking past San Diego State this week. Pretty awesome.

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Dude, we are not only looking past San Diego State, we are now taking as a given we beat Florida State in Tallahassee!

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And after we beat Miami on GameDay, it will be uncharted territory for us. We've been 5-0 before but never with all eyes on us.

Any thoughts on game time, as it's hard to make flight plans. Hoping that with bye, we would know two weeks out instead of one.

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I love how we're totally looking past San Diego State this week. Pretty awesome.

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agreed 2034, r u gonna be at memorial sat nite?

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no doubt, watch me do
everything, everywhere
all at once, all the time
all around the world

liked this wowser tweet from a few days ago, by "not fernando"..

What GameDay could look like at Cal pic.twitter.com/xAW1Uk56Cw

— Not Fernando (@hayden_smith88) September 10, 2024

Disagree. Michigan already has a huge, one-sided, loss.

If both Michigan (currently ranked 17) and UW win out, their Oct. 5 game in Seattle would definitely become our main competition for Gameday.

Root for WSU to beat UW today, and for USC to beat Michigan next week (Toejams should be slight favorites). The Mutts have NW at home and @Rutgers next two weeks, so if they get by the Cougs, they will probably be 5-0 and inside the top 20 for Michigan. And a Michigan win over SC puts them back near the top 10, and their game in Seattle takes on a whole different dimension.

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If both Michigan (currently ranked 17) and UW win out, their Oct. 5 game in Seattle would definitely become our main competition for Gameday.

Root for WSU to beat UW today, and for USC to beat Michigan next week (Toejams should be slight favorites). The Mutts have NW at home and @Rutgers next two weeks, so if they get by the Cougs, they will probably be 5-0 and inside the top 20 for Michigan. And a Michigan win over SC puts them back near the top 10, and their game in Seattle takes on a whole different dimension.

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Even if both are undefeated, I'm not sure gameday goes to Seattle cause they were just there last year for Oregon/washington. I could be wrong, but I don't think back to back visits happen to often, if ever.

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If both Michigan (currently ranked 17) and UW win out, their Oct. 5 game in Seattle would definitely become our main competition for Gameday.

Root for WSU to beat UW today, and for USC to beat Michigan next week (Toejams should be slight favorites). The Mutts have NW at home and @Rutgers next two weeks, so if they get by the Cougs, they will probably be 5-0 and inside the top 20 for Michigan. And a Michigan win over SC puts them back near the top 10, and their game in Seattle takes on a whole different dimension.

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Even if both are undefeated, I'm not sure gameday goes to Seattle cause they were just there last year for Oregon/washington. I could be wrong, but I don't think back to back visits happen to often, if ever.

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This is not correct. Teams will host multiple times in a single season let alone back to back season. This is obviously heavily weighted toward bluebloods, but Tuscaloosa hosted for Texas and LSU last year. Tennessee and Texas both hosted twice in 2022 for example. Georgia also in recent years. They give some consideration to this for sure, but money will dictate 9 times out of 10.

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Cal88 said:

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If both Michigan (currently ranked 17) and UW win out, their Oct. 5 game in Seattle would definitely become our main competition for Gameday.

Root for WSU to beat UW today, and for USC to beat Michigan next week (Toejams should be slight favorites). The Mutts have NW at home and @Rutgers next two weeks, so if they get by the Cougs, they will probably be 5-0 and inside the top 20 for Michigan. And a Michigan win over SC puts them back near the top 10, and their game in Seattle takes on a whole different dimension.

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Even if both are undefeated, I'm not sure gameday goes to Seattle cause they were just there last year for Oregon/washington. I could be wrong, but I don't think back to back visits happen to often, if ever.

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This did not sound true, so I looked it up and it's not.

-The first Gameday road show was 1993, FSU at Notre Dame. The SECOND Gameday road show was 1994, Michigan at Notre Dame.

-In 1994, the show went to Nebraska TWICE.

-In 1994 and 1995, the show went to Nebraska, Notre Dame, and Alabama each year.

-In 1995 and 1996, the show went to Colorado, Tennessee, Notre Dame, Florida State, Alabama.

At this point I decided to check more modern history.

In 2024 and 2023, Gameday went to South Carolina and Michigan.

-In 2023, the show went to Alabama twice, plus the SECCG.

In 2023 and 2022, the show went to Georgia, Ohio State, Texas twice each.

-In 2022, the show went to Tennessee twice in a 3 week span, and Texas twice.

-In 2021 and 2022, the show went to Ohio State, Texas, Georgia, Clemson twice each.

To put this in further perspective, the show didn't really start doing the road show every week until 1995. If you take out 2020, this is year 29. If they were avoiding locations in back to back seasons, you'd expect no more than 14-15 hosts for a school. But Ohio State is the leader with 23 times hosting. In 28 seasons!

Anyways, I think that is enough to show that they don't care about going some place two straight years, or even twice in a year.

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If both Michigan (currently ranked 17) and UW win out, their Oct. 5 game in Seattle would definitely become our main competition for Gameday.

Root for WSU to beat UW today, and for USC to beat Michigan next week (Toejams should be slight favorites). The Mutts have NW at home and @Rutgers next two weeks, so if they get by the Cougs, they will probably be 5-0 and inside the top 20 for Michigan. And a Michigan win over SC puts them back near the top 10, and their game in Seattle takes on a whole different dimension.

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That's fair...again, it's a new world for ESPN and not being a Big 10 rights holder, how does that play out...I don't think we know for sure, and though I appreciate some of the historical research, this is NEW!....
It's why I also mention the Vandy game, because we know how the SEC is valued...the other thing going for us is that Miami being undefeated is going to put them pretty high...

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If both Michigan (currently ranked 17) and UW win out, their Oct. 5 game in Seattle would definitely become our main competition for Gameday.

Root for WSU to beat UW today, and for USC to beat Michigan next week (Toejams should be slight favorites). The Mutts have NW at home and @Rutgers next two weeks, so if they get by the Cougs, they will probably be 5-0 and inside the top 20 for Michigan. And a Michigan win over SC puts them back near the top 10, and their game in Seattle takes on a whole different dimension.

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Even if both are undefeated, I'm not sure gameday goes to Seattle cause they were just there last year for Oregon/washington. I could be wrong, but I don't think back to back visits happen to often, if ever.

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This is not correct. Teams will host multiple times in a single season let alone back to back season. This is obviously heavily weighted toward bluebloods, but Tuscaloosa hosted for Texas and LSU last year. Tennessee and Texas both hosted twice in 2022 for example. Georgia also in recent years. They give some consideration to this for sure, but money will dictate 9 times out of 10.

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Thanks for the correction. That seems crazy to me, I feel like gameday starts losing relevancy if you start going to the same places every time. But I suppose you're right that money/tv dictate.

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ducky23 said:

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If both Michigan (currently ranked 17) and UW win out, their Oct. 5 game in Seattle would definitely become our main competition for Gameday.

Root for WSU to beat UW today, and for USC to beat Michigan next week (Toejams should be slight favorites). The Mutts have NW at home and @Rutgers next two weeks, so if they get by the Cougs, they will probably be 5-0 and inside the top 20 for Michigan. And a Michigan win over SC puts them back near the top 10, and their game in Seattle takes on a whole different dimension.

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Even if both are undefeated, I'm not sure gameday goes to Seattle cause they were just there last year for Oregon/washington. I could be wrong, but I don't think back to back visits happen to often, if ever.

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This is not correct. Teams will host multiple times in a single season let alone back to back season. This is obviously heavily weighted toward bluebloods, but Tuscaloosa hosted for Texas and LSU last year. Tennessee and Texas both hosted twice in 2022 for example. Georgia also in recent years. They give some consideration to this for sure, but money will dictate 9 times out of 10.

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Thanks for the correction. That seems crazy to me, I feel like gameday starts losing relevancy if you start going to the same places every time. But I suppose you're right that money/tv dictate.

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I don't think the GameDay location translates into any big revenue stream. It's programming and promotion in my opinion. I'm not discounting ratings ("programming") so to your point, does a repeat performance drive less eyeballs? Does showing up at Berkeley for the first time, gain a few people who will want to see how the Cal folks respond?

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If both Michigan (currently ranked 17) and UW win out, their Oct. 5 game in Seattle would definitely become our main competition for Gameday.

Root for WSU to beat UW today, and for USC to beat Michigan next week (Toejams should be slight favorites). The Mutts have NW at home and @Rutgers next two weeks, so if they get by the Cougs, they will probably be 5-0 and inside the top 20 for Michigan. And a Michigan win over SC puts them back near the top 10, and their game in Seattle takes on a whole different dimension.

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That's fair...again, it's a new world for ESPN and not being a Big 10 rights holder, how does that play out...I don't think we know for sure, and though I appreciate some of the historical research, this is NEW!....
It's why I also mention the Vandy game, because we know how the SEC is valued...the other thing going for us is that Miami being undefeated is going to put them pretty high...

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Vanderbilt is going to be a heavy underdog on the road against Missouri (currently #6) next week, their bubble will get deflated there.

Even if they manage that upset, they play Alabama on Oct. 5, and Gameday is going to be at #1 Georgia the week before for their game against Alabama, biggest regular season SEC game, rivalry game etc.

They might feature Alabama twice in the same season, but not back to back.

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ducky23 said:

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If both Michigan (currently ranked 17) and UW win out, their Oct. 5 game in Seattle would definitely become our main competition for Gameday.

Root for WSU to beat UW today, and for USC to beat Michigan next week (Toejams should be slight favorites). The Mutts have NW at home and @Rutgers next two weeks, so if they get by the Cougs, they will probably be 5-0 and inside the top 20 for Michigan. And a Michigan win over SC puts them back near the top 10, and their game in Seattle takes on a whole different dimension.

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Even if both are undefeated, I'm not sure gameday goes to Seattle cause they were just there last year for Oregon/washington. I could be wrong, but I don't think back to back visits happen to often, if ever.

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This is not correct. Teams will host multiple times in a single season let alone back to back season. This is obviously heavily weighted toward bluebloods, but Tuscaloosa hosted for Texas and LSU last year. Tennessee and Texas both hosted twice in 2022 for example. Georgia also in recent years. They give some consideration to this for sure, but money will dictate 9 times out of 10.

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Thanks for the correction. That seems crazy to me, I feel like gameday starts losing relevancy if you start going to the same places every time. But I suppose you're right that money/tv dictate.

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I don't think the GameDay location translates into any big revenue stream. It's programming and promotion in my opinion. I'm not discounting ratings ("programming") so to your point, does a repeat performance drive less eyeballs? Does showing up at Berkeley for the first time, gain a few people who will want to see how the Cal folks respond?

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I think the point sltx was originally making is that gameday location is at least in part dictated by trying to promote the game that will draw the best ratings (and not necessarily the location that will actually be the most interesting). So if ESPN thinks mich/UW game will draw the best ratings(for instance), that's the game they'll want to promote.

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mbBear said:

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ducky23 said:

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SLTX Bear said:

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ducky23 said:

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Cal88 said:

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If both Michigan (currently ranked 17) and UW win out, their Oct. 5 game in Seattle would definitely become our main competition for Gameday.

Root for WSU to beat UW today, and for USC to beat Michigan next week (Toejams should be slight favorites). The Mutts have NW at home and @Rutgers next two weeks, so if they get by the Cougs, they will probably be 5-0 and inside the top 20 for Michigan. And a Michigan win over SC puts them back near the top 10, and their game in Seattle takes on a whole different dimension.

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Even if both are undefeated, I'm not sure gameday goes to Seattle cause they were just there last year for Oregon/washington. I could be wrong, but I don't think back to back visits happen to often, if ever.

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This is not correct. Teams will host multiple times in a single season let alone back to back season. This is obviously heavily weighted toward bluebloods, but Tuscaloosa hosted for Texas and LSU last year. Tennessee and Texas both hosted twice in 2022 for example. Georgia also in recent years. They give some consideration to this for sure, but money will dictate 9 times out of 10.

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Thanks for the correction. That seems crazy to me, I feel like gameday starts losing relevancy if you start going to the same places every time. But I suppose you're right that money/tv dictate.

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I don't think the GameDay location translates into any big revenue stream. It's programming and promotion in my opinion. I'm not discounting ratings ("programming") so to your point, does a repeat performance drive less eyeballs? Does showing up at Berkeley for the first time, gain a few people who will want to see how the Cal folks respond?

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I think the point sltx was originally making is that gameday location is at least in part dictated by trying to promote the game that will draw the best ratings (and not necessarily the location that will actually be the most interesting). So if ESPN thinks mich/UW game will draw the best ratings, that's the game they'll want to promote.

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Though it may also factor in that it won't be their game.

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ducky23 said:

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SLTX Bear said:

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ducky23 said:

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If both Michigan (currently ranked 17) and UW win out, their Oct. 5 game in Seattle would definitely become our main competition for Gameday.

Root for WSU to beat UW today, and for USC to beat Michigan next week (Toejams should be slight favorites). The Mutts have NW at home and @Rutgers next two weeks, so if they get by the Cougs, they will probably be 5-0 and inside the top 20 for Michigan. And a Michigan win over SC puts them back near the top 10, and their game in Seattle takes on a whole different dimension.

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Even if both are undefeated, I'm not sure gameday goes to Seattle cause they were just there last year for Oregon/washington. I could be wrong, but I don't think back to back visits happen to often, if ever.

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This is not correct. Teams will host multiple times in a single season let alone back to back season. This is obviously heavily weighted toward bluebloods, but Tuscaloosa hosted for Texas and LSU last year. Tennessee and Texas both hosted twice in 2022 for example. Georgia also in recent years. They give some consideration to this for sure, but money will dictate 9 times out of 10.

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Thanks for the correction. That seems crazy to me, I feel like gameday starts losing relevancy if you start going to the same places every time. But I suppose you're right that money/tv dictate.

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I don't think the GameDay location translates into any big revenue stream. It's programming and promotion in my opinion. I'm not discounting ratings ("programming") so to your point, does a repeat performance drive less eyeballs? Does showing up at Berkeley for the first time, gain a few people who will want to see how the Cal folks respond?

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I think the point sltx was originally making is that gameday location is at least in part dictated by trying to promote the game that will draw the best ratings (and not necessarily the location that will actually be the most interesting). So if ESPN thinks mich/UW game will draw the best ratings(for instance), that's the game they'll want to promote.

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Michigan -Wisconsin will not be on ESPN.
This weekend represents the new world: GameDay was in Columbia, one team unranked, one team not even top 10.
In the past, Bama/Wisconsin would have been a more likely pick.
A conference Big 10 game is even less desirable IMO..

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If both Michigan (currently ranked 17) and UW win out, their Oct. 5 game in Seattle would definitely become our main competition for Gameday.

Root for WSU to beat UW today, and for USC to beat Michigan next week (Toejams should be slight favorites). The Mutts have NW at home and @Rutgers next two weeks, so if they get by the Cougs, they will probably be 5-0 and inside the top 20 for Michigan. And a Michigan win over SC puts them back near the top 10, and their game in Seattle takes on a whole different dimension.

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That's fair...again, it's a new world for ESPN and not being a Big 10 rights holder, how does that play out...I don't think we know for sure, and though I appreciate some of the historical research, this is NEW!....
It's why I also mention the Vandy game, because we know how the SEC is valued...the other thing going for us is that Miami being undefeated is going to put them pretty high...

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Vanderbilt is going to be a heavy underdog on the road against Missouri (currently #6) next week, their bubble will get deflated there.

Even if they manage that upset, they play Alabama on Oct. 5, and Gameday is going to be at #1 Georgia the week before for their game against Alabama, biggest regular season SEC game, rivalry game etc.

They might feature Alabama twice in the same season,
but not back to back.

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I agree about Vandy ... certainly was a worst case scenario. The Bama factor is interesting, because right, Georgia -Bama is a lock. Because of different locations, and the fact that it's Bama might give them a chance of back to back, but still think it's a good point.

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SLTX Bear said:

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ducky23 said:

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If both Michigan (currently ranked 17) and UW win out, their Oct. 5 game in Seattle would definitely become our main competition for Gameday.

Root for WSU to beat UW today, and for USC to beat Michigan next week (Toejams should be slight favorites). The Mutts have NW at home and @Rutgers next two weeks, so if they get by the Cougs, they will probably be 5-0 and inside the top 20 for Michigan. And a Michigan win over SC puts them back near the top 10, and their game in Seattle takes on a whole different dimension.

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Even if both are undefeated, I'm not sure gameday goes to Seattle cause they were just there last year for Oregon/washington. I could be wrong, but I don't think back to back visits happen to often, if ever.

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This is not correct. Teams will host multiple times in a single season let alone back to back season. This is obviously heavily weighted toward bluebloods, but Tuscaloosa hosted for Texas and LSU last year. Tennessee and Texas both hosted twice in 2022 for example. Georgia also in recent years. They give some consideration to this for sure, but money will dictate 9 times out of 10.

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Thanks for the correction. That seems crazy to me, I feel like gameday starts losing relevancy if you start going to the same places every time. But I suppose you're right that money/tv dictate.

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I don't think the GameDay location translates into any big revenue stream. It's programming and promotion in my opinion. I'm not discounting ratings ("programming") so to your point, does a repeat performance drive less eyeballs? Does showing up at Berkeley for the first time, gain a few people who will want to see how the Cal folks respond?

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I think the point sltx was originally making is that gameday location is at least in part dictated by trying to promote the game that will draw the best ratings (and not necessarily the location that will actually be the most interesting). So if ESPN thinks mich/UW game will draw the best ratings(for instance), that's the game they'll want to promote.

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Michigan -Wisconsin will not be on ESPN.
This weekend represents the new world: GameDay was in Columbia, one team unranked, one team not even top 10.
In the past, Bama/Wisconsin would have been a more likely pick.
A conference Big 10 game is even less desirable IMO..

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It's a very special B10 game though, a compelling post-realignment matchup.

The same can be said about our upcoming game vs Miami tough, that aspect also adds to the interest in that game, especially since it would feature two first-place teams in the conference race.

Optimist's thread title: stars aligning for College Gameday vs Miami

Negabear thread title: stars aligning for next Cal faceplant against their conference's lone winless laughingstock.

We need to get that one. After SDSU of course!

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If both Michigan (currently ranked 17) and UW win out, their Oct. 5 game in Seattle would definitely become our main competition for Gameday.

Root for WSU to beat UW today, and for USC to beat Michigan next week (Toejams should be slight favorites). The Mutts have NW at home and @Rutgers next two weeks, so if they get by the Cougs, they will probably be 5-0 and inside the top 20 for Michigan. And a Michigan win over SC puts them back near the top 10, and their game in Seattle takes on a whole different dimension.

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That's fair...again, it's a new world for ESPN and not being a Big 10 rights holder, how does that play out...I don't think we know for sure, and though I appreciate some of the historical research, this is NEW!....
It's why I also mention the Vandy game, because we know how the SEC is valued...the other thing going for us is that Miami being undefeated is going to put them pretty high...

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Vanderbilt is going to be a heavy underdog on the road against Missouri (currently #6) next week, their bubble will get deflated there.

Even if they manage that upset, they play Alabama on Oct. 5, and Gameday is going to be at #1 Georgia the week before for their game against Alabama, biggest regular season SEC game, rivalry game etc.

They might feature Alabama twice in the same season, but not
back to back.

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I'm embarrassed for even bringing up Vandy... Washington St helping the discussion if that was even a factor...

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mbBear said:

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If both Michigan (currently ranked 17) and UW win out, their Oct. 5 game in Seattle would definitely become our main competition for Gameday.

Root for WSU to beat UW today, and for USC to beat Michigan next week (Toejams should be slight favorites). The Mutts have NW at home and @Rutgers next two weeks, so if they get by the Cougs, they will probably be 5-0 and inside the top 20 for Michigan. And a Michigan win over SC puts them back near the top 10, and their game in Seattle takes on a whole different dimension.

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That's fair...again, it's a new world for ESPN and not being a Big 10 rights holder, how does that play out...I don't think we know for sure, and though I appreciate some of the historical research, this is NEW!....
It's why I also mention the Vandy game, because we know how the SEC is valued...the other thing going for us is that Miami being undefeated is going to put them pretty high...

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Vanderbilt is going to be a heavy underdog on the road against Missouri (currently #6) next week, their bubble will get deflated there.

Even if they manage that upset, they play Alabama on Oct. 5, and Gameday is going to be at #1 Georgia the week before for their game against Alabama, biggest regular season SEC game, rivalry game etc.

They might feature Alabama twice in the same season, but not
back to back.

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I'm embarrassed for even bringing up Vandy... Washington St helping the discussion if that was even a factor...

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I Love Vandy....Go underdogs....Tuff evening for them though

Does anyone else think that playing the first ACC game with FSU and then this silly mention of Game Day might have led the Bears to play so poorly against a very fired up SDSU team? Diehard Bear fans (like me) have been so desperate for so long, we often lapse into these delusional dreams. Let's just beat FSU.

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Does anyone else think that playing the first ACC game with FSU and then this silly mention of Game Day might have led the Bears to play so poorly against a very fired up SDSU team? Diehard Bear fans (like me) have been so desperate for so long, we often lapse into these delusional dreams. Let's just beat FSU.

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Nah, remember it was a trap game and after being warned the players fell into the trap in the first half..Took a while but they woke up and did a very nice second half.

Add to that all the pre season prognosticators on this board---FSU was unwinnable; we will be lucky to be 2-2 after the first four; maybe we can beat Miami at home; 7 wins probable, 8 would be great..........All appear wrong now and my point is you don't play the games on paper in the pre season. Stuff happens.

It's funny how towards the end of the game the commentators brought up Gameday for Miami, saying that a win at FSU would set it up, also mentioning that GD was never at Cal for FB. They're in the broader social media loop associated with this board.

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It's funny how towards the end of the game the commentators brought up Gameday for Miami, saying that a win at FSU would set it up, also mentioning that GD was never at Cal for FB. They're in the broader social media loop associated with this board.

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I felt like I was listening to Bearister and GoBears49 having a conversation.