ESPN’s iconic College Football GameDay pregame show is returning to Bloomington this weekend when IU football hosts Minnesota.
The network announced the news on its social media channels Sunday morning.
GET READY, BLOOMINGTON‼️
We’re coming to your city to see the defending champ Hoosiers against the upset-minded Gophers 🙌 https://t.co/JvlMz7IL7m
— College GameDay (@CollegeGameDay) October 25, 2026
The game will mark the second time the ESPN crew descended on Bloomington for a full edition of the GameDay program. They were also at IU in 2024 when the Hoosiers defeated Washington. ESPN also aired an abbreviated Thursday edition of GameDay from IU in 2017 when the Hoosiers hosted Ohio State to open the season.
It will be the fourth straight week IU is featured on a national pregame show. The FOX Big Noon Kickoff crew was on site for each of Indiana’s last three games.
IU has been a regular part of GameDay over the last three years.
In addition to the 2024 Washington game, the show was on location for their 2024 games at Ohio State and Notre Dame, their 2025 game at Oregon, and their 2025 College Football Playoff games against Alabama, Oregon and Miami.
Rece Davis returns as host of College GameDay and is joined at the desk by analysts Kirk Herbstreit, Desmond Howard, Pat McAfee and Nick Saban. College football insider Pete Thamel, college football analyst “Stanford Steve” Coughlin and reporters Jen Lada and Jess Sims round out the College GameDay cast for the 2026 college football season.
College GameDay airs at 9 AM ET – Noon ET on ESPN and ESPNU. The show is likely to be set up outside IU’s South End Zone.
We’ll have more details on the show later in the week.
Indiana and Minnesota kick at 3:30 p.m. ET (CBS).
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