MORGANTOWN — ESPN’s College GameDay is making two stops during the opening week of the college football season, with the first being in Pittsburgh for the Backyard Brawl game between Pitt and WVU, the network announced Thursday.
The ESPN crew will visit Acrisure Stadium with the live TV broadcast beginning at 6 p.m. ahead of the 7 p.m. scheduled kickoff, and will rejoin the telecast at halftime.
ESPN will also televise the first WVU-Pitt game since 2011.
College GameDay will then travel to Columbus, Ohio two days later for the Ohio State-Notre Dame game.
College GameDay is hosted by Rece Davis and he is joined by analysts Lee Corso, Kirk Herbstreit, Desmond Howard and David Pollack.
The show will be making its 422nd road broadcast, including the fifth that will include WVU.
The Mountaineers hosted the show in 2011 (LSU) and 2014 (TCU), and have been the road opponent at the 2012 Orange Bowl and in 2017 at TCU.
WVU is 1-3 in those games, with the victory coming in the Orange Bowl, a 70-33 victory against Clemson.
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