“College GameDay” headed to Pittsburgh for the third time to highlight 2025 college football matchup between Notre Dame and Pitt

(Credit for Photo: Courtesy of Nathan Giese/ Avalanche-Journal/ Nathan Giese/ Avalanche-Journal/ USA TODAY NETWORK Via Imagn Images, Caption for Photo: ESPN personality Pat McAfee talks during College GameDay as Nick Saban looks on, Saturday, Nov. 8, 2025 at Jones AT&T Stadium.)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) The flagship college football pregame show on ESPN, “College GameDay,” will be at the North Shore on Saturday, November 15th, 2025 to highlight the game at Acrisure Stadium that afternoon between #9 Notre Dame and #23 Pitt from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. outside Acrisure Stadium and from 11 a.m. to noon inside Acrisure Stadium until the game begins at noon. “College GameDay” gets you ready for the weekend of college football matchups on Saturdays during its season, and the show is making its third appearance in the Steel City after previously showing up there in 2022 and in 2005. 2005 was also the year that “College GameDay” highlighted a game between the same teams in Pittsburgh that year as it will this year, as Notre Dame defeated Pitt 42-21 at Heinz Field on September 3rd, 2005. A 2022 edition of “College GameDay” in Pittsburgh highlighted the return of the “Backyard Brawl” game for the first time since 2011, where Pitt defeated West Virginia 38-31 at Acrisure Stadium on September 1st, 2022. “College GameDay” features a cast of host, Rece Davis, along with analysts: 1991 Heisman Trophy winner and former NFL and University of Michigan wide receiver, Desmond Howard, former Ohio State quarterback, Kirk Herbstreit, former University of Alabama college football coach, Nick Saban and former Indianapolis Colts punter, former West Virginia University placekicker and the host of “The Pat Mcafee Show,” Pittsburgh native Pat McAfee; as well as Pete Thamel, its college football insider, reporters Jen Lada and Jess Sims and its college football betting analyst, “Stanford Steve” Coughlin.