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College GameDay at Site of Big Ten Championship in Indianapolis

Photo of Rachel Margolis Siegal Rachel Margolis Siegal Follow on Twitter November 29, 2016
Indianapolis, IN - December 5, 2015 - Pan Am Plaza: David Pollack, Desmond Howard, Rece Davis, Lee Corso and Kirk Herbstreit on the set of College GameDay Built by the Home Depot during coverage of the 2015 Big Ten Championship game

 

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Third Time in Four Years in Indy

ESPN’s College GameDay Built by The Home Depot – college football’s longest-running and most-celebrated pregame show – will make its third appearance in four years from Pan Am Plaza in Indianapolis for the Big Ten Championship on Saturday, Dec. 3. The weekly show airs from 9 a.m.-noon on ESPN and is in advance of the title matchup showcasing No. 6 Wisconsin vs. No. 7 Penn State.

The six-time Emmy Award-winning show is hosted by Rece Davis, who is joined by analysts Lee Corso, Kirk Herbstreit, Desmond Howard and David Pollack, as well as contributors Chris ‘The Bear’ Fallica, Jen Lada, Samantha Ponder, Tom Rinaldi, George Whitfield and Gene Wojciechowski.

College Football Live will air from the set on Friday with Ponder, Howard and Pollack (1:30 p.m., ESPN). Jeannine Edwards will be onsite reporting for SportsCenter.

Corso Facts:
Corso began making his entertaining end-of-show headgear pick of the team he thinks will win the game at the GameDay site, marking 20 years this season. Week 14 will be headgear number 289 for Corso, as he is 191-97 all-time in headgear picks. The phenomenon began on October 5, 1996, prior to the Ohio State-Penn State game in Columbus, Ohio, when he put on OSU’s “Brutus Buckeye” mascot head to show his pick to win the game – watch here.

  • He has picked Wisconsin four times, including in the 2010 upset win over Ohio State in Madison. He is 2-2 when picking the Badgers and has picked against the Badgers eight times going 5-3 in those picks.
  • He has picked Penn State three times and is 2-1 when picking the Lions. He has picked against Penn State ten times and is 8-2 when picking against the Lions.

‘The Bear’ College GameDay Fun Facts:

  • This is the third time GameDay has been to the Big Ten Championship – was also in Indianapolis last year and in 2013.
  • This is the third time this season GameDay has been at the site of a Wisconsin game – and the 15th time overall. The Badgers are 5-9 with the show present.
  • This is also the 15th time GameDay has been at the site of a Penn State game – and the first time since November 13, 2010. Penn State is also 5-9 with GameDay

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Photo of Rachel Margolis Siegal Rachel Margolis Siegal Follow on Twitter November 29, 2016
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Rachel Margolis Siegal

A part of the Internal Communications team at ESPN, I began with the network in 2010 as part of the College Sports PR team. Always an avid sports fan and not an athlete – I grew up a huge fan of the Hartford Whalers, while also watching my brother compete at different levels. I became the manager of several high school sports teams and continued that hobby into college. While at Quinnipiac, I worked in the Sports Information Department, which led me to a summer internship at the New Haven Ravens, a AA baseball team, and an eventual job with the Athletic Communications Department at the University of Connecticut. After my five-year stint at Connecticut, I spent six years as Director of Communications at the BIG EAST Conference in Providence, R.I. before joining ESPN.
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