DUBLIN — For the first time in its nearly 40 years of existence, ESPN’s College GameDay will broadcast live from outside the United States. The college football pregame show airing on ESPN landed in Dublin this week and has set up shop at Merrion Square where it will breakdown Saturday’s contest between Georgia Tech and Florida State.
Saturday’s show airs from 9 a.m. to noon leading into kickoff of the season-opener for the Yellow Jackets and Seminoles.
“We feel the responsibility every week because this show, throughout its entire history, has become such a part of the fabric of college football,” GameDay host Rece Davis said Friday at the Alex Hotel in Dublin. “It’s important to the fans and we bear a responsibility for that. Bringing it to Ireland, bringing it to another country for the first time, we want to inform, but you want to entertain and engage and give them a show that is worthy of them and that is worthy of the standard that the show has set. We’re fired up about it.”