College GameDay Quiz: Day 5
ESPN’s College GameDay Built by The Home Depot will return for its 25th season Saturday.
The show will air live from the neutral site of the Cowboys Classic at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, beginning at 9 a.m. ET on ESPNU and from 10-noon on ESPN. The College GameDay set will be located outside the state-of-the art facility in Lot 3.
In a much anticipated opening weekend game, Oregon will face LSU in the Classic as part of the weekly Saturday Night Football Presented by Southwest Airlines series at 8 p.m. on ABC.
In commemoration of the show’s 25th year, we’ve produced 25 related trivia questions.
We’ll reveal five questions a day on Front Row in the countdown to Saturday.
The answers to Day 4’s quiz and today’s quiz (which starts below) are at the bottom of this post.
The percentages only reflect how people taking the quiz answered that question.
[polldaddy poll=5472419] [polldaddy poll=5472424] [polldaddy poll=5472427] [polldaddy poll=5472435] [polldaddy poll=5472440]Answers to Day 4’s quiz:
1) Coach Corso has selected USC 15 times – and is a perfect 15-0 when picking the Trojans dating back to the Rose Bowl on January 1, 2004
2) GameDay has appeared 19 times, including the game which determines the national champion every year since 1995
3) Florida has been ranked No. 1 or No. 2 on six occasions when the College GameDay crew was in town
4) GameDay is partial to SEC homes games, visiting 57 times, 17 more than the next closest conference – the Big 10
5) ESPN utilizes an altered version of the song – Comin’ to Your City as the opening theme for GameDay
Answers to today’s quiz:
1) USC has a record of 6-1 – holding the best percentage among all programs when hosting GameDay
2) Alabama has lost six home games when GameDay comes to town, the most of any host school; of its 19 appearances (home/away/neutral) – Alabama is 10-9
3) Big & Rich – the American country music duo composed of Big Kenny and John Rich have featured the opening music for Gameday since 2005
4) Coach is most known for saying “Not so fast my friend” when trying to make a point with his fellow GameDay crew
5) 68 programs have been part of GameDay
