College GameDay Schedule, Locations, & Predictions For 2024

Over 37 years, ESPN’s College GameDay has grown from a little-known in-studio cable TV show into a multimedia behemoth that routinely attracts more than two million viewers each week.

Which college football games will Rece Davis, Kirk Herbstreit, Lee Corso, and the rest of the GameDay crew visit in 2024?

College GameDay Schedule

Week 0: Georgia Tech vs. Florida State

Confirmed Location: Dublin

Four years after College GameDay’s first international broadcast was canceled — for Notre Dame vs. Navy in Dublin — the show will make its international debut.

The location was announced last December, locking in the first show outside the United States with Florida State’s first appearance since 2020.

Week 1: Notre Dame at Texas A&M

Confirmed Location: College Station

ESPN passed on Georgia-Clemson, Eastern Michigan-UMass, and other blockbuster Week 1 matchups for a prime-time game in College Station.

Texas A&M’s second home game against Notre Dame will be their first home game with GameDay since September 2018. For the Irish, they’re now guaranteed to make at least one GameDay appearance for the eighth straight season.

College GameDay Predictions: Potential Sites For 2024

Week 2: Colorado at Nebraska

Prepare for another year of Deion hype in Boulder.

To head off another potential in-season collapse, ESPN may move to feature Colorado in a GameDay spot early in the year. There are far worse choices than the rivalry game against Nebraska, which carries with it about 40 years of memorable, high-stakes contests. 

Week 3: West Virginia at Pittsburgh

GameDay spotlighted the Backyard Brawl back in 2022, when the rivalry reignited in a Week 1 game on Thursday night. 

This year, the Brawl could get the full Saturday treatment for the first time ever – how is that even possible?! – with few other compelling games lined up for Week 3. 

For a different option, the GameDay crew could head out to Oregon/Oregon State or Washington/Washington State to highlight the new status of old Pac-12 North rivalries.

Week 4: Georgia at Alabama

Your mileage may vary on the actual importance of this game in the full context of the season. With the departure of Nick Saban, Alabama may experience a competitive dip in Year 1 of the Kalen DeBoer era – especially in an expanded SEC. 

There are likely more critical games elsewhere nationally, like Utah at Oklahoma State.

That said, it’s unlikely that the spectacle of GameDay could ignore a regular-season showdown between two of the top programs from the last decade of college football. The new status of the SEC and the expanded postseason will add new layers to the game. 

Week 5: Liberty at Appalachian State

Liberty will enter the 2024 season as one of the most controversial teams in FBS. The Flames coasted to an easy undefeated record in 2023, only to be blasted by Oregon in the Fiesta Bowl.

Conference USA didn’t get any tougher in the offseason, which means Liberty’s trip to Boone might be the only real resistance between the Flames and another 13-0 finish. 

We know GameDay likes to highlight non-P5 football. We also know App State puts on a good show and knows how to win – whether it’s supposed to or not. (Just ask JMU fans.)

Week 6: Michigan at Washington

Neither program is what it was last year, but there will still be plenty of new coaches and fun storylines to discuss in an October rematch of last year’s national championship game. 

Week 7: Ohio State at Oregon

They don’t get much bigger than this one. The winner of this high-stakes game in Eugene will have an inside track to the Big Ten championship game. Probably a first-round playoff bye, too.

Week 8: Georgia at Texas

GameDay will certainly plan to camp out for this new SEC showdown, which could arguably be the most heavily anticipated game of the 2024 regular season. 

Week 9: Kansas at Kansas State

With Chris Klieman’s Wildcats pegged as a conference co-favorite for 2024, and Jalon Daniels healthy again for Kansas, this Big 12 rivalry game could very well be a Big 12 championship elimination game. 

Week 10: Kentucky at Tennessee

Week 10 is where some of the options start to get dicey; accordingly, GameDay fans should be on FCS alert. 

Personally, I think Rece and the crew will head back to SEC country to feature an old east-division border rivalry. 

Week 11: BYU at Utah

The Holy War has been one of the most intense rivalries in college football for years. This year, it carries with it the added weight of a conference race, and Utah is expected to be in the thick of the Big 12 title race.

Week 12: Princeton at Yale

GameDay finds an FCS game to feature almost annually, and it’s been 10 years since the program featured the Ancient Eight. 

Princeton and Yale have been two of the most consistent Ivy teams over the last few years, so a stretch-run game in an otherwise light week seems like an opportune time for Yale’s first-ever host week. 

Week 13: Boise State at Wyoming

Even by G5 standards, the Mountain West has been historically underrepresented on GameDay – I had to go back to 2010 just to find anything resembling a MWC team. That was the famous Week 4 matchup between Oregon State and Boise State; at the time, the Broncos were a member of the WAC. They moved to the Mountain West for the following season.

But the Mountain West may be on the way to better representation in the coming years for a couple of reasons. One is that former Pac-12 schools Oregon State and Washington State are now in the conference. Another is that the playoff’s guaranteed G5 berth gives conferences like the MWC an institutional legitimacy they might not otherwise have.

In other words, we should be on the lookout for potential Mountain West GameDay spots. A trip to Laramie would be a lot of fun – especially in a light week with few other obvious choices. 

Week 14: Texas at Texas A&M

GameDay has no qualms about visiting the same campus twice in one year; it did it as recently as 2023, when it went to Tuscaloosa for games against both LSU and Texas. 

For the final week of the season before conference championship games, I suspect GameDay will return to College Station – its confirmed Week 1 location – for the first game between the Aggies and Longhorns since 2011. 

Not only is it a reignited rivalry game, but it may also carry steep implications for the SEC Championship Game the following week.