'College GameDay' announces guest picker, location for Halloween show - UGA Wire
ESPN's "College GameDay" has announced that NBA legend Isiah Thomas, who is most well-known for winning back-to-back NBA championships with the Detroit Pistons in 1989 and 1990. Thomas will be returning to Indiana, where he wont the 1981 national championship with the Indiana Hoosiers.
On Saturday, Oct. 31 GameDay is attending the Minnesota Gophers at Indiana Hoosiers game. GameDay picked Minnesota-Indiana over other top Week 9 games including Georgia versus Florida and Cincinnati versus Utah.
The Indiana game will be GameDay's first time in Bloomington, Indiana, since the Hoosiers won the national championship. GameDay notably snubbed the Ohio State-Indiana game a couple of weeks ago. GameDay will be set up at Showalter Fountain on Indiana's campus.
GameDay is returning to the Big Ten for just the second time this season. GameDay's only previous other time attending a Big Ten campus in 2026 was for the Iowa versus Ohio State game. GameDay was in town for Ohio State's comfortable road win in Iowa City.
GameDay will be televised on ESPN and ESPNU from 9 a.m. ET to noon. Kirk Herbstreit, Rece Davis, former Alabama coach Nick Saban, Pat McAfee, Desmond Howard, Pete Thamel and more will provide extensive college football coverage and analysis before Saturday's action. It will be interesting to see who dresses up for Halloween on GameDay's show.
"Isiah Thomas is returning to Bloomington as this week's guest picker!" GameDay said via social media.
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