Espn Announces 'college Gameday' Celebrity Guest Picker For Vanderbilt Visit

Vanderbilt is hosting College GameDay for nan first clip successful 17 years Saturday, and it's celebrating by summoning its astir salient celebrated instrumentality arsenic a personage impermanent picker.

Comedian Nate Bargatze will make selections alongside nan show's accustomed sheet Saturday morning, College GameDay announced Thursday afternoon. It will people nan 2nd quality connected nan show for Bargatze, who lent his talents earlier Alabama's crippled against LSU successful 2023.

Bargatze, 46, was calved and raised successful and astir Nashville. His mother worked successful nan Commodores' summons office, while his 2nd relative played hoops and shot for Belmont earlier moving arsenic a Vanderbilt adjunct men's hoops coach.

The comedian has ne'er been awkward astir his Commodores fandom, shouting retired Vanderbilt connected Saturday Night Live after its upset triumph complete Alabama successful 2024.

"Vanderbilt does Vanderbilt things successful a very Vanderbilt way," Bargatze told Simon Gibbs of The Hustler, nan school's newspaper, successful 2020. "The bully point astir rooting for Vandy is there’s truthful overmuch worldly you person to spell done that you study a lot. You’re not winning championships unless it’s shot aliases nan powerhouse women’s bowling team. It’s ever these different things. You ne'er do it successful nan accepted way."

The Commodores, classed successful nan Top 10 for nan first clip since 1947 and sporting a imaginable Heisman Trophy candidate astatine backmost successful Diego Pavia, play Missouri Saturday.

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