This one really sums up my thoughts/disinterest with GameDay, which used to be appointment TV to me. Week two was their fourth trip to Austin in the past five seasons. This Saturday will be their fourth trip to Knoxville in the past five seasons. They're going to familiar/uninteresting places and the bigger issue is that they're chasing the "biggest game" instead of the best storyline. The one time I tuned into Gameday this season was to see the Ole Miss crowd welcoming back Lane Kiffin. It was something I had to see on Gameday, because I could only get that atmosphere in Oxford. You can talk about a great game anywhere, but to feel a storyline come to life has to be boots on the ground... And the best storyline in college football this weekend isn't an untested Tennessee team hosting #1 Texas... It's (arguably) the two best G6 teams in the country going at it this weekend in Kalamazoo with massive CFP implications. It's Mississippi State with a homegrown future NFL quarterback being ranked for the first time since Mike Leach passed. It's West Virginia knocking off Virginia and being 3-0 for the first time since 2018, hosting an OK State team that pulled off one of the biggest upsets of the season so far. Instead Gameday will be in... Knoxville... Where the crew will spend most of the show talking about how great the SEC is, in front of a crowd that being a part of Gameday is on annual occasion. Ask someone who has lived with Gameday the past 20 years what their favorite episode was... They'll probably say it was the one in Fargo, or Pullman, or Harrisonburg, or maybe in Boone... They won't say Tuscaloosa or Austin though. I can bet you that.