- ESPN’s College Gameday will broadcast live from the University of Florida’s O’Connell Center on March 1st.
- The show will lead into the Gators’ matchup against the Texas A&M Aggies, the second-highest ranked opponent to visit Gainesville this season.
- This marks the sixth time College Gameday has visited Gainesville for basketball, with the Gators holding a 4-1 record in the previous five matchups.
- Doors open for students at 8:30 a.m. and the general public at 8:45 a.m., with the show airing on ESPN from 10 a.m. to noon.
Set your alarms, Gators fans!
College Gameday is coming to Gainesville.
ESPN announced Saturday morning that the premiere college basketball pregame show will head to the O’Connell Center March 1 for the Florida basketball home game vs. Texas A&M.
The Aggies will be the second-highest ranked opponent to visit the O’Dome this season, after then-No. 1 Tennessee on January 7. TAMU currently ranks No. 7 in the USA Today Coaches Poll, but could move down after falling to No. 21 Mississippi State on Tuesday.
The No. 2 Gators are on a five-game SEC win streak, their longest since 2019. Prior to the visit from the Aggies, UF travels to two teams in the lower half of the SEC standings — LSU and Georgia.
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Texas A&M hosts No. 6 Tennessee at noon Saturday and Vanderbilt Tuesday.
For basketball, the show has been to Gainesville five times since it began traveling in 2005. It came to the O’Connell Center in 2006, 2008, 2011, 2015 and 2017. All five matchups were against Kentucky.
In those five games, Florida is 4-1. Texas A&M last appeared on Gameday in 2022, when it lost at Auburn.
Saturday’s game vs. the Aggies begins a critical three-game stretch for the Gators. They venture to Tuscaloosa on March 5 for No. 4 Alabama and receiving votes Ole Miss at home on March 8.
The show begins at 10 a.m. and will air through noon on ESPN.
Doors will open to UF students at 8:30 a.m. at Gate 3 of the O’Connell Center and doors will open to the general public at 8:45 a.m. at Gate 1.
The arena will then be cleared at the conclusion of College Gameday before gates reopen at 7:30 p.m. for an 8:30 p.m. tipoff between Florida and Texas A&M.
Noah Ram covers Gainesville-area high school sports and University of Florida athletics for The Gainesville Sun, GatorSports.com and the USA TODAY Network. Contact him by email at Nram@gannett.com and follow him @Noah_ram1 on X/Twitter.
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