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ESPN College GameDay Basketball Schedule: FSU Vs. UNC Tips Off Eighth Season

The official schedule for ESPN’s College GameDay has been released. The show tips-off in Tallahassee, as the Florida State Seminoles host the North Carolina Tarheels on January 14th.

College basketball’s version of ESPN College GameDay is back, and could be coming to a school near you. The network officially announced the eight-game schedule for its flagship college basketball program late Thursday afternoon.

Heading into its eighth season, College GameDay traditionally hosts some of the biggest games of the NCAA men’s basketball season, traveling to universities and documenting all of the game day festivities. Host Rece Davis leads the panel, alongside analysts Jay Bilas, Digger Phelps, Hubert Davis, and Bob Knight.

The show tips-off in Tallahassee, as the Florida State Seminoles host the North Carolina Tarheels on January 14th. The College GameDay set will also visit Pittsburgh, Arizona, and Connecticut, among others throughout the year.

Director of ESPN programming and acquisitions, Nick Dawson, believes the program created the most compelling schedule possible.

This GameDay/Saturday Primetime schedule reflects our desire to offer viewers both the best possible conference matchups that hopefully have title implications, and the most exciting venues with the most passionate fans from which to televise GameDay.

The complete College Gameday schedule:

January 14: North Carolina at Florida State
January 21: Louisville at Pittsburgh
January 28: Washington at Arizona
February 4: Kansas at Missouri
February 11: Kentucky at Vanderbilt
February 18: Ohio State at Michigan
February 25: Syracuse at Connecticut
March 3: North Carolina at Duke (or) Texas at Kansas

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