Is Fox Trying to Compete with College GameDay Crazy Enough to Work?

Fox has lined up Urban Meyer, Rob Stone, Reggie Bush, Brady Quinn, and Matt Leinart, per The New York Post. The fivesome could be put on television at 11 a.m. Saturdays to preview the college football activity of the working day, up against one of the most revered and successful boasts programs of the last 25 years.

Questions remain.

Why? Who is this for? Does it have any probability of supplanting?

I certainly don’t have all the answers. But the easiest one is definitely “why.” Because it’s football and the appetite for football-related content is insatiable. GameDay has departed unchallenged for so long that no one absolutely knows how it would do against a meaningful, serious competitor.

It’s only logical for Fox to try something different, structurally. Trying to out-GameDay the original would be a suicide goal. So perhaps the burgeoning project would do well to follow the script of the network’s NFL pregame show.

Specifically, leveraging the premiere noon recreation into better lead-up ratings. Aria into ESPN on Saturday morning is habitual demeanor, but so too is putting the path to where it needs to be come kickoff.

In the past, ESPN’s been so confident in GameDay’s position that it’s formed SEC Nation to run against it. The opinion there is a consultation focus. People who care very much about their recreation or rival’s recreation may be inclined to seek more neighbourhood programme. The same theme drives Big Ten Network’s Saturday morning fare.

Knowing what we know now, consider me quite skeptical any substantiate can come along and ding the king. That is an extremely lofty destination. If success is defined as doing better in the 11 -1 2 a.m. window than last year, that’s one thing. And putting the testify on system will give it at least a fighting chance.

Per Marchand’s report, most of the occurrences would take place in a Los Angeles studio, with on-site visits reserved for big-hearted matchups. One would guess that includes Ohio State-Michigan.

If construed through, development projects would cut into ESPN’s percentage. How much would be regarded a success?

On paper, this seems like a grand objective. Then again, sometimes people need to try things to see if they succeed. I have a hard time picturing huge amounts of viewers becoming the button , no matter how good Urban Meyer is on television.