ESPN’s College Gameday was live from Eugene, Oregon on Saturday for a top ten matchup between Indiana and Oregon. Here’s our recap from pregame for what may be the biggest week of the college football season so far.
Injury Updates for several key players
With the introduction of the availability report each week for SEC games, Pete Thamel now has a weekly segment on Gameday with the latest updates. This week there were two headliners for SEC games with LSU WR Aaron Anderson and Oklahoma QB John Mateer.
Anderson was listed as doubtful in the latest injury report and is likely to miss Saturday’s game against South Carolina. Sophomore WR Kyle Parker is expected to play in his place. Oklahoma quarterback John Mateer was upgraded to probable for Saturday’s game against Texas all indications are that he will be a go against the Longhorns.
Everyone got naked…kinda
Pat McAfee continues to bring a ridiculous level of energy to the show no matter what time zone the show is in. This week it took all of four minutes for McAfee to get on top of a chair and start singing “Shout” at the top of his lungs in unison with the audience.
Later Oregon head coach Dan Lanning joined the broadcast and took his shirt off along with McAfee to pump the crowd. Even the duck got in on the action of taking it off.
The Duck being naked was the funniest part of Gameday for sure 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/c6V0LxblQV
— Chris Marler (@Vern_Funquist) October 11, 2025
Herbie’s Road Trip
Kirk Herbstreit had to leave the broadcast early because he is on the call for Oklahoma-Texas in Dallas Saturday afternoon. What ESPN could’ve done is just continued to do the show with the other four hosts. But, where’s the fun, or logic, in that.
ESPN cameras followed Herbstreit from the moment he walked off the Gameday set where he hopped on the back of a motorcycle being driven by the Oregon Duck mascot. They then traveled next to him as he froze in the back of a top down Jeep driving to the airport, and somehow continued on despite the most unstable wifi signal imaginable from 30,000 feet up.
This is the second year in a row they’ve done this. It was just as awful the second time around.
At least Peter is enjoying himself 🥶#CollegeGameDay pic.twitter.com/OXFZhOfs2g
— Kirk Herbstreit (@KirkHerbstreit) October 11, 2025
Our favorite signs from Eugene
“Fire Brian Callahan Please” sign at College Gameday is elite content 🤣#TitanUp pic.twitter.com/IyVnBjfCtM
— brandie (@brandieeemac) October 11, 2025
Chad Powers approved ✅ pic.twitter.com/zBu0T9Bbex
— College GameDay (@CollegeGameDay) October 11, 2025
Oregon mascot with an “OKC in 7” sign at College GameDay pic.twitter.com/51fJ8miNcN
— Clemente Almanza (@CAlmanza1007) October 11, 2025
Not the Scarface Dan Lanning sign at College Gameday 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/QZitJHXmIG
— Chris Marler (@Vern_Funquist) October 11, 2025
Just watch this segment for the Oregon Duck’s signs.
“Just let me be a seat filler at the ESPYs already”
“The moon is made of cheese”
“Where is this Gary guy from Indiana”
“Even Andrew Luck left Indiana” pic.twitter.com/i9qkSu5PTB— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) October 11, 2025
