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ESPN’s ‘College GameDay’ picks Week 0 games plus College Football Playoff picks and more

GameDay goes big with their selections prior to the year starting

College football finally begins for [autotag]Notre Dame[/autotag] and that means the return of ESPN’s “College GameDay.”

The show hasn’t changed, but the panelists have, and it will be without [autotag]Lee Corso[/autotag] at least for the first week. [autotag]Reece Davis[/autotag] is back as the host with [autotag]Desmond Howard[/autotag], [autotag]Kirk Herbstreit[/autotag] and [autotag]Pat McAfee[/autotag] rounding out the analysts.

With a smaller slate of games this week, they had more time to make some bigger picture selections.

The three selected their Week 0 winners, conference champions along with who they believe will make the [autotag]College Football Playoff[/autotag] along with their winner this year. Check out their picks below.

ESPN’s College GameDay crew weighs in on No. 9 Oregon vs. No. 10 UCLA

Does winner of Oregon vs. UCLA go to the CFP? What helped turn Bo Nix’s career around? ESPN’s Rece Davis and David Pollack weighed in.

The eyes of the college football world will be fixed on Eugene this weekend as the No. 9 Oregon Ducks get set to host the No. 10 UCLA Bruins in a top-10 Pac-12 matchup that will go a long way in determining the power balance out west, and could potentially play a role in the College Football Playoff, as well.

In order to properly set the stage for this matchup, ESPN sent their flagship show, College GameDay, to Eugene to give the right publicity to the game.

While the set is going up on Oregon’s campus media members were allowed the opportunity to speak to some of the members of the show and get a feel for their early thoughts on the matchup. Here are some of the best quotes that we got on Friday:

Best of ESPN’s College Gameday from Notre Dame vs. Wisconsin

This looked like a lot of fun, relive it here!

A neutral site for ESPN’s pregame show, College Game Day, is a central point between the two schools, the Windy City and Soldier Field. Wisconsin and Notre Dame face off in a Top-25 matchup and the hype was real. Check out below some of the best Tweets from the broadcast and the sign’s made by the fans.