How has Auburn basketball fared when ESPN’s ‘College GameDay’ comes to town? Full history
The nation has undeniably taken notice of Auburn basketball’s success under coach Bruce Pearl, and a prime example of that bearing witness resides in the sport’s premier pregame viewing.
ESPN’s “College GameDay” has made Neville Arena a frequent stop in recent seasons, and it’ll return to the Plains on Saturday for the Tigers’ matchup with No. 6 Tennessee — the first top-10 matchup in the arena.
Since its initial airing in 2005, GameDay has done 155 on-campus shows. Saturday’s airing, which will be the first on-campus show of the 2024-25 season, will be No. 156, and Auburn moves into rarer company with the show’s arrival.
Auburn will become one of just seven schools to host the show at least five times. Florida (five shows) and Kentucky (nine) are the only other SEC schools to reach that mark, with Michigan State, Kansas, North Carolina and Duke being the only other schools to host at least five times.
But the arrival of such fanfare hasn’t directly translated to automatic results for Pearl’s Tigers. They’re 2-2 all-time in the circumstance, and they haven’t won a game that GameDay appeared for since 2022, beating an unranked Texas A&M squad 75-58.
