‘CFB Primetime with The Pat McAfee Show’ premieres Saturday for NC State-Clemson

Pat McAfee's alternate broadcast debuts on Saturday.

Pat McAfee takes a bite to eat at the ESPN College GameDay stage outside of Ayres Hall on the University of Tennessee campus in Knoxville, Tenn. on Saturday, Sept. 24, 2022. The flagship ESPN college football pregame show returned for the tenth time to Knoxville as the No. 12 Vols hosted the No. 22 Gators. Kns Espn College Gameday

By Joe Lucia on 09/27/2022

The latest chapter of Pat McAfee’s ESPN career begins this weekend.

In August, McAfee announced he was pairing with Peyton Manning’s Omaha Productions to bring a college football simulcast to ESPN during select games this season.

On Tuesday, ESPN announced the alternate broadcast, entitled CFB Primetime with The Pat McAfee Show, will premiere Saturday on ESPN2. The broadcast, with guests to be announced, will air simultaneously with ABC’s traditional broadcast for the top ten matchup between NC State and Clemson.

This month, McAfee also joined ESPN’s College GameDay, which will be in Clemson for the game getting the Primetime treatment. I’m not the target audience for this, but I’m somewhat curious what the broadcast will end up looking like, and if McAfee and the GameDay crew will be on site for all the games getting the treatment throughout the regular season.

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