ESPN’s College GameDay Driven by State Farm and Saturday Primetime Presented by DIRECTV  will return this season Saturday, Jan. 15, from Knoxville, Tenn., site of the Tennessee Volunteers men’s and women’s teams hosting the Vanderbilt Commodores at noon and 8 p.m. ET, respectively. This is the second straight year a women’s game is part of the opening weekend in the Saturday Primetime game. 

College GameDay Driven by State Farm, the popular eight-week Saturday morning and evening college basketball program originating from the site of ESPN’s Saturday Primetime Presented by DIRECTV telecast, will expand to include an extra hour of analysis, news and features. ESPNU will air the new first hour of College GameDay  at 10 a.m. and ESPN will continue to televise the show at 11 a.m. and a one-hour edition at 8 p.m. (except Jan. 15 when the show will air on ESPN at 10 a.m. and ESPNU at 11 a.m.). The Saturday Primetime game-of-the-week will be aired at 9 p.m. (except for Jan. 15 and Jan. 29). 

College GameDay is hosted by Rece Davis with returning analysts Jay Bilas, Digger Phelps, Hubert Davis and Bob Knight. Dan Shulman and Dick Vitale will call the Saturday Primetime games.  Shulman with team with Doris Burke for the Vanderbilt at Tennessee women’s game. 

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