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'College GameDay' Coming To Gillette Stadium For Army-Navy Game
ESPN's beloved college football kickoff show will pop up in Foxborough for this year's Army-Navy game on Dec. 9.
FOXBOROUGH, MA — For a chunk of college football fans, Saturday mornings start by flipping the television to ESPN and listening to Rece Davis, Kirk Herbstreit, Lee Corso and the gang wax poetic on the set of "College GameDay".
For football fans in New England, they'll have a rare chance to make the trip to the scene of the production this winter.
ESPN's Week 15 show at the Army-Navy game will be live from Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, marking the first time the home of the New England Patriots hosts "America’s Game."
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"GameDay", however, will be featuring Army-Navy for the ninth time, having previously traveled to game sites in East Rutherford, N.J., West Point, N.Y., Baltimore and Philadelphia.
Corso, a former Navy assistant coach (1966-68), has picked Navy each of the eight previous times the game was featured on the show, going 4-4 with his picks, according to ESPN.
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This year marks the 124th playing of the game as the Black Knights face the Midshipmen for the coveted Commander-in-Chief’s Trophy. The game will be hosted in the Boston area in conjunction with the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party and the 225th anniversary of the USS Constitution’s maiden voyage.
It will be the first time the game has been played in New England and Navy will serve as the home team.
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