Support the 'College GameDay' in Berkeley Movement for Cal vs. Miami

Here's how you can do your part to make College Gameday a reality at the greatest public university on the planet.

Credit: mpete91 on Cal Twitter

For those out of the loop, ESPN’s College Gameday is heralded as the premier pre-game show for college football, airing Saturday mornings prior to the day’s full slate of games. Each week, the show visits a different host college campus, showing off various traditions, locales, food, and more. In the 36-year history of the program, they have yet to set foot on campus at Berkeley.

Given the strong start to the year, and a close win over Auburn, fans began speculating that maybe, just maybe, this would be the year that College Gameday came to Cal. Following the loss to FSU, that hope took a hit. But I’m here to tell you that there is still a very good chance that this could happen, and our strong online Cal army are still doing their very best to insert themselves into the mix.

There are no dominant games

College Gameday usually goes to the Game of the Week, which would’ve been Miami at Cal if both teams were undefeated.

That being said, there are no strong contenders for next week.

• Michigan at Washington as the national title rematch seemed like the obvious candidate at the start of the season, but both teams have already lost, taking some luster out of the matchup.

• There is also a possibility they go to an FCS game (which they do every year). There is a top ten matchup between North Dakota State and North Dakota looming, so this would be a sleeper pick.

• Missouri at Texas A&M is the only ranked top 25 matchup, but Gameday already went to College Station.

• The majority of the other Top 25 matchups will likely have all the favorites sporting two touchdown lines in Vegas. Not hugely compelling.

• Additionally, College Gameday has yet to traverse outside of an SEC game. I imagine they will want to cross the streams and showcase the ACC frontrunner Miami at least once. Their last major marquee games is at Louisville, but that is the same week as Georgia at Texas and Alabama at Tennessee.

So there is still hope!

The Calgorithm remains a national news story

While the buzz has dulled a little since Cal’s defeat to Florida State, there have been articles with the Daily Mail, NBC News, USA Today and KQED. The reach is still very much there if we can keep the movement going.

Our small but nimble army of Cal Twitter burners have been hard at work getting the campaign going. Here are some fun little tweets that will hopefully get the buzz moving in the right direction before a decision is eventually made.

And most notably, a College Gameday producer has noticed!

College Gameday has never been to Berkeley

ESPN is trying to check off locations while they still have Lee Corso on the desk, and there are six locations left in College Gameday: Rutgers, Illinois, Maryland, Syracuse, Virginia and Cal.

It does seem like with a pro-athletics Chancellor in place, the university will be far more accommodating to a College Gameday appearance then when they previously declined it a few decades ago.

How you can help

If you are on social media of any sort, the current hashtag that is being used on Twitter is #FightForCalGameday. We recommend doing the following:

• Create your text posts, memes, images (or feel free to borrow!) and post them on your socials. If you want to write about it

• Use hashtag #FightForCalGameday to increase awareness around the campaign

• Engage other #FightforCalGameday posts (Like, Retweet, Share, etc.) to drive engagement numbers up and make it undeniable that Cal fans want Gameday!

• Tag College Gameday in your stories, posts, tweets, Tiktoks, whatever. Their handle on all social platforms should be “@CollegeGameday".

• If you are uncomfortable using your social handles, send us your messages/memes on our social platforms (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter) and we can boost them on your behalf!

The Bear doesn’t quit and the Bear doesn’t die until College Gameday comes to town!