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Herbstreit facing a light Saturday
‘GameDay' analyst gets to watch OU's game from sideline

 
By Mel Bracht | Published: October 11, 2007    Comment on this article Leave a comment

I had thought the worst part of Kirk Herbstreit's hectic Saturday double duty — appearing on ESPN's "College GameDay” in the morning and providing commentary for ABC's main football game in the evening — would be the travel.

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For the first weekend this season, Herbstreit started out in Blacksburg, Va., for "GameDay,” then hopped on a private jet for a five-hour flight to Berkeley, Calif., arriving just 45 minutes before kickoff for the Tennessee-Cal game.

However, Herbstreit says the worst part is missing the game at the "GameDay” site, including last Saturday's Florida-LSU showdown.

"LSU-Florida turned out to be the game of the year at this point,” Herbstreit says, "and Cal-Oregon a few weeks ago was another game-of-the-year type of atmosphere. Not to be there, that's the toughest part. I can handle the travel and being at two sites at one day.

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