To this day, even after the pulverization of terrestrial television, there are only two sure Saturday bets on the small screen: college football and Saturday Night Live.
If you think these properties rarely overlap, that’s not your imagination. In the half-century history of SNL, no true college sports figure has ever hosted the show. There could be a number of reasons for this—the territorial nature of college sports, their relative unpopularity in New York, the logistics of any college sports figure dropping everything and flying to New York, and the fact that such figures frequently work Saturdays—but fewer and fewer hold water as college sports’ post-pandemic popularity boom continues.
