ESPN’s College GameDay has opened the 2024 college football season with some standout guest pickers, including Dawn Staley, Michael Phelps, Johnny Manziel and, of course, Miss Terry Saban, who made an appearance for Week 5’s game between Alabama and Georgia.
Miss Terry — who’s been married for more than 50 years to former Crimson Tide coach Nick Saban, now a panelist on GameDay — was an absolute delight on the show, and college football fans loved her appearance, as she showed off her extensive football knowledge too with some great picks.
In fact, Miss Terry’s GameDay picks were so accurate that her Week 5 record was better than her husband’s. She finished at 7-2, while Nick Saban went 6-3. Before the GameDay crew could even start to get a few jokes off at Saban’s expense on Saturday when the show aired live from Berkeley, California, the former coach explained how miserable this week has been for him after Miss Terry’s picks.
“I’ve been hearing this all over the country,” Saban said. “There’s no place that I can go that I don’t hear about Miss Terry beating me.”
"I've been hearing this all over the country. There's no place that I can go that I don't hear about Miss Terry beating me in the pick 'em." – Nick Saban https://t.co/yNk38OK9Hs pic.twitter.com/VATYRjBuNJ
— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) October 5, 2024
Gotta love Ms. Terry and @dawnstaley in the top two celebrity guest picker spots on ESPN's @CollegeGameDay. #ThatsaW pic.twitter.com/WiDkyiLcjD
— bill hofheimer (@bhofheimer_espn) October 5, 2024
Hilariously, one of the correct picks Miss Terry made that Nick Saban did not was Colorado over UCF, and Miss Terry gasped when her husband picked “against our good friend Deion” Sanders.
"I got your back, Deion" 👏
Ms. Terry couldn't believe Coach Saban picked against Colorado 😅 pic.twitter.com/ki8VJo0YXQ
— College GameDay (@CollegeGameDay) September 28, 2024
Either way, we hope Miss Terry enjoys her bragging rights after last week’s GameDay appearance.
