Penn State fans made their feelings about the 12:00 p.m. ET start time of Saturday's game against No. 4 Ohio State very clear. One Penn State student even wrote a blog imploring Nittany Lions fans to boycott Big Noon Kickoff, the pregame show on Fox—the network set to broadcast the Buckeyes and Nittany Lions' clash.
ESPN's College GameDay, which was also in town not far from the set of Big Noon Kickoff, took full advantage of the Penn State fans' discontentment with Fox. ESPN analyst Pat McAfee, with the help of the Nittany Lions fans, took a shot at the rival pregame show.
Didn't take long for @PatMcAfeeShow to start a Penn State chant 🔊 pic.twitter.com/UUJFkLsi2R
— College GameDay (@CollegeGameDay) November 2, 2024
"This game is not at night, this is a big noon kickoff… I don’t think there’s any people at their set, that's on them, not on us," McAfee said.
And the College GameDay crew kept going. Not only did McAfee hit Fox where it hurts by pointing to their crowd size, but his words seemed to rile up the Nittany Lions fans enough to the point where they started an NSFW chant aimed at Big Noon Kickoff.
The Penn State College GameDay crowd breaks into a "F--- Big Noon" chant as the crew jokes about night games.
— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) November 2, 2024
"I think they would prefer a little bit of a later start." pic.twitter.com/8A1zQ4mVzG
This sequence of events made for entertaining television, but it also turned the heat up on the College Gameday-Big Noon Kickoff rivalry.
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This article was originally published on www.si.com as Pat McAfee Took Shot at Fox's 'Big Noon Kickoff' Before Penn State-Ohio State Game .
