Whether it’s in his host role on Saturday morning’s ESPN College GameDay or the weekly College Football Playoff Top 25 Rankings Show on Tuesday evenings, Rece Davis has heard all the CFP complaints from disgruntled fans.

While those numbers were understandably frustrating for Penn State fans and administrators, ESPN College GameDay star Rece Davis warned recently that things could get worse for the Nittany Lions, depending on their hire.

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On yesterday’s episode of their show. Davis and Pete Thamel talked with Fitzgerald, the former head coach at Northwestern. In discussing it afterward, Davis just went and threw out his name for the open job at Penn State, with might fit for the Nittany Lions based on his past in the Big Ten.

While the trip to Utah isn’t a new experience for the “GameDay” crew, which visited Salt Lake City in 2004, 2010, 2015, 2016 and most recently in 2023, one new cast member who has a bit of history with the Utes is making his SLC “GameDay” debut.