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I believe GD came to MSU twice when I was there, and neither time was for a big game.

In 2004 they came to a matchup between MSU-ND when both teams were 1-2 and unranked.  They were supposed to go to LSU, but that was a Katrina game, so on short notice they just picked the host of the ESPN Primetime game, which was that.  I'm guessing that was simply where they already had enough infrastructure in place to move there on short notice.

Then in 2005, they came to the final game of the season for 5-5 MSU vs. #5 PSU, to see JoePa win a Big Ten title I guess?  There were 2 games between ranked teams that weekend.  I guess they didn't want to go to Auburn for the Iron Bowl, because they were just at Alabama the prior week.  But why not Ann Arbor, for UM-OSU?  NOt only had they not been to Michigan yet that year, they didn't go to Michigan at all in 2004 either

I believe GD came to MSU twice when I was there, and neither time was for a big game.

In 2004 they came to a matchup between MSU-ND when both teams were 1-2 and unranked.  They were supposed to go to LSU, but that was a Katrina game, so on short notice they just picked the host of the ESPN Primetime game, which was that.  I'm guessing that was simply where they already had enough infrastructure in place to move there on short notice.

Then in 2005, they came to the final game of the season for 5-5 MSU vs. #5 PSU, to see JoePa win a Big Ten title I guess?  There were 2 games between ranked teams that weekend.  I guess they didn't want to go to Auburn for the Iron Bowl, because they were just at Alabama the prior week.  But why not Ann Arbor, for UM-OSU?  NOt only had they not been to Michigan yet that year, they didn't go to Michigan at all in 2004 either

Katrina was 2005, but there were a lot of storms in 2004 too.

Option 1: Back when college football on tv was a little more niche, ESPN had a little more room to offer real analysis. When it became all-encompassing, the programming needed to change to appeal to the masses. By the mid-aughts I had given up on it because it was just so hollow / superficial.

Option 2: I'm romanticizing nostalgia for my past; Game Day was never that great, but I was young, it was novel, and my college football fandom grew up with it, so I think it must have been better back then.

Lee Corso was good for a turn of phrase, and he could add some levity, but his not so fast hot takes were generally garbage, if delivered with sincerity.

I think it's this.  Doesn't help that it went from 60 minutes to 180, in an era where the content is 24/7.  So most of it we already know, and yet they made the show longer

Yeah definitely agree with this.

Option 2: I'm romanticizing nostalgia for my past; Game Day was never that great, but I was young, it was novel, and my college football fandom grew up with it, so I think it must have been better back then.

Lee Corso was good for a turn of phrase, and he could add some levity, but his not so fast hot takes were generally garbage, if delivered with sincerity.

Option 2 for $100, Alex.  

Honestly I just turn GameDay on out of habit. For the most part I'm not really "watching" it... Half the time I then tune the TV to whatever game seems most interesting to me, but I'm not really "watching" that either. It's background noise. 

Except of course when that boorish loudmouth McAfee gets going. Hard to tune that MFer out. 

My wife will definitely miss Corso and the headgear though. That was the only thing she cared about from the show.