Baylor v Texas Tech

Let’s talk college football for a bit. This weekend will see the Texas Tech Red Raiders host the BYU Cougars in a showdown of Big 12 teams. These two teams are atop the conference with BYU sitting at a perfect 8-0 while the Texas Tech is 8-1. It makes sense that this showdown is going to be looked at as a big one and it’s being rewarded with a stint on ESPN’s College GameDay.

That means that Lubbock, Texas will be the site of Saturday’s edition of College GameDay. For those unfamiliar with the show, each week at the very end, the hosts make their picks for every game and have a guest picker from the hosting university join them to make their picks as well. It’s a fun tradition that everyone gets really into.

Well, last week, Kirk Herbstreit teased that he knew exactly what was going to happen if Texas Tech beat Kansas State. That was exactly what’s played out, as Lubbock is the host of this week’s show and Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes is the obvious choice as the guest picker. Herbstreit spoke it into existence and now here we are.

Patrick Mahomes is this week’s guest picker on College GameDay

This is made possible, of course, due to the Chiefs having a bye week, giving Mahomes the chance to do this. Had K.C. not been on a bye, ESPN would have had to find themselves another Texas Tech alum to make the picks or the show might have just gone somewhere else, to be honest.

Mahomes played for the Red Raiders from 2014 to 2016 and had a season for the record books in his junior year in 2016, throwing for 5,052 yards, 41 touchdowns, and 10 picks. No one had really been talking about him before he broke onto the scene that year and once he had, entering the NFL Draft was the obvious next step.

Mahomes went from a potential Day 2 pick to the Chiefs trading up to the 10th pick to ensure he was their next franchise quarterback. What a brillant decision that was for them, as he’s led the Chiefs to five Super Bowl appearances and three Super Bowl victories while winning two league MVP awards.

Here’s to hoping Mahomes does well with his picks on College GameDay and that his Red Raiders hand BYU its first loss of the 2025 season.