No. 10 BYU is inching toward a matchup that could put Provo in the national spotlight. If the Cougars and Notre Dame both keep winning, College GameDay may be headed to LaVell Edwards Stadium for the Oct. 17 showdown.
That possibility came up on the College GameDay podcast, where Rece Davis said there’s “a really good chance” the show lands at BYU for the game, while also making clear he was not announcing anything official. He was looking ahead at the weekend slate and said the Cougars-Fighting Irish meeting could rise above everything else on the board.
“I don't know where else you would have gone the first four weeks if you really looked at the storylines, and then we're at Iowa this week,” Davis said. “And, you know, who knows? I'm not trying to give away secrets because no decision has been made, but I think there's a really good chance we'll be at BYU.”
He followed that up by stressing again that no decision has been made and that he was only reading the schedule and the potential for both teams to enter undefeated.
“I’m not trying to give anything away. That may not happen...
I’m gonna get in trouble with PR and probably with management for even bringing that up. We haven't come close to making a decision on that yet.
I'm just looking at the schedule...it might be the best game of the weekend, you know, and both might still be undefeated...it certainly would be a contender.”
Before BYU can worry about GameDay, it has to get through TCU and Iowa State. The Cougars are expected to be favored in both, though FPI gives them just a 59.6% chance to win both games. Notre Dame, meanwhile, is projected to have a 90% chance to beat North Carolina and Stanford and arrive in Provo undefeated.
This would not be unfamiliar territory for BYU. The last time College GameDay came to Provo was in 2008, when the Cougars hosted TCU and the Horned Frogs won convincingly. That remains the only time BYU has hosted the show in Provo.
More recently, BYU has been a stop for FOX’s Big Noon Kickoff twice in the last two years, for games against Arizona in 2024 and Utah in 2025. BYU won both of those games.
If the Cougars and Fighting Irish do meet with perfect records intact, the stage would be enormous. It would be one of the biggest games ever played at LaVell Edwards Stadium, maybe the biggest.
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