‘College GameDay’ Makes Peyton Manning Announcement Before Texas-Tennessee Game

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on Saturday for ESPN's "College GameDay," and his visit comes hours before his nephew, Arch Manning, leads No. 1 Texas into Neyland Stadium against No. 14 Tennessee.that the former Vols quarterback will join analyst Pat McAfee for the "Kicking is Easy" contest.

The segment, now in its fourth season, picks fans from the crowd to try one 33-yard field goal with no warm-up kicks. The show will air from 9 a.m. to noon ET on ESPN, ESPNU, Disney+ and the ESPN App. The first two hours will come from the Ayres Hall Lawn, and the final hour will move inside Neyland Stadium. Arch Manning wears No. 16 for the Longhorns, the same number Tennessee retired for his uncle.

That puts the Vols legend between his old school and his family this weekend.

"One of the kids was asking me earlier who I was going to go for," Peyton Manning said. "And I said, 'Well, who do you think? ' And he said that he would go for his school over his relative. And I went, 'Well, you and I are different.

You and I are wired differently.

' Nothing's more important than your family. "to play well. But like I said, everybody knows pretty strongly where my loyalties lie on all other Saturdays.

", and others defended him. The 1998 No. 1 overall draft pick threw for 11,201 yards from 1994 to 1997, which remains the most in school history. He later won Super Bowls with the Indianapolis Colts and Denver Broncos and entered the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2021. No. 1 Texas and No. 14 Tennessee kick off at noon ET on ABC.

It's the first regular-season meeting between the two programs. Their three past games all came on New Year's Day at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas. Matt De Lima is a veteran sports writer and editor with 15+ years of experience covering college football, the NFL, NBA, WNBA, and MLB. A Virginia Tech graduate and two-time FSWA finalist, he has held roles at DraftKings, The Game Day, ClutchPoints, and GiveMeSport.

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