Photos of ESPN GameDay at 2022 TCU-Kansas State Big 12 Conference Championship Game

Photos by Tom C. "Midnite" Burke

(photo above and below) During its 20th anniversary season in 2022, ESPN GameDay, sponsored by Home Depot, appeared at three games featuring TCU: the Dr. Pepper Big 12 Conference Championship game on December 3, at AT&T Stadium in, Arlington, Texas; at TCU's game against Kansas, in Lawrence, on October 8; and at TCU's game against the University of Texas, in Austin, on November 12. TCU went 2-1 in those three games, including the 31-28 overtime loss to Kansas State in the Big 12 Conference Championship Game. TCU is 8-2 all-time when ESPN GameDay has been onsite.

 

As usual, a crimson-and-gray Washington State (WSU) flag was flying at GameDay. At least one of WSU flag has flown at every GameDay appearance since GameDay was in Austin on October 18, 2003, for the Kansas State-Texas game. Ever since, at least one WSU flag always appears somewhere in the wide shots of the show’s panelists sitting on their stage. A WSU flag started being hoisted by WSU alums at GameDay shows to convince GameDay producers to visit Washington State. That happened on October 21, 2018, when #25 WSU hosted #12 Oregon. But the tradition of the WSU flag appearing at GameDay continued. Every week that GameDay is broadcast, a kit containing two WSU flags, poles and instructions on how to handle the flag-waving operation are sent to a Washington State alum in the area in which GameDay is appearing. The alum agrees to hoist at least one of the flags during the GameDay appearance, then ships the kit to an alum who lives in or near the locale of GameDay’s next appearance.

Star treatment: A warm van kept ESPN GameDay personality Lee Corso (background) out of the cold breeze when he did not have to be on the ESPN GameDay outdoor stage at the Dr. Pepper Big 12 Conference Championship Game.

Pro Football Hall of Famer and TCU Board of Trustees member LaDainian Tomlinson (second from right) was ESPN GameDay's special guest at the Dr. Pepper  Big 12 Conference Championship Game, joining Kirk Herbstreit (left), Lee Corso and Pat McAfee (right) on the stage inside AT&T Stadium.