It was announced Saturday that ESPN’s “College GameDay” will head to Tuscaloosa on Saturday, Sept. 9, in Week 2 for the No. 4 Alabama-No. 11 Texas game.

GameDay will be live from Denny Chimes, while SEC Nation will originate from Wade Hall (10 a.m. – noon, SEC Network).

This will be just the fifth time that GameDay and SEC Nation are visiting the same game site in the regular season, following Florida vs. Georgia (2018), LSU at Alabama (2019), Kentucky at Georgia (2021) and Alabama at Tennessee (2022).

Rece Davis hosts College GameDay, the 12-time Emmy Award-winning show, with analysts Lee Corso, Kirk Herbstreit, Desmond Howard and Pat McAfee along with college football insider Pete Thamel, reporters Jen Lada and Jess Sims and newcomer ‘Stanford Steve’ Coughlin.

The Week 2 trip marks GameDay’s 17th all-time visit to Tuscaloosa and first since the 2020 Iron Bowl. It will be the Crimson Tide’s 55th appearance overall on the show, the second-most of any team.

Laura Rutledge hosts SEC Nation in her seventh season, her eighth on the show overall, alongside Paul Finebaum, Roman Harper, Jordan Rodgers and Tim Tebow for the weekly breakdown of SEC football action.

Mark Heim is a reporter for The Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @Mark_Heim. He can be heard on “The Opening Kickoff” on WNSP-FM 105.5 FM in Mobile or on the free Sound of Mobile App from 6 to 9 a.m. daily.