A 5-0 start will get you a lot of things in the world of college football.
After the best start since 1999, No. 16 Penn State will host ESPN's weekly college football preview show, ESPN College GameDay. Each week, the program begins at 10:30 a.m.
"We try to go to the most intriguing match-up of the week," Associate Manager for ESPN Communications Mac Nwulu said. "Penn State is a big story line in college football right now."
Nwulu didn't think that a visit to central Pennsylvania would've been likely at the beginning of the season.
"We always try to find a new site or a site we haven't been to in a while," he said.
College football analysts Chris Fowler, Lee Corso and Kirk Herbstreit -- the usual GameDay jockeys -- should roll into State College on Friday.
Nwulu said GameDay will tape analysis for a portion of ESPN's SportsCenter the night before the Nittany Lions kickoff against No. 6 Ohio State. He also indicated that Friday night's taping will take place around 5 p.m.
Penn State Sports Information Director Jeff Nelson said he hadn't been contacted regarding the show.
"I hadn't heard that," Nelson said. "There's really nothing for me to say until I get verification from the producer."
Herbstreit, a former quarterback at Ohio State, and Corso, a former head coach at Indiana, are not particularly popular among Big Ten crowds.
"Can I kick him in the balls?" Elizabeth Whipple (senior-kinesiology) said about Corso. "Whatever team he used to coach, we used to beat them all the time."
The Lions are 10-0 against the Hoosiers. Corso never coached against the Lions while at Indiana, but he battled Lions coach Joe Paterno when Corso was the quarterback's coach at Maryland.
Not all students were criticizing Corso and Herbstreit.
"I'm stoked," Andrew Gorman (senior-political science) said.
Gorman added that he would be posting the information on FightOnState.com immediately.
"It should be interesting to see what goes on," Martin Shelton (senior-journalism) said. "But I'm going to be pretty hyped for the game."
Collegian writers Sirage Yassin and Justin Kunkel contributed to this report.
