Kirk Herbstreit Reacts to ESPN’s Pat McAfee Announcement

Key Points

• Kirk Herbstreit and Pat McAfee appear together on "College GameDay."
• Herbstreit recently reacted to news that McAfee’s personal show, "The Pat McAfee Show," surpassed 1 billion views in September.
• McAfee founded the show in 2019, and it made its way onto ESPN’s network in 2023.

One of the best sports shows on television is ESPN’s "College GameDay," which airs every Saturday during the college football season.

Two major reasons for its ongoing success are Kirk Herbstreit — the show’s longest-tenured panelist — and Pat McAfee, who joined the program full-time in September 2022 and has arguably become the face of it.

The chemistry among the entire crew — from Rece Davis and Desmond Howard to McAfee, Herbstreit, and the newest addition, legendary coach Nick Saban — makes for an exciting, knowledgeable, and entertaining broadcast leading up to kickoff each week.

However, "College GameDay" isn’t the only show seeing massive success with McAfee’s name on it.

ESPN announced that in September, "The Pat McAfee Show" — which McAfee founded in 2019 — had a record-breaking month, surpassing 1 billion monthly social media views for the first time and delivering its most-watched September ever across both ESPN and YouTube.

It didn’t take long for Herbstreit, who frequently appears on McAfee’s show, to react to the news with a message to McAfee and his crew, writing, “Congrats to you and the boys!!!”