October 29, 2006
The award-winning ESPN College GameDay, built by Home Depot, is heading to College Station, Texas, for this Saturday?â„¢s (Nov. 4) football game between Texas A&M and Oklahoma. The two-hour show airs on ESPN beginning at 9 a.m. central. The football game is set to start at 7 p.m. central and will be shown on ABC.
More information and the exact location will be determined at a later time.
This marks the second trip to Aggieland for the trio of Chris Fowler, Lee Corso and Kirk Herbstreit and the ESPN GameDay crew. The crew highlighted the Nov. 11, 2000, football game between these same two schools.
In 2000, OU was ranked #1 in the country and Texas A&M was ranked #23. In the fourth quarter with Texas A&M facing a fourth-and-one on the Sooner 27-yard line, 265-pound Aggie fullback Ja?â„¢Mar Toombs got the call. He met first resistance at the 20-yard and finally drug three Sooner defenders into the end zone for a 27-yard touchdown to put the Aggies ahead, 31-21, with 13:36 remaining in the game.
The Sooners answered with a 77-yard, 15-play drive as Sooner quarterback Josh Heupel led the Sooners back. OU running back Quentin Griffin scored on a two-yard run, and the score was cut to 31-28 with 7:43 remaining. Less than a minute later, Sooner linebacker Torrance Marshall stepped in front of a Mark Farris pass and returned the interception 41 yards to put the Sooners ahead for the first time with 7:18 remaining in the game.
A&M would not go quietly as Farris rallied the Aggie offensive troops and marched down to the OU four-yard line. Two pass attempts failed and OU took over on downs. OU went on to win the national championship.