Early Sunday morning, Big Sky Conference commissioner Tom Wistrcill received a text message that was over a year in the making. A contact of his at ESPN had reached out informing him that College GameDay, the network's marquee college football pregame show, had chosen Bozeman, MT as their destination for this weekend's broadcast.
The news was not only a major payoff for weeks of campaigning on social media, but it was a landmark moment for the league and the show itself. Never before has GameDay broadcasted from a Big Sky campus, but this Saturday that will change when they go live from Montana State University before the annual "Brawl of the Wild" showdown between #3 Montana State and #13 Montana.