College Football Live premiered on ESPN on July 23, 2007. The show was built to give college football fans a dedicated daily platform for news, analysis, and debate throughout the sport’s long preseason and regular season. In its earlier years, the show’s host lineup included Wendi Nix alongside rotating analysts, with players and coaches dropping in to discuss the week’s biggest storylines. It has aired in various timeslots over the years, settling into its current home on ESPN2 at 5 p.m. ET.
Today, the show airs Tuesday through Friday during the college football season, with each edition tailored to the week’s most compelling matchups and storylines. Tuesday through Thursday editions are anchored by host Zubin Mehenti, joined by a rotating panel of analysts including Sam Acho, Roddy Jones, Tom Luginbill, and EJ Manuel.
Insider Pete Thamel also joins the show on Tuesdays and Wednesdays to deliver breaking recruiting, transfer portal, and roster news. The Friday edition takes on an entirely different format. Jen Lada serves as the host, anchoring the show live from the week’s College GameDay site, giving fans a preview of the marquee matchup of the weekend from the ground level.
In the postseason, the show expands its scope to cover bowl game matchups and the College Football Playoff. During the summer, it returns to cover conference media days, kicking off the new season with live coverage from the Big 12, ACC, SEC, and Big Ten media days in July. Analysts from across ESPN’s college football roster rotate through the show throughout the season, including contributions from Heather Dinich, Andrea Adelson, and Max Olson on the reporting side.
Zubin Mehenti, a longtime ESPN anchor, joined College Football Live as its Tuesday-through-Thursday host beginning with the 2023 season. Jen Lada joined ESPN in 2015 and became one of the network’s key college football reporters and hosts before taking on the Friday College Football Live anchor role. The show remains a fixture of ESPN’s annual college football programming cycle, bridging the months between the draft and the opening weekend of the season.
