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 It’s Homecoming Week at Ol’ Mizzouon Sunday The ESPN College GameDay show will originate from the Mizzou campus for the first time ever.

   The set will be constructed at Francis Quadrangle, and Tiger fans are encouraged to come out in droves to show their support for the Tigers, as well as the GameDay show.

 ESPN officials have said that the biggest crowd ever assembled for a Saturday GameDay show was 15,800 at Nebraska, so Tiger fans have the bar set high.

   Saturday’s show will air live from 8-9 a.m. on ESPN-U, and then it will swith over to ESPN, where it will continue live from The Quad from 9-11 a.m.

   Mizzou has been part of the feature GameDay (which began in 1993 with a Florida State-at Notre Dame contest) game four times previously – all away from home.

 Three of the appearances came during Mizzou’s magical 2007 season, as the Tigers were part of GameDay for games at Oklahoma, versus rival Kansas at Kansas City’s Arrowhead Stadium, and again versus Oklahoma in a rematch as part of the Big 12 Championship Game in San Antonio’s Alamodome.

 The last appearance with GameDay was in 2008 at Texas. Mizzou went 1-3 in those games, claiming the win over 2nd-ranked Kansas in an epic 36-28 game which propelled the Tigers to #1 in the BCS and virtually every poll around.

   Of course, one of the most talked-about features of GameDay is the weekly head gear segment, where analyst and former Coach Lee Corso dons the headgear of the mascot from the school he feels will win the game

For the history buffs out there, Coach Corso has put on Truman the Tiger’s head twice in the previous four MU GameDay appearances – in 2007 versus Kansas and at the 2007 Big 12 Championship Game.

For more information go to www,mutigers.com