ESPN/Amazon's Kirk Herbstreit
SI Media With Jimmy Traina
Sports Illustrated
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2025
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Episode 574 of "SI Media With Jimmy Traina" features a conversation with ESPN and Amazon Prime's Kirk Herbstreit.
Herbstreit talks about what "College GameDay" has been like without Lee Corso, the popularity of the show's field-goal contest segment, Pat McAfee volunteering Herbstreit to donate money to the contest winners without clearing it with Herbstreit first, McAfee's viral dive in a speedo on a recent "GameDay" episode and what Nick Saban brings to "GameDay."
In addition, Herbstreit breaks down his crazy schedule with "Thursday Night Football," "College GameDay" and ABC's top game of the week, explains his issues with college football's schedule, and reveals where he stands on the Tush Push.
Following Herbstreit, Sal Licata from WFAN radio and SNY TV in New York joins Jimmy for their weekly "Traina Thoughts" segment. This week, Jimmy and Sal discuss Jimmy's appearance on a Bill Simmons Reddit page, their weekly gambling outcomes, baseball implementing the ABS challenge system, the "NFL Today's" throwback edition featuring Brent Musburger, Sal having to go to a 50th birthday party during the Oregon-Penn State and Alabama-Georgia games and much more.
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| 0:32.3 | Welcome everyone to SI Media with Jimmy Trana. |
| 0:36.1 | Thank you so, so much for listening. It is appreciated as always. |
| 0:39.8 | We have an excellent, excellent episode. We have Kirk Hurt Street, ESPN, and Amazon Prime. |
| 0:45.4 | Kirk was excellent talking about Leek Corso, Pat McAfee, College Game Day, and a bunch of other topics. |
| 0:52.8 | And then, of course, we have the train of thought segment with my buddy, Sal Akata. |
| 0:57.0 | Sal, with another dilemma in life, you'll hear all about that. |
| 1:01.3 | And I get into a nice little, nice words that were said about me on a Bill Simmons Reddit message board. |
| 1:10.1 | So shout out to those guys. |
| 1:11.1 | If you're listening here at the top, make sure you stay to the end to hear all that. So |
| 1:13.9 | great episode. And the guests lately have been excellent. So make sure you catch up. If you've |
| 1:20.5 | missed any, last week were two guests, Mina Kimes and WWB Seth Rollins. We had Jim Nance on a couple |
| 1:26.5 | weeks ago, Brent Musburger recently as well. |
| 1:28.8 | So if you missed any of those, going to the archives, give them a listen and make |
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