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Texas Ex Scottie Scheffler will act as College GameDay guest picker

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4 weeks ago

October 18, 2024

We had a feeling. In our ‘Ranking possible College GameDay guest pickers‘ article, we ranked former Texas Longhorns golfer Scottie Scheffler as the No. 1 candidate.

Now we know. Scheffler will indeed act as the College GameDay guest picker. ESPN analyst Kirk Herbstreit announced Thursday on the Pat McAfee Show that Scottie Scheffler, the No. 1-ranked golfer in the world, will get the honors.

Scheffler has had one of the best and one of the craziest years in golf history. Maybe sports history.

This all happened in 2024:

March 10: Won Arnold Palmer Invitational

March 17: Won The Players Championship

April 14: Won The Masters

April 22: Won the RBC Heritage

May 8: First child is born — a son named Bennett

May 17: Arrested outside of the PGA Championship

May 17: Made Tee Time and shot a 5-under 66

May 19: Finished 8th at the PGA Championship

May 29: Charges against Scheffler dropped

June 9: Won Memorial Tournament

June 23: Won the Travelers Championship

July 11: Won the ESPY for Best Golfer

Aug. 4: Won Olympic Gold Medal at the 2024 Paris Games

Sept. 1: Won the Tour Championship

Sept. 1: Won the 2024 FedEx Cup

Sept. 1: Total earnings $64,228,357

Oct. 17: Named ESPN College GameDay guest picker

If it was a movie script it’d be rejected as absurdly unrealistic. He won his second Players. He won his second Masters. He had a kid. Arrested nine days later outside the gates of a major championship … that he was playing in. Still played well. Charges dropped then a hot run that saw four more wins, the Tour Championship and the FedEx cup all in one day.

Nine wins, one major, one baby, one arrest, the FedEx cup and $62 million … in winnings. Oh, and a gold medal. Only the third American to do it. Oh, and an ESPY. That doesn’t count what he’s made on endorsements. Or, for that matter, what he’s lost in attorney fees.

Scheffler became the only golfer in history to win the The Players Championship, the Masters Tournament and the Tour Championship in the same season this year. Tiger never did it. Jack never did it.

Now he comes home to Austin as the celebrity face of the University, which is kind of what the guest picker has become.

If Tiger Woods had ever had the year Scottie just had we’d still be talking about it. But Scheffler’s calm ‘every-man’ demeanor and look probably hurts in the Q-Rating. But it does help win golf tournaments. It will be great to see Scheffler in this kind of fun setting and getting rewarded for making history.

Texas has had a lot of incredible golfers. Crenshaw, Kite, Leonard, Spieth. But this mild mannered guy might be the best of the bunch.

Scheffler has been on ESPN College GameDay in the past. The Texas golf team presented him with the Jack Nicklaus Award. Glen Powell was the guest picker that day. Texas lost to Alabama 20-19 after Quinn Ewers was injured.