Pat McAfee Expresses Dislike for Salt Lake City After College GameDay Visit
Following a "College GameDay" visit to the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, ESPN personality Pat McAfee publicly expressed strong dislike for the location.
Salt Lake City, UT, October 26, 2026 —
ESPN personality Pat McAfee publicly expressed strong dislike for the location after a College GameDay visit to the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, according to the information provided.
The available account identifies Salt Lake City as the place McAfee criticized but does not include his exact words or explain what specifically prompted his reaction. It also does not provide the date of the visit, the venue details, or where and when McAfee made the comments. Without those details, the scope and context of his remarks cannot be established from the information available.
The account does not describe any response from the University of Utah, the city, ESPN, or other people associated with the visit. It also does not say whether McAfee later clarified or expanded on his comments. No additional reactions or consequences were provided.
The reported episode is limited to McAfee’s stated dislike of the location following the program’s visit. The information does not identify a particular neighborhood, facility, or other specific place as the focus of the criticism, so the remarks should not be attributed to any narrower location. It also offers no basis for inferring why he disliked it.
Further details—including the wording of the comments and the circumstances in which they were made—were not provided. As a result, the available information supports only a narrow account: McAfee expressed strong dislike for Salt Lake City after College GameDay visited the University of Utah. Any fuller explanation of the remarks or their reception would require information not included in the summary.
Story summarized from the original created by Jason Batacao on www.sltrib.com, see more information here.
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