BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (WDRB) -- Indiana University senior Daniel Trauberman carefully unfolded his crimson red Hoosier chair before planting it feet from the south entrance to Memorial Stadium.

It's Friday morning and he's one of the first fans set up to be in attendance for ESPN's College GameDay broadcast from Bloomington on Saturday.

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Students began camping out for ESPN's College GameDay in Bloomington. (WDRB photo)

“I’m actually the first one out here right now," Trauberman said. "I’m going to be here, probably, until 4 p.m. tomorrow when the game ends.”

Weekends arrive early here. So, too, do fans of an Indiana Hoosier football team looking to win its eighth straight game, which would match the program's best ever start to a season.

“This is electric," Trauberman said. "This is what college football is about, being able to be with your community and just hang out and celebrate something.”

And when stories emerge like this one in Bloomington with an undefeated team and a first year coach in Curt Cignetti, ESPN's College Gameday shows up.

"Smoke 'em if you got 'em because (Cignetti) is doing a great job," IU fan Jamie James said.

College GameDay's crew of Reece Davis, Kirk Herbstreit, Desmond Howard, Pat McAfee, Nick Saban and Lee Corso will broadcast from Bloomington Saturday before the Hoosiers square off against Washington at noon.

It's a homecoming for the gameday icon, Corso, who coached the Hoosiers from 1972 to 1983.

"Very good," Corso said Friday when WDRB News asked how it felt to be back.

ESPN colleagues added that Corso's energy in Bloomington is palpable.

“It’s been wonderful to bring him back and see how excited people are to have him back," ESPN's Reece Davis said.

“I think he’s trying to take it in stride, but yeah, he’s super jazzed up,” ESPN's "Standford Steve" Couglin said.

Gameday personalities interacted with early arriving fans on Friday. The show's host, Reece Davis, said the crew is expecting a large crowd for Saturday's broadcast, and described the excitement on campus.

“People, I’m sure, are going to camp out," Davis said. "We’re going to have a huge crowd and they’re going to be loud and excited. There’s just something energizing about that and I think it’s a lot different when we go some place where we haven’t been before.”

Two-time MLB all-star and former Indiana Hoosier Kyle Schwarber will be the guest picker Saturday. Schwarber had 38 runs this season for the Philadelphia Phillies.

He was taken fourth overall in the 2014 MLB Draft after leading Indiana to the College World Series.

College GameDay will be live from the South End Plaza at Memorial Stadium with gates opening at 6:30 a.m. and the show starts at 9 a.m.

The game will be broadcasted on the Big Ten Network at noon. Indiana also announced that the game will be a Red Out for fans.

"You can kind of feel it," IU student Seamus Head said. "Everyone's more excited, everyone is talking about it. Especially for a team like Indiana who has never been a football school. The excitement is insane. Over the top."

Still hours removed from a big Saturday in Bloomington, the energy is arriving early with plans to stay late.

“Born too late to explore the Earth, too early to explore space, but just in time for IU football,” Daniel Trauberman said.

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