Social Media Can't Believe Timothée Chalamet Knows College Football

He shocked the world with his sports knowledge.

December 7, 2024
Timothée Chalamet
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Timothée Chalamet let the world know how tuned in he really is to College Football when he was a guest picker on ESPN’s College GameDay today (Dec. 7).

The actor let everyone know that he prepared for the moment beforehand. "I've been doing my research all night," Chalamet said before making his selections for which teams he believed would win. "I'm gonna come with the sharpest picks anyone has ever seen on College GameDay."

Chalamet didn’t just pull names out of a hat, either. He went down the line of matchups, using real stats and critical analyses of how teams and players play to pick who he believed would be triumphant today. Case in point — when talking about Iowa State, he referenced the fact that they’ve never won a conference championship with such confidence that the rest of the broadcasters were shocked.

Chalamet didn’t just blow the minds of his fellow announcers — he also sent social media into a frenzy with an equal mix of people believing that he’s the ultimate college football fanatic and that he was reading cue cards the entire time.

Here are the best reactions from Chalamet’s appearance on College GameDay.