Still looking at College Gameday potential for KU @ ISU on January 17. I'm keeping an eye on the other major conference schedules to see what the competition might be.
The ACC announced their schedule today. On Jan. 17, the ACC has no night games. Their best game during the day is Duke @ Louisville, scheduled for noon (Eastern) on ESPN/ESPN2. I don't know much about College Gameday for basketball, so correct me if I am wrong, but I really don't think they go to a game scheduled to be played at noon.
Also, I already mentioned that the Big Ten's best game on that date is Ohio State @ Iowa, so I don't think that's a real threat to KU-ISU either.
I just checked the SEC schedule and they have no good options on that day either.
I didn't find the Pac-12 schedule, so still waiting on that. Maybe a UCLA-Arizona game or something would top KU-ISU, if it fell on Jan. 17.
Other than that though, this seems like it has a good chance. Although I did notice that the Big 12 may have edited the page with game times that was previously linked here. What originally said "5:00 or 8:00" for this game now says "TBD."