UAB football will get plenty of attention on the first full Saturday of the 2017 college season, with country music superstar and former Blazer quarterback Sam Hunt coming to ESPN's "College Gameday" as the celebrity game picker.

The show is broadcasting from Atlanta all day, where No. 1 Alabama and No. 3 Florida State square off in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game that night at 7 p.m. Central Time.

The show's Kirk Herbstreit tweeted out an invitation for Hunt to travel to Atlanta from Birmingham, where he'll be performing at a free "House Party" concert in the Midtown entertainment district Friday night.

Hunt, in turn, responded that he'd love to be on the "Gameday" set Saturday morning.

Heard @SamHuntMusic is gonna be at UAB Friday night… Wonder if he can swing by ATL Saturday AM and join @CollegeGameDay?? — Kirk Herbstreit (@KirkHerbstreit) September 1, 2017

Hunt will perform in Friday night's free concert in Birmingham in celebration of UAB's return to the football field for the first time since the program was disbanded in 2014.

UAB plays Alabama A&M Saturday at Legion Field at 2:30 p.m.

Hunt quarterbacked the UAB team in 2006 and 2007 and has been vocally supportive of the program's return to the gridiron.

The ESPN's popular live show is broadcast each Saturday from the site of a premiere college football game. A celebrity appears on the show to make his or her picks for the big games of the day.