Outdoor Channel will premiere a travel and outdoor adventure show this summer featuring award-winning country music artist Nick Hoffman called Nick’s Wild Ride.  The half-hour, 13-episode series will debut July 1 at 7:30 p.m.

Hoffman is a former member of Kenny Chesney’s band and currently is a member of the country music trio The Farm. He has also performed with music superstars Sara Evans, Keith Urban, Brooks & Dunn, John Mellencamp, Trace Adkins, Steve Miller, James Otto, and more.

Produced by Watermarc Productions and Ugly Duckling Entertainment, Nick's Wild Ride follows the Nowthen, Minn., native and Nashville transplant as he explores the music, food, culture, history and heartbeat of each stop he makes along his journey.

The first episode takes Hoffman to Louisiana, where he learns from locals how to make hot sauce. He then travels the Mississippi River and hits the swamps to hunt turkey and catch crawfish. In other episodes Hoffman hunts waterfowl in Nebraska, checks out the best microbreweries in Denver, travels to the Argentine Republic capital of Buenos Aires and hunts javelina in Mexico.

The series is part of Outdoor Channel’s Friday night “country” programming roster, which includes the return of new episodes of Craig Morgan All Access Outdoors, Nick’s Wild Ride, and a slate of classic and modern western cinema blockbusters.

ESPN’s College GameDay is going country as Brad Paisley will visit Morgantown, W.Va., on the campus of West Virginia University on Nov. 1.

The native West Virginian will join host Chris Fowler and analysts Lee Corso, Kirk Herbstreit and Desmond Howard on the patio of Mountainlair Student Union. While this is only GameDay's second visit to Morgantown, Corso will be making his 250th headgear pick and looks to improve on his 171-78 record to date. Corso first officially donned the headgear on Oct. 5, 1996.

ABC will televise the game at 3:30 p.m. as the No. 20 Mountaineers face a tough challenge from the explosive 10th-ranked Horned Frogs of TCU, 

For his part, Paisley, who is headlining his Country Nation World Tour, becomes the third guest picker from the musical realm this season, following Kenny Chesney from the show's Sept. 27 stop in Columbia, S.C. and pop star Katy Perry's appearance at The Grove in Oxford, where she correctly prognosticated the Rebels' upset of Alabama's Crimson Tide. 

“Anytime we can get a star of Brad Paisley’s stature on the show it is a huge win" said ESPN senior coordinating producer Lee Fitting. "On top of that, Brad is a West Virginia native and huge Mountaineers fan. GameDay’s been on a great run this season with