Clear-rimmed glasses, check!
A notepad and a pencil, check!
Signature purple and yellow crewneck sweatshirt, check!
Two-time SI Swimsuit model literally burned the midnight oil studying the game of football. At least, that’s what her Instagram post from Thursday suggested. The text box across the reel read: “Me studying football so I don’t embarrass myself on college game day.”

On Saturday, as planned, the 22-year-old LSU gymnast and her boyfriend, Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Paul Skenes, appeared as the celebrity pickers with the cast on ESPN’s College GameDay. Both LSU alumni watched as No. 11 Alabama crushed the No. 15 LSU Tigers! Livvy and Baseball Digest’s rookie of the year couldn’t have chosen a worse day to visit as the Crimson Tide effectively knocked the Tigers out of the College Football Playoff race with a dominant 42-13 washout in Baton Rouge.

Livvy’s appearance coincidentally was led up to by a controversial comment made, intentionally or unintentionally, by former Alabama coach Nick Saban. Keep up with us as it will be important in just a minute.

Back in Sept, Saban said, “The only place you play in the SEC that’s not hard to play is Vanderbilt. Because when you play at Vanderbilt, you have more fans there than they have. And that’s no disrespect to them, it’s the truth.” Just two weeks later, Vanderbilt won over then-top-ranked Alabama 40–35 in front of 28,934 fans at FirstBank Stadium, marking the Commodores’ first win over the Crimson Tide since 1984.

And Livvy had to poke fun at Saban who was sitting live at Saturday’s College Gameday as Saban’s former team was going up against her own in Death Valley. She retorted, “Someone once said that Vanderbilt was the easiest place to play in the SEC, but not today. I’m going with Vanderbilt,” Dunne said, although they lost 7-28 to South Caroline Gamecocks that very day.

Olivia uploaded a series of photos from the game in an Instagram post just a few hours ago with a caption saying, “Some of my better guest pics.” So, what ticked the college community off about it?

Through the course of coverage, Livvy hardly spoke. And when she did, both her winner predictions were, well, wrong! When asked who she thought would be the winner, the answer was obviously LSU. But the prediction didn’t come off as ordinary, almost felt like she was rubbishing the opponents’ chances to win the game. She said, “There can only be one answer to that question,” before naming her college.

That may have irked many, especially not after her veiled dig at Saban. Check them out!

Alabama fans show the way to Livvy: “Roll Tide!”

This one user is most certainly an Alabama fan, re-contextualizing the use of the famous cheer and rallying cry for their athletic teams, “Roll Tide!” They wrote, “Your appearance on college gameday was a disaster. Roll tide!”

“Cant spell LSU without the L,” said one user. As starting QB Jalen Milroe and Co. successfully swatted the Tigers away deep into the rankings, dropping to 6-3 overall and 3-2 in SEC play, HC Brian Kelly repeatedly blamed himself for it. He was quite hard on himself when he emotionally declared, “When you put on a jersey for LSU, there’s a standard of football that those three letters on your jersey — it’s a prerequisite, and we didn’t live up to that. That’s the disappointment.”

Regardless, Olivia’s prediction was embarrassingly incorrect, with fans not willing to forgive her. “Checking in to see how that game went,” said one fan with a sarcastic undertone. Feeling the backlash to the bone, her sister Julz tried coming to her rescue: “You studied harder for that than the SAT.” 

What do you think about Livvy’s first College Gameday appearance? Let us know in the comments section.