Mack Brown and Nick Saban Play Hungry Hungry Hippos 'Texas Style'

Photographers swarm the set as students walking to their classes turn their heads towards the huge ESPN signs advertised around the stage. A lone security guard starts to block off a walkway right next to the set while film crews prepare to start shooting.

Texas Longhorns head coach Mack Brown is in California to do another commercial for College GameDay on ESPN. This time he's playing Jenga and Hungry Hungry Hippos. According to a security guard at the shooting, filming originally took place at UCLA but Bruins fans were too loud.

The scene was setup to look like the College GameDay set and the background showed the grass field near the engineering buildings at Cal State Long Beach, a university which had failed to petition the return of its football team in April 2010, according to the Daily 49er.

Alabama Crimson Tide head coach Nick Saban and hosts of the show Chris Fowler and Kirk Herbstreit were also present; however the other two hosts Lee Corso and Desmond Howard were not at the shooting.

The scene started with Brown removing a Jenga block from the middle of the tower and placing it on the top. Fowler walks up to the sports desk and picks up a block from the bottom and the entire tower falls. Saban then sweeps the blocks off the desk.

Everyone looks at Fowler while he stares at the floor where all the blocks have fallen. Brown proceeds to get the Hungry Hungry Hippos game board and challenges Saban to a game.

"Hungry Hippos Texas style baby! It's on," Brown says as cameras roll on set.

Brown and Saban battle each other and try to capture as many of the plastic white marbles. The director yells "cut" and laughter fills the set.

Shooting was finished at approximately 1 p.m. when Brown, Fowler, Herbstreit and Saban fled off in a golf cart away from the crowd of students and faculty looking on and taking photos.