Timothée Chalamet’s new flex: school soccer analyst

Actor Timothée Chalamet strayed from his indie roots and artsy persona to step into the world of school soccer on Saturday when he appeared on ESPN’s “School GameDay” as a visitor soccer analyst, choosing his winners for the extremely anticipated convention championship video games.

The 28-year-old, who is about to star within the Bob Dylan biopic “A Full Unknown” opening Christmas Day, predicted Texas would overcome the Georgia Bulldogs within the SEC championship. The sport is the most important of the evening.

“It is a Longhorns victory,” the French actor mentioned alongside “GameDay” host Rece Davis, former NFL kicker Pat McAfee and former Alabama head coach Nick Saban.

Through the in style pregame present, Chalamet predicted Oregon would take down Penn State within the Huge Ten championship.

Chalamet, whose covers of “Like a Rolling Stone” and “Lady From the North Nation” have been launched on Friday, didn’t cease there whereas making an attempt to point out off his sports activities acumen to a nationwide viewers.

When it got here to the Huge 12 championship, he picked the red-hot Solar Devils of Arizona State to deliver dwelling the trophy in opposition to Iowa State.

“I’m pulling for Arizona State at the moment,” he mentioned throughout the telecast.

Within the Solar Belt Convention, Chalamet selected Louisiana over Marshall.

“Billy Napier’s legend stays, the protection is robust,” he joked, referring to how the present Florida Gators head coach as soon as held the identical place at Louisiana.

And in a twist, the actor predicted favourite Miami of Ohio would lose to in-state rival Ohio College within the MAC championship.

“These groups are 2-2 of their final 4 matchups. I’m going underdog, Bobcats,” he mentioned.

Demonstrating his versatility as a sports activities guru, Chalamet selected Southern Methodist College to defeat Clemson.

“It smells just like the Nineteen Eighties, people,” he mentioned.

Within the SWAC championship, Chalamet picked Jackson State College over Southern.

“I’m going with Jackson State,” he mentioned on the published. “This must be a straightforward win for them.”

Bob Dylan praised each the movie and Chalamet, who performs the famed singer-songwriter within the film, earlier this week in a submit on X.

“There’s a film about me opening quickly known as A Full Unknown (what a title!),” Dylan wrote.