Watch: Cal student wins $100K from ESPN's Pat McAfee, $600K donated to hurricane relief

It's college football Week 6 and ESPN's "College GameDay" is in Berkeley, Calif., for the first time in the program's history.

One Cal student named Daniel was this week's lucky participant to take a crack at host Pat McAfee's field-goal-kicking contest . If he made a 33-yard kick, he would win $75,000. He missed — but not by much.

Shocking McAfee and co-host Kirk Herbstreit, Daniel's boot had the distance but went wide right. Because of the surprising effort, McAfee awarded Daniel another shot but upped the stakes.

A successful kick would earn him $100,000 (the prize usually reserved for the end-of-season shows) and also tack on an additional $100,000 to the already-pledged $500,000 "College GameDay" is donating to Hurricane Helene relief efforts.

This time, Daniel nailed the kick right down the middle with a few yards to spare.

It's the largest prize McAfee and "College GameDay" have doled out to date.

"College GameDay" chose the home of the California Golden Bears for Saturday's first ACC matchup between them and the No. 8 Miami Hurricanes. Cal and Stanford joined the East Coast-based conference this season after the near-dissolution of the Pac-12.

The two teams have met only twice before with Cal winning both meetings, the most recent of which was in 2008 and hosted by Miami.