To middle school students at Pittsburgh Classical Academy, he’s Mr. Griffin — their music teacher. But after each week in the classroom during the fall, Mr. Griffin gets to preside over some of the most festive and raucous gatherings on college campuses all over the country. He’s there to play music and keep the tailgate-party atmosphere going in the background of ESPN’s popular football pregame show, College GameDay.
To college football fans, everywhere from Ann Arbor to Tuscaloosa, he’s DJ Griff. His real name is Ryan Griffin, a 2010 graduate of Slippery Rock University with a degree in music. And he laid down his first tracks as a music teacher and disc jockey while at SRU.
