Pat McAfee spends plenty of time on camera for his ESPN show and analyst role on College GameDay , but for the first time, he is now on the big screen.

McAfee makes his acting debut in The Mosquito Bowl , Peter Berg ‘s new sports war drama that follows the real-life story of four star college football players who join the Marines after Pearl Harbor. Before heading out to battle, they play a football game, dubbed the Mosquito Bowl, that goes down in history. McAfee appears in the movie as a Marines drill instructor, appearing alongside stars Nicholas Galitzine , Bill Skarsgard , Ray Nicholson and Tom Francis.

The film premiered at Los Angeles’ AFI Fest on Thursday, where McAfee walked the carpet and explained just how his movie moment came to be.…