Savannah Guthrie made her return to Today after missing an episode of the show during Craig Melvin’s first week as her official coanchor. Savannah, 53, was absent from the talk show on Thursday6. At the time of her absence,

He'd spent all day Sunday with Guthrie in Tampa for the Sunday Night Football game, then stayed up until 11 p.m. to watch his favorite team, the Washington Commanders, win the game. His first-day, back-to-school jitters started with rising at 3:45 a.m. for his hour commute to 30 Rock.

Craig Melvin is holding down the Today fort with the help of a familiar face. Savannah Guthrie was noticeably absent from Melvin's fourth day as official cohost of the NBC morning show for a very understandable reason.