ESPN's College Football Announcing Schedule Week One
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
I finally got a hold of ESPN's Week One Announcing Schedule for you and it's full of familiar faces and a few interesting surprises. A lot of the teams are the same from last year, including Ward-Bentley, Pasch-Ware, Franklin-Cunningham and Patrick-Blackledge. There are some significant changes though, and here's what I noticed....
- Everyone welcome Shaun King and ex-Washington Husky, Brock Huard to the mix!
- Huard is with Bob Wischusen Week One. It'll be interesting to see if Bob will be back on ABC games, or stick with ESPN2 contests.
- Jesse Palmer is with Fowler and James for Week One. Not sure if Doug Flutie was dropped yet or not.
- Good old Pam is back on the early Big Ten contest. Let's hope there aren't any technical difficulties this year.
If I missed anything let me know. Here's your schedule minus the ABC games, which will be filled in shortly....
College Gameday: Live from Atlanta, GA for the Alabama-Clemson game
Thursday 8/28
Vanderbilt @ Miami (OH) (ESPNU, 7:30pm) - Mike Gleason, John Congemi
North Carolina State @ South Carolina (ESPN, 8pm) - Chris Fowler, Craig James, Jesse Palmer
Oregon State @ Stanford (ESPN2, 9pm) - Ron Franklin, Ed Cunningham
Friday 8/29
Temple @ Army (ESPN Classic, 7pm) - Eric Collins, Shaun King
Southern Methodist @ Rice (ESPN2, 8pm) - Joe Tessitore, Rod Gilmore
Saturday 8/30
Virginia Tech v. East Carolina from Charlotte (ESPN, Noon) - Dave Pasch, Andre Ware
Syracuse @ Northwestern (ESPN2, Noon) - Pam Ward, Ray Bentley
Bowling Green @ Pittsburgh (ESPNU, Noon) - Dave Armstrong, Larry Coker
Utah @ Michigan (ABC, 3:30pm)-
USC @ Virginia (ABC, 3:30pm)-
Delaware @ Maryland (ESPNU, 3:45pm) - Doug Bell, Charles Arbuckle
Appalachian State @ Louisiana State (ESPN, 5pm) - Sean McDonough, Chris Spielman
Mississippi State @ Louisiana Tech (ESPN2, 6:45pm) - Bob Wischusen, Brock Huard
Boston College v. Kent State from Cleveland (ESPNU, 7pm) - Clay Matvick, David Diaz-Infante
Michigan State @ CAL (ABC, 8pm)-
Alabama v. Clemson from Atlanta (ABC, 8pm)-
Illinois v. Missouri from St. Louis (ESPN, 8:30pm) - Mark Jones, Bob Davie
Sunday 8/31
Kentucky @ Louisville (ESPN2, 3:30pm) - Joe Tessitore, Rod Gilmore
Monday 9/1
Fresno State @ Rutgers (ESPN, 4pm) - Dave Pasch, Andre Ware
Tennessee @ UCLA (ESPN, 8pm) - Mike Patrick, Todd Blackledge
8 Comments:
We don't have the 4 ABC crews listed but based on last year:
1. Nessler-Magurie-Griese
2. Musburger-Herbstreit
3. Franklin-Cunningham
4. Gannon-Norrie
Unfortunately for Brad with Gameday in Atlanta, and it being a night game, it will probably go to Brent and he will have to travel to one of the 3:30pm games.
I can't wait to get Mike Gleason's autograph in Oxford.
//ending sarcasm now
>>>Good old Pam is back on the early Big Ten contest.<<<
ugh.
i still think one reason teh big ten developed its own network was an attempt to prevent pam ward from ruining the broadcast of its games.
Aside from maybe Wayne Larrivee, I don't think the BTN announcers are great shakes themselves (Tom Hamilton on basketball?). I can't wait until Friday when Comcast grants its customers the one year of the BTN before it gets moved to a sports tier.
Just guessing, but I think it will probably be
Utah @ Michigan - Gannon/Norrie
USC @ Virginia - Nessler/Griese/Walrus
Michigan St @ Cal - Patrick/Blackledge or Franklin/Cunningham
Alabama v Clemson - Turdburger/Herbstreit
ABC got rid of Dan Fouts, didn't they? If not, he will probably do the MSU/Cal game.
I thought Jesse Palmer was more than capable and quite good on NFL games on Fox a couple of seasons ago, great addition for the Thursday night games.
Brad Nessler for Alabama vs. Clemson in Atlanta (his hometown), n'est pas?