College football announcers, they’re just like us!
On Saturday, the No. 2 Indiana Hoosiers survived a comeback scare against the Penn State Nittany Lions, keeping their undefeated season alive and breaking Fox announcer Gus Johnson.
Down 24-20 with 40 seconds remaining, Hoosiers quarterback Fernando Mendoza found wide receiver Omar Cooper, Jr., in the back of the end zone for a touchdown that has to be seen to be believed. Somehow, a leaping Cooper just barely dragged one foot inbounds to secure the game-winning score.
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— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) November 8, 2025
College football fans everywhere went wild. The same goes for ESPN on ABC college football announcers Kirk Herbstreit and Chris Fowler, whose live reaction was shared on social media afterward.
The two announcers are shown watching the touchdown from their ABC booth for the game between No. 8 BYU and No. 9 Texas Tech. As Cooper hauls in the catch, they’re first shown in disbelief, then in awe upon seeing the replay. Herbstreit then immediately grabbed his phone to tell his son to post about it on social media. It was a sequence of events that many college football admirers also found themselves doing in the immediate moments following the play.
“This might be the catch of the year so far,” wrote Herbstreit in the post. He isn’t kidding.
About Sean Keeley
Along with writing for Awful Announcing and The Comeback, Sean is the Managing Editor for Comeback Media. Previously, he created the Syracuse blog Troy Nunes Is An Absolute Magician and wrote 'How To Grow An Orange: The Right Way to Brainwash Your Child Into Rooting for Syracuse.' He has also written non-Syracuse-related things for SB Nation, Curbed, and other outlets. He currently lives in Seattle where he is complaining about bagels. Send tips/comments/complaints to sean@thecomeback.com.