When Brent Musburger left ESPN earlier this year, it left an opening on the SEC Network. Musburger, Jesse Palmer and Kaylee Hartung formed the SEC Network primetime team for college football last week, but with Musburger and Hartung gone, it allows ESPN to bring together a new team. Tom Hart, Jordan Rodgers and Cole Cubelic will be the men who will call featured games on SEC Network.
Hart and Rodgers will be in the booth while Cubelic will be stationed on the field. Rodgers and Cubelic will be co-analysts on the broadcasts.
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For Rodgers, it’s a meteoric rise in his second year with SEC Network. Last year, he was both a studio and game analyst, but now he’ll be on the main football announce team. Asides from his years quarterbacking at Vanderbilt, Rodgers also appeared on The Bachelorette last year. It appeared that Rodgers was parlaying The Bachelorette to jump start a career in TV, but ESPN said it had been pursuing him prior to him joining the reality show.
Cubelic is an alumnus of Auburn and has been both an analyst on ESPN college football games as well as a local sports radio in Alabama.
Hart has called multiple sports for ESPN including college baseball, college basketball and college football. He’s also been utilized by ESPN Radio on MLB and NFL games. Hart has also worked for CBS Sports Network and Big Ten Network and called selected Atlanta Braves games.
The trio made their first appearance together during SEC Football Media Day on Cubelic’s radio show:
These three are now the NEW @SECNetwork PrimeTime Game Crew staring this fall and the announcement just came on @CubeShow FIRST pic.twitter.com/PXOw9FPWIT
— Arky Shea (@ArkyShea) July 11, 2017
Excited to join the @SECNetwork Prime Time crew this fall alongside @tom_hart & @JRodgers11 pic.twitter.com/hL4lDIGHyD
— Cole Cubelic (@colecubelic) July 11, 2017
Their first game assignment will be announced at a later date.
