Awful Announcing
"Incomplete data provides inaccurate information" is quite a stance to take on a tweet that was correct at the time.
The CBS pick of Alabama-Texas A&M happened before last weekend's Florida win, but it also likely has a lot to do with markets and viewers.
"For Olivia Dekker, Dusty Dvoracek and our entire crew, I'm Mark Jones. The Hokies get their first conference win of the year." "Oh, hang on!"
This marked the first recent Week 0 matchup between two Power Five teams, but the ratings success might mean it isn't the last one.
For the second time ever, ESPN will broadcast an ESPN3 feed of announcers commenting on a college football game from the Goodyear Blimp.
After time in jail over burglaries to fuel an opioid addiction, Leaf has gotten clean and started working in the sports media. He worked for the Pac-12 Networks and Sirius XM last year, and now he'll be calling college football games for ESPN.
Huard most recently worked with Bob Wischusen and Allison Williams on ESPN's fifth-listed team.
The Longhorns haven't had a home game in ABC's Saturday Night Football slot since Mack Brown was their head coach.
Both ESPN and Fox would likely be interested in Meyer if he did want to return to TV.
Fox's viewership for Ohio State-Michigan was a 26 percent bump over last year, and last year set a record as their best-watched regular-season game ever.
Lightning in the area wasn't close enough to shut down the game entirely, but it did lead to ESPN having to use cameras in safer spots.
Ratings for ABC's Saturday Night Football have been great so far, with Ohio State-Penn State one of their five best rated games ever.
Shroff's voice vanished from the telecast for several minutes.
Saban allowed ESPN to film an all-access series at training camp this year after years of turning those requests down, and also quickly apologized to ESPN's Maria Taylor after being rude during an interview.
Blackledge has been at ESPN since 2006 on this current stint, and previously worked for ESPN and ABC from 1994-1998.
