College football on television
College football on television includes the broad- and cablecasting of
College football games have been broadcast since
Coverage is dependent on negotiations between the broadcaster and the college football conference or team. The televised games may change from year-to-year depending on which teams are having a strong season, although some traditional
Universities found to have seriously violated NCAA rules have occasionally been penalized with a "television ban"; the effect can equal that of the "death penalty". The sanction is rarely applied except for the most egregious of circumstances, such as the Southern Methodist University football scandal.
History
Prior to television
College football games have been broadcast on radio since
Prior to that, various other means of communication were used. For example, in 1911, more than 1,000 people gathered in downtown
Early televised broadcasts
The
By 1950, a small number of football schools, including Penn (
For the
The NCAA believed that broadcasting one game a week would prevent further controversy while limiting any decrease in attendance. However, the
Bowl games were always exempt from the NCAA's television regulations, and the games' organizers were free to sign rights deals with any network. Mizlou Television Network, for instance, carried many of the bowl games (mostly lower-end bowls) despite not holding any regular season rights.
Decentralization
On June 27, 1984, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in NCAA v. Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma that the NCAA's television plan violated the Sherman Antitrust Act. As a result, individual schools and athletic conferences were freed to negotiate contracts on their own behalf. The year after the Supreme Court decision, nearly 200 games were televised, compared to the previous year's 89.[12] College football's television ratings slumped due to market saturation, and the price of a 30-second advertisement plunged from $57,000 in 1983 to $15,000 in 1984, while the combined take from network television fell more than 60 percent.[13] Despite the monetary suffering of the universities, the additional coverage had a positive impact for fans of college football. "Everyone talks about money, but no one seems to care about the football fan. He is the one who benefited from deregulation. And he isn't complaining", said Chuck Neinas, the former commissioner of the Big Eight Conference.[14] Together with the growth of cable television, this ruling resulted in the explosion of broadcast options currently available.
However, in the immediate wake of the ruling, most schools still decided to jointly negotiate their television contracts through the now-defunct College Football Association.[15] The Big Ten Conference and Pacific-10 Conference were not members of the CFA, opting to negotiate their own TV deals.[15]
Effects of television exposure
Television exposure has been used as a selling point in recruiting high school athletes. "We’re recruiting all over the country, and it's nice to be able to go in someone's home and say, ‘You can turn on the TV and watch the Buckeyes six to eight times a year", said former Ohio State head coach John Cooper.[14]
Television money and generous donors have allowed universities to provide modern facilities and luxurious amenities to college football teams. The Darrell K Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium at the University of Texas offers fans the opportunity to lease suites for $88,000 a year. The suites include theater-style seats, televisions, kitchenettes, and bars. The athletes ride to practice in chartered buses and dress beneath a three-dimensional 20-foot lighted longhorn in a locker room that includes a nutrition center, players’ lounge, and "state-of-the-art" ventilation system.[16]
Nationally televised games also brought new notoriety, revenue, and growth for leagues that had rarely appeared on television. As the cable networks grew and expanded, they sought more games to fill time. Former Mid-American Conference (MAC) Commissioner Rick Chryst attributes his league's expansion to a deal that put several MAC games per year on ESPN.[14]
In the 1950s, conventional wisdom suggested that television allowed football fans to watch their favorite teams for free from the comfort of their own homes, and this was to blame for falling attendance. A 1948 study conducted by the Crossley Corporation at the NCAA's request found that fans thought watching televised games was equal or superior to watching from the stands. In 1950, a study by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago said that attendance at college football games would have been 40 percent higher if no games had been televised.
The modern era
When Notre Dame left the CFA to sign
One of the most significant side-effects of the changes in television policy since 1991 has been the sharp decrease in
The pursuit of television money has provided financial independence to many big-time university athletic programs, since they can independently auction their "product" to the highest bidder. Some universities have limited authority over the athletic directors and coaches. In 2009, Florida President
Television and cable networks control the schedule of football games. ESPN broadcasts nationally televised college football games on Thursday nights each week, making it the college equivalent of the NFL's Monday Night Football.[24] The energy and excitement of such an atmosphere generally benefits the home teams, which have a winning record on Thursday nights.[25] The midweek games are scheduled with no consideration of academics, rest, and recovery for athletes and university logistical issues such as competition for parking between faculty, students, and fans.[26] For example, the logistical issues are such a problem for the University of Georgia that midweek home games are forbidden.[27] However, most coaches are happy to tackle the logistical issues for the sake of TV scheduling and money.
In the 2010s, networks began experimenting with new technologies to expand beyond the standard two-dimensional television system. ESPN 3D carried a number of games in 3D television during its lifetime, beginning in 2011 and ending with the channel's shutdown in 2013; a lack of 3D television adoption was blamed for the program's failure. Fox began a series of virtual reality broadcasts in 2016, which were made available to dedicated VR headsets and smartphones with stereoscopes; these were discontinued by 2018.[28]
Broadcast rights
U.S. Networks
ABC
ABC has been airing college football since 1950. Chris Schenkel and Bud Wilkinson were the number one broadcast team through 1973. Keith Jackson, its best-known college football play-by-play man, announced games from 1966 through 2005 on ABC (and for 14 years before that for various outlets), and was considered by many to be "the voice of college football." Jackson was ABC's lead play-by play man for 25 years, from 1974 through 1998. He originally was to retire after the 1999 Fiesta Bowl, but agreed to remain on a more restricted schedule (primarily broadcasting West Coast games) and remained with ABC through the 2006 Rose Bowl.
In 1954, 1960 and 1961, and then from 1966 through 1981, ABC was the exclusive network home for regular season NCAA football telecasts. In 1982 and 1983, ABC and
NBC
NBC broadcast the
NBC has an exclusive contract with
CBS
CBS contracted with the NCAA to broadcast regular season games in 1962 and 1963. CBS shared the NCAA package with ABC in 1982 and 1983 and was also required to locally broadcast four
Fox
Although its
On July 24, 2017, the Big Ten Conference announced that Fox had acquired the conference's Tier 1 football rights under a six-year deal beginning in the 2017 season, giving Fox first choice of Big Ten games over co-rightsholder ESPN.[33]
The CW
In July 2023, Raycom Sports announced that it had sold a package of Atlantic Coast Conference broadcasts to The CW, consisting of 13 football games, 28 men's basketball games, and 9 women's basketball games per-season. The CW aired its first ACC broadcast on September 9, 2023, featuring Cincinnati at Pittsburgh.
In November of 2023, The CW announced a partnership with Barstool Sports to televise the Arizona Bowl, which had been exclusive to Barstool’s social media platforms since 2021, beginning with the 2023 edition of the contest.[34]
PBS
Cable stations
In the wake of the 1984 Supreme Court ruling that broke the NCAA monopoly, ESPN immediately began airing regular season games live, starting with a contest between Pittsburgh and BYU on September 1, 1984.[37] The network aired a 48-game package that year.[38] ESPN2 began broadcasting live games in 1994, ESPNU began in 2005.
ABC gets first choice of games over the ESPN networks, especially from the American Athletic Conference, Big Ten, and ACC, because ABC and ESPN are owned by the same company. Many marquee games will still air on ESPN so they can air in prime-time, without being limited to regional viewers or GamePlan subscribers, but not giving non-cable owners a chance to see the games (unlike the NFL, games on ESPN are not required to be simulcast on over-the-air stations in local markets). This also occurs because CBS, not ABC, owns broadcast TV rights to the SEC, and thus only the ESPN networks can air the second and third-choice games (normally on Saturday nights); CBS having made the first pick. Likewise, FSN is the cable partner for Big 12 and Pac-12 games, and so only ABC can air games from those conference packages (it normally has the first pick), aside from a handful of games from each conference that ESPN purchases each year.
FSN sublicensed games to TBS from 2002 to 2006 from the Big 12 and Pac-10 Conferences and to Versus from 2007 to 2010. In 2011, FSN moved those games to FX. Joining the Big 12 and Pac-12 Conferences on FX will be Conference USA. Those games moved to Fox Sports 1 upon the channel's launch in 2013.
had previously aired HBCU games in 2012 and 2013 before dropping them.In the early 2000s, entire networks devoted to college sports, including college football, began to appear.
Regional cable networks have long devoted coverage to one or two conferences. The Pac-12 and Big 12 have had deals with
Some Division III college football games are locally shown live or on tape on public-access television channels in the community in which the home team's campus is located.
Syndication
In addition,
Canada
Canadian university football has had some national coverage of regular season games by terrestrial networks over the last 30 years, but the vast majority of broadcasts are on community channels, community TV networks or sports specialty channels. This is in part due to the sport's structure in Canada, where it is divided strictly into regional conferences and inter-conference play is much rarer than in the United States, reducing the sport's national appeal.
Coverage of U.S. college football is available to an extent in Canada; individual U.S. stations are available over-the-air and on television providers, Big Ten Network and CBS Sports Network can be carried by Canadian television providers, while the networks of TSN often simulcast games aired by ESPN networks (ESPN owns a minority stake in TSN).
Two of the country's four conferences (OUA and Canada West) distribute telecasts via
Ontario
In the early years of TSN during the late 1980s and early 1990s, the network broadcast some regular season games along with the OUAA or OQIFC finals.
Hamilton-based
A series of community TV stations carry games throughout Ontario. Rogers outlets in Ottawa, Guelph, Kitchener-Waterloo and London broadcast games.
Quebec (and national Francophone)
Previously, RDS broadcast a game of the week package during the regular season. The rights for the Uteck Bowl, Mitchell Bowl and Vanier Cup belonged to RDS in 2011 and 2012. For 2013 onward, Radio Canada carried the national playoffs nationwide.
Atlantic Canada
In the
Western Canada
In 2017, Canada West will broadcast a game of the week on SaskTel throughout Saskatchewan. Games produced by SaskTel will be shared by Telus in BC and Alberta and Bell-MTS in Manitoba to 1.5 million customers.
In the early years of TSN during the late 1980s and early 1990s, the network broadcast some regular season games along with the Canada West final.
Games in
Since 2010, the games have been available to 790,000 Shaw Direct subscribers nationally on channels 299 and 499.
In 2012, Shaw simulcast the games in anamorphic HD for free access on HD 303 on their systems.
Shaw lost the rights to the Canada West Championship when the conference reached an agreement with MRX and Associates to broadcast the final on TSN in 2011 and 2012. Shaw regained the Hardy Trophy no later than the 2014 season, after TSN abandoned Canadian university football broadcasts.
Canada West renewed a three-year agreement with Shaw TV before the 2012 season. In 2015, Canada West expanded its coverage nationwide with an agreement with Global Television Network, a sister company to Shaw.[45]
There were also local broadcasts produced for Manitoba Bisons home games by Shaw TV Winnipeg, and Regina Rams games by Access.
Shaw also produced a weekly, 30-minute CIS highlight and features show called the Krown Canadian University Countdown.
National (anglophone)
The Vanier Cup has had a wide and varied history on Canadian TV.
In the early 1970s, CBC Television broadcast the game, eventually returning decades later to carry the 55th Vanier Cup in 2019.[46] CBC Sports also simulcast American college football broadcasts on a sporadic basis from 1966 to 2005. From the mid-1970s through to the mid-1980s the CTV Network broadcast the national final. TSN gained broadcast rights to the final in the late 1980s. On occasion, the network would broadcast a conference game nationally, but would mainly stick with conference finals, national semifinals (a.k.a. bowl games) and the national final.
TSN lost the rights to The Score in 2006 and 2007 for national bowl games and the Vanier Cup, but regained them between the 2008 and 2012 seasons. In the latter five seasons, TSN used its exclusive rights deal with the Canadian Football League to cross-promote the Vanier Cup as part of a broader championship weekend with the Grey Cup, the CFL championship; the cross-promotion was a success, with over 500,000 viewers watching the 2011 and 2012 Vanier Cups.[47]
In May 2013, CIS, since renamed U Sports, signed a six-year agreement with
Conference affiliations by home team
- All conferences, games and teams are Bowl Subdivision teams unless otherwise noted.
Broadcast network
- ABC: ACC, American, Big 12, SEC, championship games (ACC, American, Big 12 and SEC), Citrus Bowl, LA Bowl and Las Vegas Bowl
- CBS: Big Ten including championship game in even-numbered years, Mountain West, Commander-in-Chief's Trophy games (include Army-Navy), and Sun Bowl
- Fox: Big 12, Big Ten, Mountain West, championship games (Big Ten in odd-numbered years, and Mountain West) and Holiday Bowl
- NBC: Big Ten, Notre Dame
- The CW: ACC and Arizona Bowl
Cable/regional/online
- ACC Network: ACC
- Big Ten Network: Big Ten
- CBS Sports Network: Army, C-USA, MAC, Mountain West, Navy, UConn, C-USA Championship Game and Hula Bowl
- ESPN networks (ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPNews, ESPN3 and ESPN+): ACC, American, Big 12, Big Ten, C-USA, MAC, SEC, Sun Belt, UMass, championship games (MAC and Sun Belt) and most bowl games including the entirety of the College Football Playoff
- Fox Sports 1: Big 12, Big Ten and Mountain West
- Fox Sports 2: Mountain West
- NFL Network: American, MAC, Sun Belt, East–West Shrine Bowl, NFLPA Collegiate Bowl and Senior Bowl
- Peacock: Big Ten, Notre Dame
- SEC Network: SEC
- Spectrum OC16: Hawaii
FCS and others
- ABC: Celebration Bowl (FCS) and FCS Championship Game
- (D-II, including league championship)
- CBS Sports Network: NEC (FCS)
- Cox Sports Television: Southland (FCS)[50]
- ESPN networks (ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPNews, ESPN3 and ESPN+): SWAC Championship Game, FCS tournament, Gulf South (D-II), D-II Championship Game, Secretaries Cup (D-III), D-III Championship Game, KCAC (NAIA), NAIA Championship.
- FloSports: CAA (FCS) and SIAC (D-II)
- HBCU Go: SWAC (FCS)
- Image Video: Mount Union (D-III)
- NBC: Bayou Classic (FCS)
- NEC Front Row: NEC (FCS)
- NFL Network: HBCU Legacy Bowl (FCS)
- SPORTSfever Television Network: Morgan State (FCS), PSAC (D-II), Penn–Mansfield sprint game (sui generis)
In contrast to the National Football League, which uses the visiting team's conference affiliation to determine who broadcasts afternoon games, college football telecasts are assigned based on the home team's conference affiliation.
Canada
There are four conferences in Canada, plus a national playoff. Regional and national coverage in 2019:
- SaskTel and Telus TV/Bell-MTS: Canada West (both regular season and Hardy Trophy)
- RSEQ, French-language coverage of the Vanier Cup
- Bell Alliant TV1: AUS
- )
- TSN: American college football broadcast simulcasts from the ESPN networks
CBS Sports Network is also available in Canada (the only cable sports service from the U.S. to be carried in the country), as are most U.S. broadcast networks. National semifinals and final managed by U Sports
Televised games
Annual televised games
Some games are traditionally played on a specific date (often a holiday), and are nationally televised every single year. These include:
- The Iron Bowl", has generally been the last game of the regular season. Since 2007, the game has been scheduled for either the Friday or Saturday after Thanksgiving.
- Notre Dame and Michigan – Played in September in all but six seasons since 1978. Every one of these games has been on national network television, except the 1980 game (won by Notre Dame, 29-27, on a game-ending 51-yard field goal by Harry Oliver). The 1982 showdown was the first night game in the history of Notre Dame Stadium, with the use of portable lights from Musco Lighting, and was televised in prime time on ABC. The 1988 and 1990 games at Notre Dame were prime time telecasts on CBS, with both won by Notre Dame. The 2011 game, the first night game ever at Michigan Stadium and won by Michigan, was televised nationally by ESPN. The 2014 game was the last of the annual series due to Notre Dame's current commitment to schedule five ACC schools each season, plus the Big Ten's move to a nine-game conference schedule starting in 2016. The teams played a one-off renewal, again in September, in 2018. As this game was at Notre Dame, it was televised nationally by NBC, which has had the contract to televise Notre Dame home games since 1991.
- Ohio State and Michigan – Also referred to as "The Game" is traditionally played the third Saturday of every November and broadcast on ABC through the 2016 season. With the Big Ten adding a bye week, the game was moved to the Saturday after Thanksgiving in 2010. Beginning with the 2017 season, Fox will broadcast the game on an (expected) annual basis.
- West Virginia's move to the Big 12 before the 2012 college football season.
- Tennessee vs. Alabama –Known as the "Third Saturday in October". This game has been played between the two schools on or around the same day of every year since 1901. Recently it has been either the third or fourth Saturday of October, depending on the calendar.
- Red River Shootout) – Played during the State Fair of Texasin Dallas on the second Saturday of October and broadcast on ABC. The 2009 game was moved back a week to the third Saturday in October, and the 2010 game was moved up to the first Saturday in October.
- USC–ND has had a national television audience every year since 1986, with the exception of 2002 when the game was a split-national telecast with Florida–Florida State.[56]Notre Dame hosts the game in odd years in mid-October, and USC hosts the game in even years on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. In the former case, NBC airs the game, while in the latter case, it is carried on the ESPN family of networks (ABC was the longtime carrier of games from Los Angeles, but in 2008 it aired on ESPN while ABC aired Oklahoma-Oklahoma State).
- Tallahasseeon and aired or ABC, ESPN, or ESPN2. In 2022, the game will air on Black Friday for the first time, in primetime.
- Texas A&M–Texas – Played on the day after Thanksgiving and televised annually on ABC through 2007. In 2008, Texas A&M vs. Texas was played on Thanksgiving night in Austin, and in 2009 was played on Thanksgiving night in College Station, with ESPN telecasting both games. The 2010 game in Austin was again played on Thanksgiving night. This annual game is no longer played following A&M's 2012 move to the Southeastern Conference.
- LSU and Arkansas – Known as "The Battle for the Golden Boot." Played on the day after Thanksgiving and broadcast on CBS from 1996 to 2008. The game was moved back a day to Saturday due to the Iron Bowl moving to the Friday slot for 2009 and 2010, but was broadcast by ESPN and CBS, respectively. CBS once again aired the game on the day after Thanksgiving in 2011, 2012 and 2013. LSU and Arkansas began playing earlier in November in 2014.
- LSU-Texas A&M - Now played on Thanksgiving weekend and televised by ESPN or ESPN2. The games in College Station in 2014 and 2016 were played on Thanksgiving night, owing to the Aggies' former tradition of playing Texas on Thanksgiving. LSU has refused to move the games in Baton Rouge to Thanksgiving (no game at Tiger Stadiumhas been played on a Thursday since 1973), keeping them on Saturday.
- Arkansas-Missouri - Known as the "Battle Line Rivalry", it has been played on the Friday after Thanksgiving since 2014 and televised by CBS.
- Army–Navy Game – generally played on the last weekend of the regular season and broadcast on CBS since 1996. Since 2009, the game has been played on the second Saturday in December, and is the only scheduled FBS game that weekend except 2020.
- Kentucky–Louisville - Known as the "Governor's Cup", this game is played at the end of the season. The in-state-rivals formerly opened the season against each other, but since Louisville joined the ACC in 2014, the game has been held on the last week before the ACC and SEC championship games. This specific weekend features three other ACC–SEC in-state rivalries in Clemson–South Carolina, Florida–Florida State, and Georgia–Georgia Tech.
- during even-numbered years.
- ESPN Plus before 2007 and was simulcast on Mtn. and CBS Sports Networkfrom 2007 to 2010. The game returned to the ESPN family of networks beginning in 2011, and could be seen on one of the Fox family of networks in even-numbered years. For the 2011 and 2012 seasons the game took place during the third week of the season. From 2013 forward, the game takes place between September 29 and October 5, depending on what day the first Sunday in October falls on.
- black college football classic, and until the game moved from NBC in 2015, was the only non-FBS college football game to air regularly on a nationwide broadcast television network.
Bowl games
- Rose Parade; however, after joining the Bowl Championship Series, the 2002 game was played January 3 and the 2006 game was played January 4 due to the Rose Bowl being the national championship game. NBC was the longtime home of the Rose Bowl until the late 1980s, when ABC took over. ABC's final Rose Bowl was the 2010 game, and the network aired the BCS Championship Game from the Rose Bowl on January 7, 2010. ESPN began televising the game in 2011.
- Orange Bowl– Traditionally held on New Year's Day. It was a New Year's night staple for many years on NBC, with NBC's last telecast being the 1995 game. CBS aired the game for three years, followed by ABC for eight years, and Fox for four years, with 2010 being the last Orange Bowl to air on Fox. ESPN began televising the game in 2011.
- Sugar Bowl – Traditionally held on New Year's Day. Its traditional time slot was early afternoon and was first telecast by the DuMont Network in 1953 and then by ABC from 1954 to 1958. From 1959 until 1969 NBC broadcast the game as a part of its New Year's Day trio of the Sugar, Rose and then Orange. ABC returned in 1970 and for 1972 convinced the Sugar Bowl committee to move the game to primetime on New Year's Eve where it remained through 1975. ABC aired the game up until 2006 when Fox purchased the rights for the BCS Bowl games through 2010. ESPN began televising the game in 2011.
- Cotton Bowl Classic – Traditionally held on New Year's Day. CBS was the long-time home of the Cotton Bowl Classic, airing it up through 1992, and again from 1996 to 1998. NBC aired the game from 1993 to 1995, and Fox aired the game from 1999 to 2014. The game has been played on January 2 multiple times in recent years, as was the case in both 2009 and 2010. The 2011 game aired in primetime for the first time ever, on Friday, January 7. ESPN has aired the game since January 15 as part of the College Football Playoff package (the Cotton Bowl is a CFP semifinal once every three years and is an "access" bowl in the other two).
BCS games
The Bowl Championship Series, which operated from 1998 through the 2013 season, was driven from the start by television revenue. In 2007, the Fox Broadcasting Company started broadcasting all the BCS games with the exception of the Rose Bowl. ABC previously aired two full cycles of the BCS between 1998 and 2006. Before this, CBS aired the Bowl Coalition and the Bowl Alliance, with the exception of the Sugar Bowl from 1995 to 1997. The Rose Bowl aired on ABC from 1989 to 2010. All BCS games shifted to cable in 2010–11 as ESPN began a four-year deal.
College Football Playoff
The College Football Playoff replaced the BCS starting with the 2014 season. ESPN acquired rights to the entire CFP package, consisting of six bowl games and the College Football Playoff National Championship, through the 2025 season.
Announcers
National announcers
ACC Network (2023 Season)[57]
- ABC Saturday Night Football)
- Sean McDonough/Greg McElroy/Molly McGrath (ESPN College Football Saturday Primetime)
- Joe Tessitore/Jesse Palmer/Katie George (ABC/ESPN)
- Dave Pasch/Dusty Dvoracek/Tom Luginbill (ABC/ESPN)
- Bob Wischusen/Robert Griffin III/Kris Budden (ABC/ESPN)
- Mark Jones/Louis Riddick/Quint Kessenich (ABC/ESPN)
- Dave Flemming/Brock Osweiler/Kayla Burton (ABC/ESPN)
- Matt Barrie/Dan Mullen/Harry Lyles Jr. (ESPN College Football Thursday Primetime)
- Anish Shroff/Andre Ware/Paul Carcaterra (ESPN/ESPN2 College Football Friday Primetime)
- Roy Philpott/Roddy Jones/Taylor McGregor (ESPN2/ESPNU)
- Beth Mowins/Kirk Morrison/Stormy Buonantony (ESPN2/ESPNU)
- Brian Custer/Rod Gilmore/Lauren Sisler (ESPN2/ESPNU)
- John Schriffen/Rocky Boiman/Dawn Davenport (ESPN2/ESPNU)
- Tom Hart/Jordan Rodgers/Cole Cubelic (SEC Network Primetime)
- Dave Neal/Derek Mason/Taylor Davis (SEC Network)
- Taylor Zarzour/Matt Stinchcomb/Alyssa Lang (SEC Network)
- Wes Durham/Tim Hasselbeck/Taylor Tannebaum (ACC Network Primetime)
- Chris Cotter/Mark Herzlich/Sherree Burruss (ACC Network)
- Jorge Sedano/Orlando Franklin/Marilyn Payne (ACC Network)
- Courtney Lyle/Hutson Mason (ESPN2/ESPNU)
- Jay Alter/Rene Ingoglia (ESPN2/ESPNU)
- Clay Matvick/Aaron Murray (ESPN2/ESPNU)
- Drew Carter/Dustin Fox (ESPN2/ESPNU)
FOX/FS1/BTN (2023 Season)[58][59]
- Gus Johnson/Joel Klatt/Jenny Taft (Fox Big Noon Saturday)
- Jason Benetti/Brock Huard/Allison Williams (Fox)
- Tim Brando/Spencer Tillman/Josh Sims (Fox)
- Cory Provus/Jake Butt/Brooke Fletcher (BTN)
- Mark Followill/Connor Onion/Matt Millen/Elise Menaker (BTN)
- Lisa Byington/Jason Ross Jr./Anthony Herron/Meghan McKeown (BTN)
- Jeff Levering/Mark Helfrich (FS1)
- Alex Faust/Petros Papadakis (FS1)
- Eric Collins/Devin Gardner (FS1)
CBS/CBS Sports Network (2023 Season)[60]
- Brad Nessler/Gary Danielson/Jenny Dell (CBS)
- Tom McCarthy/Jason McCourty and/or Ross Tucker/Tiffany Blackmon (CBS)
- Rich Waltz/Aaron Taylor/Amanda Guerra (CBS/CBS Sports Network)
- Chris Lewis/Ross Tucker/Justin Walters (CBS)
NBC (2023 Season)[61]
- Noah Eagle/Todd Blackledge/Kathryn Tappen (Big Ten Saturday Night)
- Jac Collinsworth/Jason Garrett/Zora Stephenson (Notre Dame Football on NBC)
CW (2023 Season)
- Tom Werme, James Bates, Treavor Scales / Tabitha Turner
Bowl announcers
Rose Bowl
Sugar Bowl
Orange Bowl
Fiesta Bowl
Cotton Bowl Classic
Holiday Bowl
Canada
Krown Produce Canada West Football on Shaw
- Jim Mullin/Laurence Nixon or Jesse Lumsden or Daved Benefield
OUA University Rush on The Score
- Simon Bennett/Donnovan Bennett
RSEQ football sur SRC
- Jean St-Onge/Jacques Dussault
Subway AUS Football on Eastlink TV
CIS on TSN
SIC sur RDS
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