College Football
WEEK # 11
- Anish Shroff, an ESPNer, has North Texas @ Southern Methodist this weekend. He is also the fulltime radio voice for the struggling Carolina Panthers.
- Tim Brando and longtime partner Spencer Tillman are continuing along with Fox. This Fall, they seems to spend many weekends calling games in the states of Washington, Oregon, Utah and California.
- Matt Barrie is fine in the ESPN studio. His play-by-play is fair.
- I missed the fact that I wasn’t paying full attention when Tony Roberts passed. Strongly associated with Notre Dame, he passed on August 26th at age 94. Tony called the Irish games for 26 seasons beginning in 1980.
Miami vs. Florida State
Saturday afternoon the Miami Hurricanes face the number #4 Florida State Seminoles. Each school is still visibly rebuilding. In the 90s, they were bitter football. The Seminoles are tantalizingly close to the top. They haven’t been this tight, for matter a significant number of years.
On play-by-play, Jeff Culhane succeeded the legendary Gene Deckerhoff who retired after some four decades at FSU. Gene maintained a unique style. It was tough for Gene not to resist rooting. Yet when the opponent made a pretty play, he didn’t hold back either. The game was always fun.
Joe Zagacki is U Miami’s radio football and basketball play-by-player. The school had dumped its unmighty basketball program in 1971 and restarted it in 1985. Joe did color and studio work on one of the big AM stations then like WIOD. Through the years, Zagacki has won over the South Florida sports time base. He’s well prepared and descriptive. Time in grade has helped Joe. After a couple of decades, he’s up there with the market’s top historical five: Hank Goldberg, Eric Reid, Rick Weaver, Jimmy Cifalo and Joe Zagacki (top of mind). He’ll tell you that he spews game broadcasts the same way each week as “Therapeutic”.
(Joe Zagacki – above – on his way advancing, winning a regional in the 2023 Tournament)
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7
Central Michigan @ Western Michigan
7:00 PM
ESPNU
Clay Matvick, Rene Ingoglia
Ball State @ Northern Illinois
7:00 PM
CBSSN
Alex Del Barrio, Brock Vereen
Ohio @ Buffalo
7:30 PM
ESPN2
Jay Alter, Tom Luginbill
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8
Bowling Green @ Kent State
7:00 PM
CBSSN
Carter Blackburn, Donte Whitner
Eastern Michigan @ Toledo
7:30 PM
ESPN2
John Schriffen, Rocky Boiman
Akron @ Miami (OH)
7:30 PM
ESPNU
Mike Corey, Dustin Fox
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9
Virginia @ 11 Louisville
7:30 PM
ESPN
Matt Barrie, Dan Mullen
North Texas @ Southern Methodist
9:00 PM
ESPN2
Anish Shroff, Andre Ware
Wyoming @ UNLV
10:45 PM
FS1
Alex Faust, Petros Papadakis
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11
Georgia Tech @ Clemson
12:00 PM
ABC
Mark Jones, Louis Riddick, Quint Kessenich
#3 Michigan @ #10 Penn State
12:00 PM
FOX
Gus Johnson, Joel Klatt
#8 Alabama @ Kentucky
12:00 PM
ESPN
Joe Tessitore, Jordan Rodgers
Tulsa @ #23 Tulane
12:00 PM
ESPN2
Roy Philpott, Roddy Jones
Texas Tech @ #16 Kansas
12:00 PM
FS1
Eric Collins, Devin Gardner
Yale @ Princeton
12:00 PM
ESPNU
Eric Frede, Jack Ford
Vanderbilt @ South Carolina
12:00 PM
SECN
Taylor Zarzour, Matt Stinchcomb
Indiana @ Illinois
12:00 PM
BTN
Connor Onion, Matt Millen
Virginia Tech @ Boston College
12:00 PM
ACCN
Jorge Sedano, Orlando Franklin
Holy Cross @ Army
12:00 PM
CBSSN
Chris Lewis, Ross Tucker
Maryland @ Nebraska
12:00 PM
Peacock
Paul Burmeister, Kyle Rudolph
Temple @ South Florida
12:00 PM
ESPN+
Ted Emrich, Patrick Murray
Old Dominion @ Liberty
1:00 PM
ESPN+
Matt Warner, Joe Jauch
N.C. State @ Wake Forest
2:00 PM
CW
Tom Werme, James Bates
#21 Arizona @ Colorado
2:00 PM
P12N
Ted Robinson, Yogi Roth
Appalachian State @ Georgia State
2:00 PM
ESPN+
Matt Stewart, Sam Crenshaw
Memphis @ Charlotte
2:00 PM
ESPN+
Richard Cross, Taylor McHargue
Baylor @ #25 Kansas State
3:00 PM
ESPN+
Noah Reed, Barrett Brooks
Miami @ #4 Florida State
3:30 PM
ABC
Sean McDonough, Greg McElroy
#13 Tennessee @ #14 Missouri
3:30 PM
CBS
Brad Nessler, Gary Danielson
#18 Utah @ #5 Washington
3:30 PM
FOX
Jason Benetti, Brock Huard
Minnesota @ Purdue
3:30 PM
NBC
Jac Collinsworth, Jason Garrett
#15 Oklahoma State @ UCF
3:30 PM
ESPN
Mike Monaco, Robert Griffin III
Northwestern @ Wisconsin
3:30 PM
FS1
Chris Myers, Robert Smith
N.C. Central @ Howard
3:30 PM
ESPNU
Tiffany Greene, Jay Walker
Rutgers @ #22 Iowa
3:30 PM
BTN
Cory Provus, Jake Butt
Pittsburgh vs Syracuse (Yankee Stadium-NY)
3:30 PM
ACCN
Chris Cotter, Mark Herzlich
UAB @ Navy
3:30 PM
CBSSN
John Sadak, Randy Cross
Washington State @ California
4:00 PM
ESPN2
Beth Mowins, Kirk Morrison
Auburn @ Arkansas
4:00 PM
SECN
Dave Neal, Derek Mason
East Carolina @ Florida Atlantic
4:00 PM
ESPN+
James Westling, Leger Douzable
Stanford @ #12 Oregon State
5:30 PM
P12N
Roxy Bernstein, Max Browne
West Virginia @ #17 Oklahoma
7:00 PM
FOX
Jeff Levering, Mark Helfrich
#9 Ole Miss @ #2 Georgia
7:00 PM
ESPN
Chris Fowler, Kirk Herbstreit
Cincinnati @ Houston
7:00 PM
FS1
Alex Faust, Petros Papadakis
San Diego State @ Colorado State
7:00 PM
CBSSN
Dave Ryan, Malik Zaire
Georgia Southern @ Marshall
7:00 PM
NFLN
Jason Ross Jr., Tyoka Jackson
7Texas @ TCU
7:30 PM
ABC
Dave Pasch, Dusty Dvoracek, Tom Luginbill
Michigan State @ #1 Ohio State
7:30 PM
NBC
Noah Eagle, Todd Blackledge
Mississippi State @ Texas A&M
7:30 PM
ESPN2
Brian Custer, Rod Gilmore
Rice @ UTSA
7:30 PM
ESPNU
Drew Carter, Dustin Fox
Florida @ #19 LSU
7:30 PM
SECN
Tom Hart, Jordan Rodgers, Cole Cubelic
Duke @ 24 North Carolina
8:00 PM
ACCN
Wes Durham, Tim Hasselbeck
Arizona State @ UCLA
9:00 PM
P12N
JB Long, Lincoln Kennedy
New Mexico @ Boise State
10:00 PM
FS1
Guy Haberman, Charles Arbuckle
Iowa State @ BYU
10:15 PM
ESPN
Dave Flemming, Brock Osweiler
USC @ #6 Oregon
10:30 PM
FOX
Tim Brando, Spencer Tillman
Fresno State @ San Jose State
10:30 PM
CBSSN
Rich Waltz, Aaron Taylor
By David J. Halberstam 11/09/2023
