College Football: Week 10 announcer pairings
By Tim Kaiser
Check out which announcer pairings will be calling the biggest and best games, as the college football season enters its tenth week.
Week 10 will build to a crescendo on Saturday night. There are only two games that feature a pair of teams in the freshly released College Football Playoff rankings, and they both kickoff at 8 p.m. ET. ESPN and CBS will have their top announcer pairings going head-to-head in prime time for the first time this season.
For the second time in three weeks, top-ranked Alabama will be showcased on College GameDay and the SEC Game of the Week on CBS. Alabama-LSU is habitually must-see TV and with the limited competition this week, it’s not surprising in the least that the two biggest shows in college football descended on Baton Rouge for the weekend.
CBS will have their first of two doubleheaders on Saturday. Alabama-LSU will serve as the nightcap with the normal SEC on CBS announcer lineup of Verne Lundquist and Gary Danielson in the booth and Allie LaForce on the sideline. Longtime ESPN announcer Brad Nessler, who is Lundquist’s heir to the lead play-by-play gig after this season, will get some SEC on CBS reps in the afternoon half of the day-night doubleheader. The CBS B-team will have No. 11 Florida at Arkansas.
ESPN’s top crew meanwhile will jump on a plane after GameDay to what has somehow become the center of the universe in 2016, Ohio. No. 6 Ohio State will try to ease Indians fans pain from extending the longest championship drought in professional sports in heartbreaking fashion with No. 10 Nebraska in town. Unfortunately for the people of Ohio, the last Buckeyes game the announcer team of Fowler, Herbstreit, and Ponder worked was their upset at Penn State.
Saturday
No. 8 Wisconsin at Northwestern- 12 p.m. ET
- Network: ABC
- Play-by-Play: Bob Wischusen
- Color Commentator: Brock Huard
- Sideline Reporter: Allison Williams
No. 7 Louisville at Boston College- 12 p.m. ET
- Network: ESPN2
- Play-by-Play: Jason Benetti
- Color Commentator: Kelly Stouffer
- Sideline Reporter: Paul Carcaterra
No. 4 Texas A&M at Mississippi State- 12 p.m. ET
- Network: SEC Network
- Play-by-Play: Dave Neal
- Color Commentator: Matt Stinchcomb
- Sideline Reporter: Olivia Harlan
TCU at No. 17 Baylor- 3:30 p.m. ET
- Network: FOX
- Play-by-Play: Gus Johnson
- Color Commentator: Joel Klatt
- Sideline Reporter: Shannon Spake
No. 11 Florida at Arkansas– 3:30 p.m. ET
- Network: CBS
- Play-by-Play: Brad Nessler
- Color Commentator: Aaron Taylor
- Sideline Reporter: John Schriffen
Syracuse at No. 2 Clemson- 3:30 p.m. ET
- Network: ABC/ESPN2
- Play-by-Play: Dave Pasch
- Color Commentator: Greg McElroy
- Sideline Reporter: Tom Luginbill
Maryland at No. 3 Michigan- 3:30 p.m. ET
- Network: ESPN
- Play-by-Play: Steve Levy
- Color Commentator: Brian Griese
- Sideline Reporter: Todd McShay
Oregon at USC- 7 p.m. ET
- Network: ESPN
- Play-by-Play: Joe Tessitore
- Color Commentator: Todd Blackledge
- Sideline Reporter: Holly Rowe
Georgia at Kentucky- 7:30 p.m. ET
- Network: SEC Network
- Play-by-Play: Brent Musburger
- Color Commentator: Jesse Palmer
- Sideline Reporter: Kaylee Hartung
No. 1 Alabama at No. 13 LSU– 8 p.m. ET
- Network: CBS
- Play-by-Play: Verne Lundquist
- Color Commentator: Gary Danielson
- Sideline Reporter: Allie LaForce
No. 10 Nebraska at No. 6 Ohio State- 8 p.m. ET
- Network: ABC
- Play-by-Play: Chris Fowler
- Color Commentator: Kirk Herbstreit
- Sideline Reporter: Samantha Ponder
No. 5 Washington at California- 10:30 p.m. ET
- Network: ESPN
- Play-by-Play: Mark Jones
- Color Commentator: Rod Gilmore
- Sideline Reporter: Quint Kessenich
Announcer pairings courtesy of Daniel Ormsby of Eye on Sky and Air Sports.