ESPN 2012 College Football Commentator Assignments

[KnightNoles]

http://espnmediazone.com/us/press-releases/2012/08/multiple-new-roles-highlight-espn-2012-college-football-commentator-assignments/

Game Telecast	Play-by-play	Analyst	Reporter
Saturday Night Football (on ABC)	Brent Musburger	Kirk Herbstreit	TBA
ESPN College Football Primetime (Saturday)	Brad Nessler	Todd Blackledge	Holly Rowe
ESPN Saturday Prime Time	Joe Tessitore	Matt Millen	Jessica Mendoza, Shelley Smith or Shannon Spake
ESPN2 College Football Primetime(Saturday)	Mark Jones	Brock Huard	Jessica Mendoza or Shelley Smith
ESPNU Saturday Prime Time	Clay Matvick	Matt Stinchcomb	Allison Williams
ESPN College Football Primetime(Thursday)	Rece Davis	Jesse Palmer and David Pollack	Samantha Steele
ESPN and ESPN2 Friday	Carter Blackburn	Rod Gilmore	Jemele Hill
ABC Saturday Afternoon	Sean McDonough	Chris Spielman	Quint Kessenich
ABC Saturday Afternoon	Mike Patrick	Ed Cunningham	Jeannine Edwards
ABC Saturday Afternoon	Bob Wischusen	Danny Kanell	Maria Taylor
ESPN College Football (Saturday afternoon)	Dave Pasch	Brian Griese	Jenn Brown
ESPN2 College Football (Saturday afternoon)	Beth Mowins	Joey Galloway
ESPNU Saturday Afternoon	Tom Hart	John Congemi
ESPNU Saturday Afternoon	Anish Shrof	Dan Hawkins
ESPNU Thursday (HBCU)	Joe Davis	Jay Walker
ESPNU Late Saturday (HBCU)	Joe Davis	Jay Walker
ESPN Radio	Bill Rosinski	David Norrie	Joe Schad
SEC Network (ESPN Regional Television syndicated games)	Dave Neal	Andre Ware	Cara Capuano
BIG EAST Network (ESPN Regional Television syndicated games)	Eamon McAnaney	David Diaz-Infante	Paul Carcaterra

New assignments include:

• Three new commentator teams will call ABC Saturday afternoon broadcasts:
  • Chris Spielman, an analyst on ESPN’s Saturday noon telecast, will pair up with Sean McDonough and reporter Quint Kessenich this season. Spielman and McDonough previously worked together on Saturday and Friday games from 2006-08.
  • Ed Cunningham, a Saturday afternoon game analyst for four years before taking on ESPN2’s Saturday night game last year, will work with Mike Patrickand reporter Jeannine Edwards.
  • Danny Kanell will move from an ESPNU night game to work with announcerBob Wischusen, who returns to the ABC Saturday afternoon game, and new reporter Maria Taylor.
  
  
• ESPN’s Thursday and Friday night games will also have familiar faces in new roles:
  • Analyst David Pollack and reporter Samantha Steele will join returning announcer Rece Davis and analyst Jesse Palmer on ESPN’s Thursday night game.
  • Carter Blackburn will move from Saturday games to call the weekly Friday series with returning analyst Rod Gilmore and new sideline reporter Jemele Hill. Hill has been an ESPN.com national columnist where she has also appeared on ESPN television programs since 2006.
  
  
• Joe Tessitore and Matt Millen will serve as the announcers for a new package of additional Saturday night games, primarily on ESPN. Shannon Spake or Shelley Smith will report from the sidelines. Tessitore previously worked Friday night games with Rod Gilmore while Matt Millen was the analyst on Saturday afternoon ABC games with Sean McDonough.
• Each of the ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNU Saturday noon telecasts will include new pairings:
  • Brian Griese and reporter Jenn Brown will join returning commentator Dave Pasch on ESPN’s noon game. Last year, Griese was the analyst on the ESPNU Saturday night telecast and Brown was the reporter on the Thursday ESPN College Football Primetime series.
  • New analyst Joey Galloway, a former Ohio State and NFL veteran wide receiver, will call ESPN2’s weekly noon series with returning commentatorBeth Mowins.
  • The new announce team of Tom Hart and analyst John Congemi will work the ESPNU noon telecast. Congemi previously called ESPN Regional Television’s BIG EAST Network games and Hart is new to ESPN.
  
  
• ESPN2 and ESPNU Saturday night telecasts will include analysts in new roles:
  • Brock Huard, who worked select ESPN and ABC Saturday games last season, will pair up with Mark Jones on a weekly ESPN2 prime-time game.
  • Matt Stinchcomb, an ESPNU studio analyst last year, will move to the ESPNU prime-time game with Clay Matvick and reporter Allison Williams.

[NAHSTE]

-Good to see Tessitore get the upgrade after he called so many awesome Friday night games last season, but pairing him with Millen is just cruel.

-Happy to see Pam Ward gone, but unfortunately Chris Spielman has been moved to a higher profile game. I will have to make note of that in order to comply with my personal policy to avoid games he is calling like the plague.

-Interesting to see Joey Galloway's name on there. I had no idea he was even in broadcasting these days, never heard him speak in his playing days. Looks like he's doing the shit Big Ten noon timeslot on espn2. He better brush up on his Northwestern depth chart.

- David Pollack is solid. He brings a nice tolerable presence to round out the Rece Davis/Jesse Palmer Thursday crew.

[EmpireWF]

Samantha Steele

[Matt]

I like Danny Kanel. He tells it like it is. Something you don't hear much on espn.

[Chrispy]

my boy David Pollack and Samantha Steele

[Senser81]

-Happy to see Pam Ward gone, but unfortunately Chris Spielman has been moved to a higher profile game. I will have to make note of that in order to comply with my personal policy to avoid games he is calling like the plague.

Listening to Spielman announce a college football game is like running into Buzz Killington at a party or reading a MrBill posting. Total downer.

[JimLeavy59]

Off topic but with these different college football commentators EA couldn't of bothered to put another crew in NCAA 13?

[NAHSTE]

Off topic but with these different college football commentators EA couldn't of bothered to put another crew in NCAA 13?

That would require them adding lines of audio to the game for the first time since 2002.