ESPN announced its Week 4 college football broadcast assignments and commentator crews on Monday, which includes who will be on the call when the Kentucky Wildcats host the Ohio Bobcats at Kroger Field in Lexington Saturday.
The broadcast team of Dave Neal (play-by-play), Aaron Murray (analyst) and Ashley ShahAhmadi (sideline) will have the call of Kentucky vs. Ohio, set for a 12:45 p.m. ET kickoff on SEC Network.
It’s the first time this season that Neal, a veteran voice of SEC football dating back to his days on the regional Raycom Sports-produced telecasts of conference games, will call a Wildcats game this season.
Kentucky (1-2) is hoping to stop the bleeding after back-to-back losses to South Carolina and No. 1 Georgia in conference play. The Wildcats led for much of the night last Saturday in Lexington before a fourth-quarter Georgia touchdown run from Branson Robinson gave the Bulldogs a 13-12 lead they would not relinquish.
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Ohio (2-1) is coming off back-to-back wins, including a 21-6 victory over FCS foe Morgan State last Saturday in Athens. A week earlier, the Bobcats defeated South Alabama, 27-20, also in Athens.
Kentucky leads the all-time head-to-head series against Ohio, 4-2. The two schools last met on Sept. 6, 2014, a 20-3 Wildcats win.
AROUND THE “TUBE”
ESPN’s ‘College GameDay’ and No. 1 broadcast crew of Chris Fowler (play-by-play), Kirk Herbstreit (analyst) and Holly Rowe (sideline reporter) will be in Norman, Okla., this weekend for a top 15 showdown between No. 7 Tennessee and No. 13 Oklahoma at 7:30 ET. The game can be seen on ABC. It’s the Sooners’ first conference game since officially joining the SEC over the summer.
Other SEC games of note are UCLA vs. No. 16 LSU in Baton Rouge. The Bruins-Tigers matchup is ABC’s weekly 3:30 ET game.
Opposite Ohio-Kentucky in the early window is NC State vs. No. 19 Clemson at Clemson Memorial Stadium (noon ET, ABC) and Florida vs. Mississippi State (noon ET, ESPN) at Davis Wade Stadium.
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