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CU alum Chris Fowler to be voice in EA Sports College Football 25

EA Sports College Football 25 will feature the voice of a former Buff

ESPN’s Chris Fowler, who’s currently the play-by-play voice of ABC’s “Saturday Night Football,” announced Thursday that he’ll be a commentator in the upcoming video game EA Sports College Football 25.

A 1985 graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder, Fowler has worked for ESPN since 1986 and has worn many hats during his time with the company, including calling other sports such as college basketball and tennis. He also hosted ESPN’s “College GameDay” from 1990-2014.

It looks as though EA Sports is trying to recapture the magic of the “Saturday Night Football” crew as Kirk Herbstreit, Fowler’s color analyst, will be a voice as well. Other analysts in the game include David Pollack, Jesse Palmer and Kevin Connors, according to On3.

Herbstreit has been a color analyst in previous versions of the video game, but this will be Fowler’s first appearance.

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Kirk Herbstreit and Chris Fowler will be in EA Sports College Football 25 and fans are pumped

College Football 25 will feature Kirk Herbstreit, Chris Fowler and some other big names as commentators.

New details about the upcoming EA Sports College Football 25 game continue to trickle out, and on Thursday we learned more about the commentators in the game.

Chris Fowler, Kirk Herbstreit, David Pollack, Jesse Palmer and Kevin Connors all announced their involvement in the game Thursday, and the news was met with excitement from fans looking for an authentic broadcast experience. Each of the broadcast veterans has a familiar voice from their respective tenures at ESPN, and Herbstreit, who remains on College GameDay, was in EA’s last college football game, NCAA Football 14.

The news came on the same day it was announced players could begin opting in to have their name, image and likeness reflected in the game. It only added to the hype around the game’s eventual release.

Kirk Herbstreit and Chris Fowler absolutely lost it watching Alabama’s game-winning Iron Bowl TD

How could you not freak out?!

Saturday’s Iron Bowl between No. 8 Alabama and Auburn was an absolute thriller with some of the most chaotic final minutes of any game this season.

And Alabama’s stunning win had just about everyone in awe, including ESPN broadcasters Kirk Herbstreit and Chris Fowler, who were waiting to call the Florida-Florida State game.

With the fourth-quarter clock winding down, the Crimson Tide were running out of chances to steal the lead back from Auburn. And after a bad snap and an illegal forward pass penalty, they found themselves on fourth-and-goal at the Tigers’ 31-yard line.

The already bonkers game took an even wilder turn when Alabama quarterback Jalen Milroe took the fourth-down snap and patiently waited before launching the ball to wide receiver Isaiah Bond, who hauled in the 31-yard touchdown. It was a shocking miracle that helped keep the Crimson Tide’s College Football Playoff hopes alive ahead of next weekend’s SEC championship game against Georgia.

And while college football fans freaked out — or were beyond distraught, depending on their rooting interests — Herbstreit and Fowler had two of the best reactions.

WHAT A GAME. WHAT AN ENDING.

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Chris Fowler and Kirk Herbstreit on the call for LSU vs. Florida State

LSU and Florida State will get ESPN’s top crew on Sunday night.

LSU and Florida State will garner ESPN’s top announcing crew on Sunday night.

According to a press release from ESPN, Chris Fowler and Kirk Herbstreit will be on the call with Holly Rowe handling the sideline duties.

Last year, it was Joe Tessitore and Greg McElroy on the call. With the heightened attention around this year’s game, ESPN’s giving it the “big game” treatment.

It’ll be a busy weekend, especially for Herbstreit.

Fowler, Herbstreit, and Rowe will also work the Florida at Utah game on Thursday night. The trio won’t call a game on Saturday, but Herbstreit still has his College Gameday duties.

It’s rare for Fowler and Herbstreit to call an LSU game, but that will change as the SEC’s biggest games begin moving to ABC and ESPN Networks.

The two were on the call last year when LSU beat Alabama.

The game is set for 6:30 p.m. CT on ABC.

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ESPN replaces Steve Levy with Chris Fowler on Week 2 Saints-Panthers MNF broadcast

ESPN is replacing Steve Levy with Chris Fowler on their Monday Night Football broadcast for Week 2’s Saints-Panthers game:

There’s another changeup coming for ESPN’s “Monday Night Football” broadcast this season, and New Orleans Saints fans will get a first look at it in their team’s Week 2 matchup against the Carolina Panthers. ESPN is bringing back analysts Dan Orlovsky and Louis Riddick for their Monday night B-team, but they’re replacing Steve Levy with Chris Fowler. The Athletic’s Richard Deitsch first reported news of the switch.

The flagship network made a splashy move last year by poaching both Joe Buck and Troy Aikman from FOX Sports, and they’ll continue to be the A-team on most Monday nights (they’re also handling the Browns-Steelers game in Week 2, which kicks off after the Saints and Panthers). But there are three double-headers on this year’s NFL schedule, so we’ll be seeing a lot of Fowler, Orlovsky, and Riddick on those broadcasts.

But we’re getting ahead of ourselves. What about Week 1? The Saints will open their season at the Caesars Superdome on Sept. 10 against the Tennessee Titans, with Chris Lewis, Jason McCourty, Ross Tucker, and Amanda Guerra on the call for CBS Sports.

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Chris Fowler replacing Steve Levy in ESPN’s No. 2 Monday Night Football booth

Chris Fowler will take Steve Levy’s place on ESPN’s second MNF squad

Another year, another change in the NFL booth for ESPN.

After Joe Buck and Troy Aikman came on board in 2022, Chris Fowler will now replace Steve Levy on the second team, per a New York Post report   Tuesday.

Levy had been previously been bumped from the lead play-by-play voice when Buck came over from FOX Sports.

Fowler is the lead play-by-play person on ESPN’s college football broadcasts.

Per the report:

Levy has been a good soldier throughout his MNF experience, though he wasn’t put in the best position to succeed. During his first year, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, games were played with no fans in the stands and no in-person meetings with his booth partners, Riddick and Brian Griese.

That trio received one more year together under normal circumstances before Buck and Aikman were brought in last year. Aikman signed a five-year, $90 million deal, while Buck was for five years and $75 million.

Last season, after Griese left to become the 49ers’ quarterbacks coach, ESPN put Orlovsky in his place on the second MNF team with Riddick and Levy.

ESPN’s Chris Fowler had an incredible call for Georgia RB Kenny McIntosh tripping on the turf

He was so close!

Georgia running back Kenny McIntosh had the ball in his hand and a clear path to the end zone Saturday in the College Football Playoff semifinal at the Peach Bowl.

With a huge assist from some excellent blocking, McIntosh had a wide-open field ahead of him after dodging/basically breaking the ankles of an Ohio State defender. He was zooming on his way to a 62-yard touchdown until… he got tripped up around the 15-yard line before ultimately landing on the 10.

It was still an incredibly impressive play with McIntosh — who entered the playoff game with 10 touchdowns on the season while averaging 5.2 yards per carry — showing off his wheels on what ended up being a 52-yard run. But he got into trouble à la New York Giants quarterback Daniel Jones and seemingly tripped over the turf. Or maybe his own two feet.

He had everyone convinced he’d make it to the end zone, including ESPN’s Chris Fowler, who was on the call for the game and blamed “the turf monster.”

Fowler called the touchdown a touch too early, and the second he said it, McIntosh went down. But it made for a great call from the veteran broadcaster.

The Bulldogs still scored off the drive, but that’s a huge bummer for the senior running back. And the 52-yard run was still McIntosh’s longest on the season.

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Watch: Chris Fowler calls first down that’s nowhere near marker

How could this call be so wrong?

Being ESPN’s top college football announcer, Chris Fowler is expected to prove that on every broadcast he does. Sure, he makes mistakes from time to time, just like every announcer does. It happens. But good grief, could he have been anymore incorrect on this call?

After Notre Dame’s Jayson Ademilola and Isaiah Foskey sacked USC’s Caleb Williams for a 10-yard loss, the Trojans were looking at third-and-20. On the next play, Williams escaped trouble a couple of times and made a 12-yard completion to Mario Williams. Do the math, and that’s fourth down. Somehow though, Fowler thought the play resulted in a conversion:

Look, we don’t expect our announcers to be absolutely perfect. But whatever caused Fowler to make this call is inexcusable. We get that it’s exciting to watch a Heisman Trophy candidate in Williams, but in the end, this still is only a football game, not a showcase. Fowler needs to check himself before his next broadcast so he doesn’t do this again.

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USC vs. Notre Dame: Stream, injury reports, and broadcast info for Nov. 26, 2022

Get full TV, radio and streaming information for #USC vs Notre Dame.

USC faces Notre Dame this Saturday in a genuinely big game. A capacity crowd is expected in the Los Angeles Coliseum for the first game of the Marcus Freeman-Lincoln Riley era in the Trojan-Irish rivalry. This is the first Notre Dame visit to Los Angeles since 2018. The teams did not play in the Coliseum in 2020 due to the pandemic.

This is Chris Fowler’s first TV game in the Lincoln Riley era at USC. He and Kirk Herbstreit will call the game, a tangible and real sign of the game’s national importance and a marker of the Trojans’ rise this year under their new head coach.

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Outrage, frustration pour out from USC, UCLA fans after kickoff time news is released

USC-UCLA might be a late-night game, but if not, Utah-Oregon will be. A top-12 game won’t be seen by most of the USA. It’s so #Pac12 it hurts.

The Pac-12 and the entire college football world are waiting for November 19. On that day, Utah faces Oregon, and UCLA faces USC in a pair of conference-altering games that will decide the conference championship game matchup and a whole lot more.

The College Football Playoff race will be affected that day as well, especially after nine top-25 teams fell this past weekend, suddenly giving hope to USC and UCLA.

The kickoff times for the other games were announced, and everybody is waiting for the decision to be made on when USC-UCLA and Utah-Oregon will be played.

Be warned: They aren’t very good time slots, and hopefully that changes when the Trojans and Bruins move to the Big Ten.

Twitter had a field day reacting to these times, and Jon Wilner of The Mercury News dropped the official announcement.

It will either be 5 p.m. Pacific Standard Time on Fox or 7:30 Pacific — 10:30 in the East — on ESPN. You can see the problem here.

Reaction was swift and forceful: