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Legendary USC head coach Pete Carroll catches up with Yogi Roth

Yogi Roth and Pete Carroll talking ball? Yes, please!

Big Ten Network’s Yogi Roth, host of the new show The Y-Option, sat down with former head coach and USC legend Pete Carroll in an exclusive interview this past week.

The former Seattle Seahawks and USC head coach talked about winning a Super Bowl and college football national championship and his time away from the sport in 2024.

Roth played wide receiver for the Pittsburgh Panthers before joining Pete Carroll’s coaching staff with the USC Trojans in 2009. After his time with USC ended, Roth transitioned to media, working for ESPN and Fox before the Pac-12 Network.

“It’s been quite the journey to join this team at BTN and one that I’m extremely proud of. When the Pac-12 shifted in dramatic fashion last August it was clear that myself, and over 200 colleagues, would be looking for our next job. We would all work the phones, support one another and begin the journey that none of us could have predicted,” Roth said.

Roth will be an analyst for the network and be in the booth for games. He also served as a studio host with the Pac-12 Network, a role he will return to with Big Ten Network.

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BTN analyst believes MSU can ‘make some noise’ if Aidan Chiles lives up to potential

Aidan Chiles is the key to the Spartans experiencing success in 2024

If Michigan State quarterback Aidan Chiles can live up to his potential right away, then Yogi Roth of the Big Ten Network likes the Spartans in 2024.

Roth was one of the crew members from the Big Ten Network who stopped at Michigan State earlier this week during their fall camp tour. During their visit, Roth was impressed by Chiles and believes he is the key for Michigan State to surprise some in 2024.

Check out the full clip of what Roth had to say about the Spartans below:

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Yogi Roth on USC football expectations heading to Big Ten

Yogi Roth prepares to cover USC at Big Ten media days.

Yogi Roth, on the Y-Option podcast, shares his thoughts on how the USC Trojans will fit into the Big Ten in 2024. Miller Moss takes over for Caleb Williams at quarterback and D’Anton Lynn arrives as the team’s new defensive coordinator.

We noted the other day that Yogi Roth will be a game analyst and college football commentator for Big Ten Network this season.

Roth’s full season-long schedule of games isn’t known yet, but Roth’s early-season assignments are known. One of Roth’s first games as a Big Ten Network game analyst in the booth will be the Sept. 7 USC game against Utah State. That game will be a late-night kickoff at 8 p.m. Pacific time in Los Angeles. The game will start at 11 p.m. Eastern time, marking a new era for Big Ten Network in carrying the late-window games that used to belong to Pac-12 Network.

Big Ten media days continue through Thursday, July 25, at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. Big Ten Network is carrying all of the festivities.

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Former Pac-12 Network analyst Yogi Roth is joining Big Ten Network

Yogi Roth joins BTN.

You knew this was coming. With USC, UCLA, Washington and Oregon moving to the Big Ten, and with the Pac-12 essentially if not technically dead, the on-air talent at Pac-12 Network was going to have to find new homes. One prominent Pac-12 Network football analyst has landed at the Big Ten Network. Yogi Roth, the lead game analyst for Pac-12 Network’s football coverage, is heading for BTN, per Awful Announcing:

“I’m on my way to Indianapolis to work for the Big Ten Network, as B1G Media Days get underway Tuesday morning. I’ll be interviewing coaches, meeting players, and learning about a league that has transformed into one of the two premiere leagues in college football,” Roth said.

“It’s been quite the journey to join this team at BTN and one that I’m extremely proud of. When the Pac-12 shifted in dramatic fashion last August it was clear that myself, and over 200 colleagues, would be looking for our next job. We would all work the phones, support one another and begin the journey that none of us could have predicted,” he added.

Big Ten media days are from July 23-25 in Indianapolis.

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Report: Big Ten Network to hire some familiar faces to Pac-12 fans

The Big Ten expects to hire Pac-12 Network talent to cover their new West Coast teams, per John Canzano.

The Pac-12 Conference as we knew it may be dead, but that doesn’t mean the people behind the scenes and on television who covered the Conference of Champions have to go away with it.

The Big Ten Conference, the new home of Oregon, Washington, USC and UCLA, plans to hire a lot of the on and off-air talent that once worked for the now-defunct Pac-12 Network.

In John Canzano’s online newsletter, which is available with a fee, the commissioner of the Big Ten, François McGillicuddy, laid out their plan to Canzano when asked if they plan to hire Pac-12 Network staffer and local staff in Seattle and Eugene.

“We do, although the on-air portion will likely not be announced officially until later in July. The Pac-12 Network had incredibly talented people both on-air and behind-the-scenes, and we have been fortunate to add some of those folks,” he said. “It gets back to our goal of immediately representing all four schools and their fan bases.

As it relates to the Big Ten, no one should know those schools better than the Big Ten Network. The conference is now at 18 schools, versus 11 when the network launched, and admittedly there is a lot more knowledge required. Adding staff with an immediate and expert sense of programs, traditions, and rivalries is a must for us.”

Although the network itself had some problems, the on-air talent such as Yogi Roth, Ashley Adamson, Roxy Bernstein, Ann Schatz and a whole host of others are the best in the business and should continue to do thing in their respective sports out here on the West Coast.

Unfortunately, the man who coined the term “Conference of Champions,” Bill Walton, won’t be one of them as he was lost to the world to colon cancer.

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