Musberger, Herbstreit, Davie to work ABC Saturdays

[texas1928]

NEW YORK -- Brent Musburger will team with analysts Kirk Herbstreit and Bob Davie for ABC's Saturday night college football games this fall, while Brad Nessler will be part of a three-man booth with Paul Maguire and Bob Griese.

ABC and ESPN revealed their new announcing teams Wednesday.

Other interesting changes include Dan Fouts moving from the analyst position he held last season to play-by-play. The NFL Hall of Famer will be in the booth with Tim Brant.

Mike Patrick and Todd Blackledge will team up for ESPN's Saturday night broadcasts, while Doug Flutie will be in the studio for both ESPN and ABC. Also, Chris Fowler will take over the play-by-play duties from Mike Tirico for ESPN's Thursday night games.

[realisticphish]

1. good

maybe Herbstreit and Davie will balence out Musburger's suckiness

[texas1928]

2. I can not stand Brent.

I am half the time screaming SHUT UP at the screen when he is farting out his commentary. I will miss Keith Jackson so much.

[realisticphish]

3. I love Herbie

and i hope he overpowers Brent. What we do around here for football games is usually to mute the TV, and turn on the radio; the local coverage is high quality

[mduffy31]

4. Love Nessler

I think he should be the #1 guy.

[trotsky]

5. I thought Fouts did a good job on MNF.

But that was commentary. Not so sure about him doing play-by-play.

[realisticphish]

6. yeah

there's a BIG difference. But we'll see what happens

[Stephist]

7. They should be real unbiased calling Big Ten games.

;- Of course ESPN/ABC were already the Big XI's biggest cheerleaders.