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NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Earlier this week it was reported that the College Football Playoff would be expanding to include 24 teams starting next year. While the timeline is a bit earlier than many expected, the expansion to 24 teams was widely viewed as inevitable after the playoff’s initial expansion. Now it has come to pass. Critics of the…
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Fox’s Big Noon Kickoff made a bold move when it brought Dave Portnoy and the Barstool Sports gang aboard in a bid to help it gain ground on ESPN’s College GameDay in the battle of college football pregame shows. But just over a year into the partnership between Big Noon Kickoff and Barstool Sports, it is abruptly over in the middle…
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Despite winning three straight national championships, the Big Ten faces a problem that’s entering crisis territory: the TV ratings gap between the Big Ten and the SEC is widening. Some of this can be dismissed by pointing to the soft schedule the Big Ten has opened with, how early we are in the season, or…
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… An ex-Ohio State player bashed Gus Johnson for sounding like “a sad clown” while calling a Buckeyes blowout win .
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Gus Johnson has spent years building a reputation as the announcer who makes big moments feel bigger. Saturday, calling Ohio State’s 59-3 rout of Kent State, he sounded like he wanted to be almost anywhere else. That wasn’t just the impression of viewers watching from home, or us at Awful Announcing. Bobby Carpenter, a former…
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… “I miss when this show was about an old guy putting on funny mascot heads.” That comment came from an X user quoting a video of ESPN’s College GameDay on Saturday. Specifically, a clip of Mississippi Army National Guard helicopters flying overhead as analyst Pat McAfee says, “We certainly appreciate the hell out of the…
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… “I miss when this show was about an old guy putting on funny mascot heads.” That comment came from an X user quoting a video of ESPN’s College GameDay on Saturday. Specifically, a clip of Mississippi Army National Guard helicopters flying overhead as analyst Pat McAfee says, “We certainly appreciate the hell out of the…
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Week 2 of the 2026 college football season featured two high-profile SEC-Big Ten matchups, with Ohio State-Texas setting records for ESPN. On Saturday, Texas’s improbable comeback win over Ohio State averaged 14.0 million viewers on ABC, peaking at 16.4 million, according to ESPN PR. That is the most-watched regular-season college football game on ESPN networks…
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… College football fans are not shy about their opinions and preferences when it comes to kickoff times. The SEC game of the week on CBS at 3:30 p.m. ET was a college football institution… until it wasn’t. ESPN has long steered most of its best games to primetime on ABC. But nobody has disrupted the…
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… This originally appeared in Thursday’s edition of The A Block, Awful Announcing’s daily newsletter with the latest sports media news, commentary, and analysis. Sign up here and be the first to know everything going on in the sports media world. The Colorado Buffaloes kick off their 2026 college football season against the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets…