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Fowler expects an ‘out-of-body experience’ Saturday at GameDay

Chris Fowler’s fall Saturday mornings the past 25 years usually have involved early-morning wake ups, rowdy college students and costumed colleagues. That was part of the ESPN commentator’s routine as host of College GameDay Built by The Home Depot.

Tomorrow, he’ll experience that environment one more time but from a perspective other than the host’s chair.

Earlier this year, Fowler stepped away from College GameDay to focus on his play-by-play duties on ABC Saturday Night Football presented by Wells Fargo and ESPN’s tennis coverage. While Rece Davis assumes Fowler’s role as host of College GameDay when the show debuts for the 2015 season tomorrow in Fort Worth, Texas (ESPN, 9 a.m. ET), Fowler will be calling the Wisconsin-Alabama game in Arlington, Texas that night (ABC, 8 ET).

Fowler will be on the GameDay set tomorrow to “be able to say ‘thank you’ to lots of people and how much I appreciate the chance to be on that show and help it grow for 25 years,” he tells Front Row in the video above. “It’ll be sort of an out-of-body experience.”

After his call of the Wisconsin-Alabama game, Fowler returns to ESPN’s coverage of the US Open in Flushing Meadow, N.Y. – where he has been most of this week – through the men’s and women’s finals Sept. 12-13. He’ll return to ESPN and ABC’s college football coverage after that.

Video produced by Dave Nagle and Jonothon Halley-McLeod

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