This weekend, Herbstreit and Fowler – along with reporter Laura Rutledge – will call Saturday’s opening game in ESPN and ABC’s new Week 18 NFL doubleheader – Kansas City Chiefs at Denver Broncos (4:30 p.m. ET) – before flying to Indianapolis for Monday’s College Football Playoff National Championship between No. 1 Alabama and No. 3 Georgia (8 p.m., ESPN).
ESPN’s most-tenured football broadcast team, Herbstreit and Fowler have worked together for 26 years and are calling their eighth National Championship, but even they have never experienced an 11-day stretch like this.
“The opportunity to call all these marquee games is a unique challenge and something that Chris and I just couldn’t pass up as two people who love the game of football,” said Herbstreit, who also worked a pair of three-hour College GameDay Built by The Home Depot studio shows last weekend. “We get to witness the intensity of the Orange Bowl, the majesty of the Rose Bowl, the brilliance of Patrick Mahomes, and the crowning of a National Champion. It doesn’t get any better than that.”
Below is a look back at Herbstreit and Fowler’s Orange and Rose Bowl assignments last weekend.
It’s gonna be a busy two weeks for @KirkHerbstreit 👀 pic.twitter.com/DAixzLFEUO
— College GameDay (@CollegeGameDay) December 31, 2021
A little midgame Cotton Bowl update with my guys @chrisfallica and LC while I finish prepping for the Orange Bowl! pic.twitter.com/OyGoreIcw9
— Kirk Herbstreit (@KirkHerbstreit) December 31, 2021
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