FOX Sports rolled out its college football broadcast plans for the upcoming season, with games coverage opening at 11a on Saturdays with a brand-new pregame show on the FOX broadcast network, analysts Urban Meyer, Reggie Bush, Matt Leinart and Brady Quinn, led by host Rob Stone, and games set to start at noon. FOX Sports’ 2019 college football lineup includes games from the Big 12, Big Ten and Pac-12 conferences, including Ohio State/ Michigan, Oklahoma/Texas, the Big Ten Championship Game and more. Play-by-play announcer Gus Johnson, analyst Joel Klatt and reporter Jenny Taft return to the booth this season to lead FOX Sports’ game crews. Other company highlights include FS1’s lineup of Friday games, highlighted by Utah/USC (Sept. 20), Penn State/Maryland (Sept. 27), Colorado/Oregon (Oct. 11) and Ohio State/Northwestern (Oct. 18). Games get underway from Aug 29-31, highlighted by the beginning of the Ryan Day era at Ohio State, as the Buckeyes open at home against Lane Kiffin’s FAU Owls on Aug. 31, at noon.
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