Chris Fowler and Kirk Herbstreit are entrenched as ESPN's top college football broadcasting team. And, in turn, as college football's top broadcasting team.
And after they call their game Saturday night, each will run off to their side gigs, calling NFL games.
Herbstreit picked up Thursday night duty this past season, working with Al Michaels on Amazon.
On Tuesday, the New York Post's Andrew Marchand reported Fowler will become the No. 2 voice on ESPN's Monday Night Football package.
MNF has grown in recent years to the point where ESPN needs a part-time No. 2 crew to call a handful of games throughout the season. For a time, that duo was Fowler and Herbstreit. ESPN demoted Steve Levy to its No. 2 chair after acquiring Joe Buck and Troy Aikman from Fox, and now has reportedly demoted him again. The Post did not indicate who would call games next to Fowler; Louis Riddick and Dan Orlovsky served as analysts in 2022.
The news comes on the heels of Fowler reportedly re-signing with ESPN, though not at NFL-level numbers a la Tony Romo, Aikman and Buck.
Herbstreit reportedly makes more calling one game a week for Amazon than he does serving as ESPN's lead college football analyst all year long, and the Post reports Fowler added the MNF package as something of a compromise for the raise he sought from ESPN.
Fowler spends his winter, spring and summer as ESPN's lead tennis voice as well.
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