Fox College Football

Fox College Football
Also known as	Big Noon Saturday (2019–present) Fox College Football Friday (2024–present) Fox CFB College Football on Fox CFB on Fox BCS on Fox (2007–2010)
Genre	College football game telecasts
Presented by	Gus Johnson Joel Klatt Jenny Taft Jason Benetti Brock Huard Allison Williams Tim Brando Spencer Tillman Josh Sims Jeff Levering Mark Helfrich Alex Faust Petros Papadakis Mike Pereira Dean Blandino Rob Stone Brady Quinn Matt Leinart Urban Meyer Mark Ingram II (see section)
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Production locations	Various NCAA stadiums (Game telecasts, halftime show and road shows) Fox Network Center Los Angeles, California (Studio segments, pregame and postgame shows)
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	210 minutes or until game ends
Production company	Fox Sports
Original release
Network	Fox (1999–present) Fox Sports Networks (1999–2019) Fox College Sports (2006–2019) FS1 (2013–present) FS2 (2013–present) FX (2011–2012)
Release	January 1, 1999 (1999-01-01) – present
Related
Big Noon Saturday Big Noon Kickoff

Fox College Football is the branding used for broadcasts of NCAA Division I FBS college football games produced by Fox Sports, and broadcast primarily by Fox, FS1, and FS2.

Initial college football broadcasts on the Fox network were limited to selected bowl games, beginning with the Cotton Bowl Classic from 1999 to 2014. From 2007 to 2010, Fox broadcast the Bowl Championship Series (excluding games played at the Rose Bowl stadium, whose rights were held by ABC under a separate agreement), branded as the BCS on Fox.

In 2012, Fox began to air a regular schedule of Saturday college football games during the regular season. Fox primarily airs coverage of the Big Ten and Big 12 and holds alternating rights to the Big Ten championship game. Since 2020, Fox has aired games from the Mountain West Conference (including Boise State home games, and the Mountain West championship game). Fox also holds rights to the Holiday Bowl. As of the 2024 season, coverage on the main Fox network currently consists of four regular weekly windows, including a Friday prime time game, a Saturday afternoon doubleheader (with the early game—branded as Big Noon Saturday—considered Fox's flagship game of the week), on most weeks a Saturday prime time game and on select weeks a Saturday late night game.

Coverage history

FSN coverage (1996–2019)

In order to better compete with national networks like ESPN, since its inception the Fox Sports Networks (FSN) has carried college football games from the then Pac-10 conference and Big 12 conference. These telecasts were distributed to individual Fox Sports Networks and other affiliates. In 2011 FSN added a package of Conference USA football games. ^[1] Many of these games were aired exclusively, aired as a simulcast, or aired on tape delay on Fox College Sports.

Pac-12 games moved from FSN to Fox, FX and eventually FS1 in 2012. ^[2] The C-USA left Fox Sports entirely in 2016. ^[3] FSN affiliates continued to largely hold the third-tier rights to many Big 12 teams until 2020, when ESPN+ acquired the tier 3 media rights to all but two of the conference's members (with the only holdouts being the Oklahoma Sooners, who maintained their contract with Fox Sports Oklahoma, and the Texas Longhorns, who have a long-term deal with ESPN and IMG College to operate its Longhorn Network). ^{[4] [5]}

After the sale of FSN to Sinclair Broadcast Group as part of Disney's acquisition of 21st Century Fox, the networks sub-licensed a package of Conference USA games from new sister network Stadium. ^[6] The Atlantic Coast Conference's syndication package for regional sports networks—which was produced by Raycom Sports—continued to primarily be carried by the networks (now Bally Sports) until 2023, when Bally dropped them amid its parent company's bankruptcy, ^[7] and Raycom Sports sold the rights to The CW. ^{[8] [9]}

Cotton Bowl Classic (1998–2013)

Fox acquired its first college football telecast in 1998, when it obtained the broadcast rights to the annual Cotton Bowl Classic held each January on (eventually, the day after) New Year's Day; the first game to be shown on the network as part of the deal was held on January 1, 1999. Fox renewed its contract to carry the game in 2010, in a four-year agreement that ran through the 2013 NCAA college football season.

Fox lost the rights to the Cotton Bowl to ESPN for the 2015 edition, as ESPN holds the television contract to all six bowl games that encompass the College Football Playoff system under a twelve-year deal worth over $7.3 billion. The Cotton Bowl was the only game among the six that was not already broadcast by ESPN. ^{[10] [11]}

Bowl Championship Series, launch of Big Ten Network (2006–2009)

From the 2006 through the 2009 seasons, Fox held the broadcast rights to most of the games comprising the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) – including the Sugar Bowl, the Fiesta Bowl, the Orange Bowl, and the newly-established BCS Championship Game. Fox paid close to $20 million per game for the rights to televise the BCS games. ^[12] Fox's contract with the BCS excluded any event in the series that was held at the Rose Bowl stadium, such as the Rose Bowl Game and the 2010 BCS National Championship Game, as ABC already had a separate arrangement with the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Association to serve as the broadcaster for the games. ^[13] Fox promoted the BCS bowl games with the blanket title Bowl Bash. ^[14]

ESPN, which is majority owned by ABC's corporate parent The Walt Disney Company and serves as the producer for all of ABC's sports coverage, would displace Fox outright as the broadcaster of the BCS beginning in the 2010–11 season. ^[15] This left Fox with only the Cotton Bowl Classic as the sole college football game, to which it held the television rights until the 2013–14 season.

Expansion of national regular season coverage, Big Ten contract (2011–2019)

Beginning with the 2011 season, sister cable channel FX began airing a "game of the week" on Saturdays featuring matchups from the Big 12, Conference USA, and Pac-12. ^[16] The Fox network also obtained the rights to air the Big Ten Conference's new football championship game beginning that season and running through 2016, as part of Fox Sports' partnership with the conference on the Big Ten Network. ^[17] Fox also acquired bi-yearly rights to the inaugural Pac-12 Football Championship Game, alternating with ESPN/ABC. ^[18]

Beginning with the 2012 season, Fox added regular season games on Saturdays to its lineup; it broadcast eight afternoon games and twelve nighttime games throughout the season, with the latter telecasts airing as part of a new strategy by the network to carry more sports programming on Saturday nights during prime time. FS1 replaced FX's coverage upon its launch in August 2013, though some overflow coverage has aired on FX occasionally when warranted; since 2017, overflow coverage has been carried FS2, and before that on Fox Business Network, which usually carries paid programming on Saturday afternoons of little consequence to pre-emption. ^[19]

Fox's coverage of the 2015 season opened with a game on FS1 featuring the Michigan Wolverines at the Utah Utes. As the first game featuring new head coach Jim Harbaugh, the season premiere was promoted with a touring "HarBus"—decorated with a sweater and khakis in imitation of Harbaugh's on-field wardrobe—travelling to Salt Lake City for the game, accompanied by a group of "HarBros" dressed like Harbaugh. The tour concluded at Salt Lake City's Grand America Hotel for game day; the bus itself was barred from entering the University of Utah's campus. ^{[20] [21]}

On July 12, 2016, the San Francisco 49ers announced that they had taken over the Foster Farms Bowl (now known as the Redbox Bowl), and had reached a four-year deal to move the game to Fox and Fox Deportes beginning in 2016. ^[22] It was also reported by Sports Business Journal that Fox was pursuing a share of the Big Ten's primary football rights. ^[23] Fox began streaming select college football games in 360-degree video for the 2016 season. ^{[24] [25]} The following year, FS1 also acquired rights to the Holiday Bowl, ending a long-standing relationship between the game and ESPN. ^[26]

On July 24, 2017, the Big Ten Conference announced that Fox and ESPN had acquired rights to its games under a six-year deal beginning in the 2017 season. The contract also includes an extension of Fox's contract to operate Big Ten Network through 2032. ^[27] The deal gives Fox the first choice of games on most weeks, including marquee games such as the Michigan/Ohio State game—which had been a fixture of ABC's college football schedule for over a half-decade. The game will remain in its traditional noon slot on the last day of the Big Ten's regular season. ^{[28] [29]}

Fox promoted its addition of Big Ten football with promotional campaigns focusing on each team; a Children of the Corn themed commercial focusing on the Nebraska Cornhuskers was pulled after complaints by the school. ^[30]

Big Noon Saturday, Mountain West contract (2019–2022)

Brady Quinn, Mark Ingram, Matt Leinart, and Urban Meyer at the 2023 Big Ten Football Championship Game

Prior to the 2019 season, Fox lost its rights to future Big 12 championship games to ESPN as part of an expansion of its rights to the conference. Fox declined to bid on the 2019, 2021, and 2023 games. ^[31]

In the 2019 season, Fox introduced a new flagship Noon ET window known as Big Noon Saturday. The games are accompanied by a pre-game show, Big Noon Kickoff . ^{[32] [33] [34]} A Fox executive stated that the network's highest-rated games were often those with a Noon kickoff, and that the network also wanted to avoid competition from other highly viewed windows such as the SEC on CBS and ABC's Saturday Night Football . ^[35] The new emphasis on early games proved successful: in the first weeks of the 2019 season, Fox had the highest-rated game in the timeslot on multiple occasions. This pattern continued into subsequent seasons, with Big Noon Saturday overtaking the SEC on CBS as having the highest average viewership in the 2021 season, and the Michigan/Ohio State game (which saw Michigan end an eight-game losing streak in the rivalry) being the highest-rated regular-season game of the 2021 season, and most-watched regular-season game since the Alabama–LSU game in 2019. ^{[36] [35]}

Due to the early kickoff times, the package has faced criticism for having undue impacts on teams not based in the Eastern Time Zone (ET), including from University of Oklahoma Athletics Director Joe Castiglione (who felt that a Noon ET kickoff for a 2021 game against Nebraska, marking the 50th anniversary of their 1971 "Game of the Century", would diminish its profile), and Stanford head coach David Shaw (who, in particular, criticized Fox Sports for scheduling noon kickoffs involving visiting Pac-12 teams). ^{[37] [38]} In August 2021, University of Oklahoma president Joe Harroz cited criticism of Big Noon Saturday when discussing the Sooners' proposed move to the SEC, arguing that the Big 12 conference would be "last in line" in negotiating new media deals, and that "our fans talk about that. It also matters to student-athletes. When those who go before you, in terms of negotiations for 2025 and beyond, if those premiere slots are already taken up, it impacts things in a material way. It translates into disadvantages in recruiting the top talent, disadvantages for our student-athletes and a detriment to the fan experience." ^[39]

On January 9, 2020, the Mountain West Conference announced that its next top-tier basketball and football contracts would be split between CBS Sports and Fox Sports under a six-year deal, with Fox replacing ESPN. Fox holds rights to 23 games per-season, including the conference championship and all Boise State home games (since 2012, as part of concessions to remain in the conference, the Mountain West has allowed Boise State's home games to be sold as a separate package from the remainder of its media rights). CBS Sports Network will remain the main broadcaster for the conference outside of these games. ^{[40] [41] [42]}

In the 2022 season, ESPN sub-licensed one additional Big Ten football game to Fox, as compensation to release Joe Buck from his contract with the network to join ESPN and Monday Night Football . ^[43]

Big Ten and Big 12 renewal, Friday-night games (2023–present)

In August 2022, Fox renewed its rights to the Big Ten under a seven-year deal beginning in the 2023 season. Under the new contract, Fox, CBS, and NBC will hold rights to Noon, 3:30 p.m. ET, and prime time games respectively. There will be a larger number of games on the Fox broadcast network, and an option to air "premier" Big Ten games in other timeslots after Oregon, USC, UCLA, and Washington move to the conference in 2024. Fox will air four Big Ten championship games in odd-numbered years over the length of the contract. ^{[44] [45]} In October 2022, Fox also renewed its rights to the Big 12 with a six-year extension through 2030–31. ^[46]

As part of the agreements, Fox also gained additional access to place microphones on players and coaches in Big Ten and Big 12 games beginning in the 2023 season. After having previously shared its in-game presentation with the NFL on Fox , Fox College Football also adopted a dedicated graphics package for its broadcasts, although the revamp faced criticism from viewers on social media. ^{[47] [48] [49]}

For the 2024 season, with the departure of WWE SmackDown to USA Network, Fox introduced a second weekly primetime game known as Fox College Football Friday, beginning September 13; the package draws primarily from the Big Ten and Big 12. One game between Rutgers at USC on October 25 was scheduled after Fox's coverage of game 1 of the 2024 World Series, with an 11 p.m. ET (8:00 p.m. PT) kickoff; the game would begin on FS1 nationally and on MyNetworkTV stations in New York and Los Angeles due to game 1 going to extra innings. ^{[50] [51]} Ohio State and Michigan's spring games also aired on Fox, marking the first time a spring game had aired on over-the-air television. ^[52] In May 2024, it was announced that Fox had acquired two Pac-12 football home games involving the conference's remaining members, Oregon State University and Washington State University. Both games will air on Fox. CW Sports, the sports division of The CW, acquired the rest of the games. ^[53]

Big Noon Saturday matchups

All rankings are from that week's AP Poll, and that week's CFP rankings.

2019

• August 31: Florida Atlantic at No. 5 Ohio State in Columbus, Ohio, Ohio State 45–21
• September 7: Army at No. 7 Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Michigan 24–21^(2OT)
• September 14: No. 6 Ohio State at Indiana in Bloomington, Indiana, Ohio State 51–10
• September 21: No. 11 Michigan at No. 13 Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin, Wisconsin 35–14
• September 28: Texas Tech at No. 6 Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma, Oklahoma 55–16
• October 5: No. 14 Iowa at No. 19 Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Michigan 10–3
• October 12: No. 6 Oklahoma vs No. 11 Texas in Dallas, Texas, Oklahoma 34–27
• October 19: West Virginia at No. 5 Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma, Oklahoma 52–14
• October 26: No. 13 Wisconsin at No. 3 Ohio State in Columbus, Ohio, Ohio State 38–7
• November 2: Nebraska at Purdue in West Lafayette, Indiana, Purdue 31–27 (with Brando, Tillman, and Harvey)
• November 9: Maryland at No. 3 (CFP No. 1) Ohio State in Columbus, Ohio, Ohio State 73–14
• November 16: Michigan State at No. 14 (CFP No. 15) Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Michigan 44–10
• November 23: No. 9 (CFP No. 8) Penn State at No. 2 (CFP No. 2) Ohio State in Columbus, Ohio, Ohio State 28–17
• November 30: No. 2 (CFP No. 1) Ohio State at No. 10 (CFP No. 13) Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Ohio State 56–27
• December 7: No. 2 (CFP No. 1) Ohio State at No. 10 (CFP No. 8) Wisconsin in Indianapolis, Indiana, Ohio State 34–21 (2019 Big Ten Championship Game, 8 ET kickoff)

2020

• September 12: Arkansas State at Kansas State in Manhattan, Kansas, Arkansas State 35–31
• September 26: Kansas State at No. 3 Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma, Kansas State 38–35
• October 3: TCU at No. 9 Texas in Austin, Texas, TCU 33–31
• October 10: No. 22 Texas vs. Oklahoma in Dallas, Texas, Oklahoma 53–45^(4OT)
• October 17: Kansas at West Virginia in Morgantown, West Virginia, West Virginia 38–17
• October 24: Nebraska at No. 5 Ohio State in Columbus, Ohio, Ohio State 52–17
• October 31: Michigan State at No. 13 Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Michigan State 27–24
• November 7: Arizona State at No. 20 USC in Los Angeles, California, USC 28–27
• November 14: TCU at West Virginia in Morgantown, West Virginia (with Davis and Helfrich), West Virginia 24–6
• November 21: No. 9 Indiana at No. 3 Ohio State in Columbus, Ohio, Ohio State 42–35
• November 28: Texas Tech at No. 22 (CFP No. 23) Oklahoma State in Stillwater, Oklahoma (with Davis and Helfrich), Oklahoma State 50-44
• December 5: Texas at Kansas State in Manhattan, Kansas, Texas 69-31
• December 12: Utah at No. 21 (CFP No. 21) Colorado in Boulder, Colorado, Utah 38-21
• December 19: No. 15 (CFP No. 14) Northwestern at No. 3 (CFP No. 4) Ohio State (2020 Big Ten Championship Game) in Indianapolis, Indiana, Ohio State 22–10

2021

• September 4: No. 19 Penn State at No. 12 Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin, Penn State 16–10
• September 11: No. 12 Oregon at No. 3 Ohio State in Columbus, Ohio, Oregon 35-28
• September 18: Nebraska at No. 3 Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma, Oklahoma 23–16
• September 25: No. 12 Notre Dame vs No. 18 Wisconsin in Chicago, Illinois, Notre Dame 41–13
• October 2: No. 14 Michigan at Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin, Michigan 38–17
• October 9: Maryland at No. 7 Ohio State in Columbus, Ohio (with Goldsmith, Huard, and Feldman), Ohio State 66–17
• October 16: No. 12 Oklahoma State at No. 25 Texas in Austin, Texas, Oklahoma State 32–24
• October 23: Northwestern at No. 6 Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Michigan 33–7
• October 30: No. 6 Michigan at No. 8 Michigan State in East Lansing, Michigan, Michigan State 37–33
• November 6: No. 6 (CFP No. 5) Ohio State at Nebraska in Lincoln, Nebraska, Ohio State 26–17
• November 13: No. 4 (CFP No. 8) Oklahoma at No. 18 (CFP No. 13) Baylor in Waco, Texas, Baylor 27–14
• November 20: Iowa State at No. 12 (CFP No. 13) Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma, Oklahoma 28–21
• November 27: No. 2 Ohio State at No. 6 (CFP No. 5) Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Michigan 42–27
• December 4: No. 2 Michigan at No. 15 (CFP No. 13) Iowa (2021 Big Ten Championship Game) in Indianapolis, Indiana, (8 ET kickoff), Michigan 42–3

2022

• September 10: No. 1 Alabama at Texas in Austin, Texas, Alabama 20–19
• September 17: No. 6 Oklahoma at Nebraska in Lincoln, Nebraska, Oklahoma 49–14
• September 24: Maryland at No. 4 Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Michigan 34–27
• October 1: No. 4 Michigan at Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa, Michigan 27–14
• October 8: No. 4 Michigan at Indiana in Bloomington, Indiana, Michigan 31–10
• October 15: No. 10 Penn State at No. 5 Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Michigan 41–17
• October 22: Iowa at No. 2 Ohio State in Columbus, Ohio, Ohio State 54–10
• October 29: No. 2 Ohio State at No. 13 Penn State in University Park, Pennsylvania, Ohio State 44–31
• November 5: Texas Tech at No. 7 (CFP No. 7 TCU in Fort Worth, Texas, TCU 34–24
• November 12: Indiana at No. 2 (CFP No. 2 Ohio State in Columbus, Ohio, Ohio State 56-14
• November 19: No. 4 (CFP No. 4 TCU at Baylor in Waco, Texas (with Benetti, Huard and Feldman), TCU 29–28
• November 26: No. 3 (CFP No. 3 Michigan at No. 2 (CFP No. 2 Ohio State in Columbus, Ohio, Michigan 45–23
• December 3: Purdue at No. 2 (CFP No. 2 Michigan (2022 Big Ten Championship Game) in Indianapolis, Indiana, (8 ET kickoff), Michigan 43–22

2023

• September 2: Colorado at No. 17 TCU in Fort Worth, Texas, Colorado 45–42
• September 9: Nebraska at No. 22 Colorado in Boulder, Colorado, Colorado 36–14
• September 16: No. 7 Penn State at Illinois in Champaign, Illinois, Penn State 30–13
• September 23: No. 16 Oklahoma at Cincinnati in Cincinnati, Ohio, Oklahoma 20–6
• September 30: No. 8 USC at Colorado in Boulder, Colorado, USC 48–41
• October 7: Maryland at No. 4 Ohio State in Columbus, Ohio, Ohio State 37–17
• October 14: Indiana at No. 2 Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Michigan 52–7
• October 21: No. 6 Penn State at No. 3 Ohio State in Columbus, Ohio, Ohio State 20–12
• October 28: No. 6 Oklahoma at Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas (with Benetti, Huard and Williams), Kansas 38–33
• November 4: No. 23 Kansas State at No. 7 Texas in Austin, Texas, Texas 33–30^(OT)
• November 11: No. 3 Michigan at No. 10 Penn State in University Park, Pennsylvania, Michigan 24–15
• November 18: No. 3 Michigan at Maryland in College Park, Maryland, Michigan 31–24
• November 25: No. 2 Ohio State at No. 3 Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Michigan 30–24
• December 2: No. 2 Michigan at No. 16 Iowa (2023 Big Ten Football Championship Game) in Indianapolis, Indiana (8 ET kickoff), Michigan 26–0

2024

• August 31: No. 8 Penn State at West Virginia in Morgantown, West Virginia, Penn State 34-12
• September 7: No. 3 Texas at No. 10 Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Texas 31-12
• September 14: No. 4 Alabama at Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin, Alabama 42-10
• September 21: Marshall at No. 3 Ohio State in Columbus, Ohio, Ohio State 49-14
• September 28: Minnesota at No. 12 Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Michigan 27–24
• October 5: UCLA at No. 7 Penn State in University Park, Pennsylvania, Penn State 27-11
• October 12: Washington at Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa (with Benetti, Huard and Williams), Iowa 40-16
• October 19: Nebraska at No. 16 Indiana in Bloomington, Indiana, Indiana 56-7
• October 26: Nebraska at No. 4 Ohio State in Columbus, Ohio, Ohio State 21-17
• November 2: No. 4 Ohio State at No. 3 Penn State in University Park, Pennsylvania, Ohio State 20-13
• November 9: Purdue at No. 2 Ohio State in Columbus, Ohio, Ohio State 45-0
• November 16: Utah at No. 17 Colorado in Boulder, Colorado, Colorado 49-24
• November 23: No. 5 Indiana at No. 2 Ohio State in Columbus, Ohio, Ohio St 38–15
• November 30: Michigan at No. 2 Ohio State in Columbus, Ohio, Michigan 13–10

Nielsen ratings

Regular season

Rank	Date	Matchup				Network	Viewers (millions)	TV Rating	Significance
1	November 25, 2023, 12:00 ET	#2 Ohio State	24	#3 Michigan	30	Fox	19.07	9.0	The Game
2	November 26, 2022, 12:00 ET	#3 Michigan	45	#2 Ohio State	23		17.14	8.1
3	November 27, 2021, 12:00 ET	#2 Ohio State	27	#5 Michigan	42		15.89	8.1
4	November 24, 2018, 12:00 ET	#4 Michigan	39	#10 Ohio State	62		13.20	7.5
5	November 30, 2019, 12:00 ET	#1 Ohio State	56	#13 Michigan	27		12.42	7.5
6	September 10, 2022, 12:00 ET	#1 Alabama	20	Texas	19		10.60	5.7
7	November 25, 2017, 12:00 ET	#9 Ohio State	31	Michigan	20		10.51	6.1	The Game
8	October 21, 2023, 12:00 ET	#7 Penn State	12	#3 Ohio State	20		9.96	5.3	Rivalry
9	October 28, 2017, 3:30 ET	#2 Penn State	38	#6 Ohio State	39		9.87	5.8
10	November 23, 2019, 12:00 ET	#8 Penn State	17	#2 Ohio State	28		9.43	5.8

Conference championships

Year	Conference	Matchup				Viewers (millions)	TV Ratings
2011	Big Ten	#15 Wisconsin	42	#11 Michigan State	39	7.8	4.6
	Pac-12	UCLA	31	#8 Oregon	49	4.5	2.9
2012	Big Ten	Wisconsin	70	#14 Nebraska	31	4.9	3.0
	Pac-12	#17 UCLA	24	#8 Stanford	27	4.9	3.0
2013	Big Ten	#10 Michigan State	34	#2 Ohio State	24	13.9	7.9
2014	Big Ten	#13 Wisconsin	0	#5 Ohio State	59	6.1	3.5
	Pac-12	#7 Arizona	13	#2 Oregon	51	6.0	3.7
2015	Big Ten	#5 Michigan State	16	#4 Iowa	13	9.8	5.7
2016	Big Ten	#7 Penn State	38	#6 Wisconsin	31	9.2	5.2
	Pac-12	#8 Colorado	10	#4 Washington	41	5.7	3.4
2017	Big Ten	#8 Ohio State	27	#4 Wisconsin	21	12.9	7.3
	Big 12	#11 TCU	17	#3 Oklahoma	41	5.9	3.8
2018	Big Ten	#21 Northwestern	24	#6 Ohio State	45	8.7	5.0
	Pac-12	#17 Utah	3	#11 Washington	10	5.1	2.6
2019	Big Ten	#1 Ohio State	34	#8 Wisconsin	21	13.6	7.6
2020	Big Ten	#14 Northwestern	10	#4 Ohio State	22	8.0	4.6
	Pac-12	Oregon	31	#13 USC	24	3.9	2.2
	Mountain West	Boise State	20	#24 San Jose State	34	1.4	0.9
2021	Big Ten	#2 Michigan	42	#13 Iowa	3	11.7	6.2
	Mountain West	Utah State	46	#19 San Diego State	13	0.8	0.5
2022	Big Ten	Purdue	22	#2 Michigan	43	10.7	5.5
	Pac-12	#11 Utah	47	#4 USC	24	6.0	3.3
	Mountain West	Fresno State	28	Boise State	16	1.9	1.0

Bowl Viewership

Holiday Bowl

• 2017 Holiday Bowl (FS1): 1.6M
• 2018 Holiday Bowl (FS1): 1.8M
• 2019 Holiday Bowl (FS1): 2.5M
• 2020 Holiday Bowl (FS1): Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
• 2021 Holiday Bowl (Fox): Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
• 2022 Holiday Bowl (Fox): 4.0M

Redbox Bowl/Foster Farms Bowl

• 2016 Foster Farms Bowl (Fox) 2.6M
• 2017 Foster Farms Bowl (Fox) 2.8M
• 2018 Redbox Bowl (Fox): 3.7M
• 2019 Redbox Bowl (Fox): 1.9M
• 2020 Redbox Bowl (Fox): Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic

Cotton Bowl Classic

• 1999 Cotton Bowl Classic (Fox): n/a
• 2000 Cotton Bowl Classic (Fox): n/a
• 2001 Cotton Bowl Classic (Fox): n/a
• 2002 Cotton Bowl Classic (Fox): n/a
• 2003 Cotton Bowl Classic (Fox): n/a
• 2004 Cotton Bowl Classic (Fox): n/a
• 2005 Cotton Bowl Classic (Fox): 4.0M
• 2006 Cotton Bowl Classic (Fox): n/a
• 2007 Cotton Bowl Classic (Fox): n/a
• 2008 Cotton Bowl Classic (Fox): n/a
• 2009 Cotton Bowl Classic (Fox): 6.4M
• 2010 Cotton Bowl Classic (Fox): 7.3M
• 2011 Cotton Bowl Classic (Fox): 10.0M
• 2012 Cotton Bowl Classic (Fox): 8.4M
• 2013 Cotton Bowl Classic (Fox): 11.9M
• 2014 Cotton Bowl Classic (Fox): n/a

Orange Bowl

• 2007 Orange Bowl (Fox): 10.6M
• 2008 Orange Bowl (Fox): 12.0M
• 2009 Orange Bowl (Fox): 9.3M
• 2010 Orange Bowl (Fox): 10.9M

Sugar Bowl

• 2007 Sugar Bowl (Fox): 14.4M
• 2008 Sugar Bowl (Fox): 11.7M
• 2009 Sugar Bowl (Fox): 13.4M
• 2010 Sugar Bowl (Fox): 15.5M

Fiesta Bowl

• 2007 Fiesta Bowl (Fox): 13.8M
• 2008 Fiesta Bowl (Fox): 12.2M
• 2009 Fiesta Bowl (Fox): 17.1M
• 2010 Fiesta Bowl (Fox): 13.8M

BCS National Championship Game

• 2007 BCS National Championship Game (Fox): 28.8M
• 2008 BCS National Championship Game (Fox): 23.1M
• 2009 BCS National Championship Game (Fox): 26.8M

Personalities

Further information: List of Fox Sports announcers § College_football

On-air staffing of Big Noon Saturday

Team	Play-by-play	Color commentator	Sidelines
Lead	Gus Johnson	Joel Klatt	Jenny Taft
Secondary	Jason Benetti or Kevin Kugler	Brock Huard	Allison Williams
Tertiary	Tim Brando	Devin Gardner	Josh Sims
Quaternary	Connor Onion	Mark Helfrich

Announcer pairings

1. Gus Johnson/Joel Klatt/Jenny Taft (Fox Big Noon Saturday)
2. Jason Benetti or Kevin Kugler/Brock Huard/Allison Williams (Fox/FS1)
3. Tim Brando/Devin Gardner/Josh Sims (Fox/FS1)
4. Connor Onion/Mark Helfrich/Josh Sims or Allison Williams (select games) (Fox/FS1)
5. Alex Faust or Chris Myers or Dan Hellie or Eric Collins or Trent Rush/Robert Smith (FS1)
6. Eric Collins or Connor Onion or Chris Myers or Trent Rush/Spencer Tillman (FS1)
7. Dan Hellie or Chris Myers or Trent Rush/Petros Papadakis (FS1)

Big Noon Kickoff

Hosts

• Rob Stone (on site)
• Mike Hill (studio)

Analysts

• Matt Leinart, Mark Ingram II, Brady Quinn, Urban Meyer (on site)
• Emmanuel Acho, Chris Petersen (studio)

NCAA Insider

• Bruce Feldman

Contributors

• Clay Travis
• Charles Woodson

Reporter

• Tom Rinaldi (on site)

See also

• College football on television
• Bowl Championship Series on television and radio

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• Official website
• Fox College Football at IMDb