2012 ESPN College Football Announcer Pairings

I saw this ESPN press release this morning and completely forgot that college football is about to start around the corner (along with the NFL). The Olympics and MLB have taken my mind off the thought that yeah we're less than a month away from college football. Anyway here are the 2012 ESPN college football announcer pairings.

Let's go over the changes first:

-Chris Spielman is replacing Matt Millen as Sean McDonough's partner for the ABC afternoon games.

-Brian Griese will replace Spielman with Dave Pasch for the ESPN morning game.

-Millen will work with Joe Tessitore on a select Primetime package on ESPN

-Carter Blackburn will replace Tessitore on Friday nights.

-Ed Cunningham will now work with Mike Patrick on ABC afternoon games

-Danny Kanell (who used to work with Pam Ward, RIP Pammy's college football days) will also move to the ABC afternoon games with Bob Wischusen*.

*If you're counting at home. All three ABC afternoon games have new analysts.

-David Pollack replaces Craig James on the Thursday night game to work alongside Rece Davis and Jesse Palmer

-Joey Galloway will work the ESPN 2 Noon crappy Big Ten game with Beth Mowins.

- A new team of Tom Hart and John Congemi will now call the ESPNU noon game.

- Brock Huard replaces Bob Davie on the ESPN2 night game with Mark Jones.

-Matt Stinchcomb will call the ESPNU primetime game with Clay Matvick

I feel bad for Joe Tessitore. He's a genuinely good announcer and now he's stuck with Millen. I also feel bad for Cunningham who is  now stuck with Mike Patrick. I feel good for McDonough who doesn't have to work with Millen anymore. I don't care much for Blackburn so I don't know how much of the Friday night games I'll watch now. It's nice seeing a Griese with Pasch again on the morning game.

Also of note this is going to be weird not having Pam in our lives. Pam Ward has been a part of my life since 2006 when I really started following college football in a hardcore way. She was soooooooo bad she was good. RIP Pammy.

Here's the master schedule of announcers:

Game Telecast	Play-by-play	Analyst	Reporter
Saturday Night Football (on ABC)	Brent Musburger	Kirk Herbstreit	TBA
ESPN College Football Primetime (Saturday)	Brad Nessler	Todd Blackledge	Holly Rowe
ESPN Saturday Prime Time	Joe Tessitore	Matt Millen	Jessica Mendoza, Shelley Smith or Shannon Spake
ESPN2 College Football Primetime(Saturday)	Mark Jones	Brock Huard	Jessica Mendoza or Shelley Smith
ESPNU Saturday Prime Time	Clay Matvick	Matt Stinchcomb	Allison Williams
ESPN College Football Primetime(Thursday)	Rece Davis	Jesse Palmer and David Pollack	Samantha Steele
ESPN and ESPN2 Friday	Carter Blackburn	Rod Gilmore	Jemele Hill
ABC Saturday Afternoon	Sean McDonough	Chris Spielman	Quint Kessenich
ABC Saturday Afternoon	Mike Patrick	Ed Cunningham	Jeannine Edwards
ABC Saturday Afternoon	Bob Wischusen	Danny Kanell	Maria Taylor
ESPN College Football (Saturday afternoon)	Dave Pasch	Brian Griese	Jenn Brown
ESPN2 College Football (Saturday afternoon)	Beth Mowins	Joey Galloway
ESPNU Saturday Afternoon	Tom Hart	John Congemi
ESPNU Saturday Afternoon	Anish Shrof	Dan Hawkins
ESPNU Thursday (HBCU)	Joe Davis	Jay Walker
ESPNU Late Saturday (HBCU)	Joe Davis	Jay Walker
ESPN Radio	Bill Rosinski	David Norrie	Joe Schad
SEC Network (ESPN Regional Television syndicated games)	Dave Neal	Andre Ware	Cara Capuano
BIG EAST Network (ESPN Regional Television syndicated games)	Eamon McAnaney	David Diaz-Infante	Paul Carcaterra

(Via the ESPN Media Zone)