ESPN will not make any changes to its Saturday Night Football broadcasts on ABC. Chris Fowler is back as the play-by-play man and is teamed Kirk Herbstriet, who just won a Sports Emmy for Outstanding Game Analyst, and sideline reporter Maria Taylor.
The network has four other broadcast teams that will remain unchanged.
- Dave Pasch, Greg McElroy and Tom Luginbill
- Bob Wischusen, Brock Huard and Allison Williams
- Beth Mowins, Anthony Becht, and Rocky Boiman
- Steve Levy, Brian Griese and Todd McShay
Those groups will call games on either ESPN or ABC depending on the week’s schedule.
The biggest change for ESPN’s college football coverage will be the addition of Sean McDonough, who moves from ESPN’s NFL broadcasts on Monday Night Football to the play-by-play role on ESPN’s Saturday Night Primetime game. Other changes include Mark Jones and Adam Amin trading broadcast teams. Andre Ware will move from the SEC Network to ESPNU, where he will team with Kevin Brown.
Pairings for the 2018 SEC Network broadcasts will be announced during SEC Media Days this week. The full roster of ESPN commentating teams is below.
| Game/Network | Commentators |
| ABC Saturday Night Football | Chris Fowler, Kirk Herbstreit, Maria Taylor |
| ESPN Saturday Night Primetime | Sean McDonough, Todd Blackledge, Holly Rowe |
| ESPN or ABC Saturday | Steve Levy, Brian Griese, Todd McShay |
| ESPN or ABC Saturday | Dave Pasch, Greg McElroy, Tom Luginbill |
| ESPN or ABC Saturday | Bob Wischusen, Brock Huard, Allison Williams |
| ESPN or ABC Saturday | Adam Amin, Rod Gilmore, Quint Kessenich |
| ESPN or ABC Saturday | Mark Jones, Dusty Dvoracek, Molly McGrath |
| ESPN or ABC Saturday | Beth Mowins, Anthony Becht, Rocky Boiman |
| ESPN Thursday | Dave Flemming, TBD, Laura Rutledge |
| ESPN or ESPN2 Friday | Jason Benetti, Kelly Stouffer, Olivia Harlan |
| ESPN or ESPN2 Friday/Saturday | Clay Matvick, Dan Orlovsky, Paul Carcaterra |
| ESPN or ESPN2 Saturday | Anish Shroff, Ahmad Brooks, Roddy Jones |
| ESPNU Saturday | Kevin Brown, Andre Ware |
| ESPNU Saturday | Mike Corey, Rene Ingoglia |
| ESPNU Saturday | Mike Couzens, Kirk Morrison |
| ESPNU Saturday | Roy Philpott, Tom Ramsey |
| ESPNU Thursday – HBCU | Tiffany Greene, Jay Walker |
| All Networks | Mark Neely, Ray Bentley |
| All Networks | Dave Lamont, John Congemi |
