ESPN isn’t set on their plans for a new Monday Night Football booth yet. The network may be waiting for the future of college football to become clearer before it makes plans for professional football.
A report from Front Office Sports’s Michael McCarthy says that ESPN does have a plan for putting its top college football play-by-play team in the MNF booth. A source told McCarthy that plenty of ESPN executives believe that the duo are the best football play-by-play team the company has.
ESPN declined to comment on McCarthy’s story, but the same source says that the only way Herbstreit and Fowler end up on Monday Night Football is if the college football season is delayed. That seems unlikely, but as new Covid-19 cases begin to spike across several areas that are college football hotbeds, it is not totally outside of the realm of possibilities.
Previous reports from multiple sources have suggested that Steve Levy is the favorite to become the new play-by-play man on Monday Night Football. Some combination of Louis Riddick, Dan Orlovsky, and Pat McAfee has been mentioned as the most likely option to fill the analyst roll(s).
The network has to make a decision about its new play-by-play team before September. The 51st season of Monday Night Football kicks off with a double-header on September 14.
