According to a report from Andrew Marchand of The New York Post, NBC has added Todd Blackledge to pair with Noah Eagle for its upcoming Big Ten on NBC broadcast booth.
Blackledge has worked as a college football game analyst for ESPN since 2006, ascending to become the company’s defacto number two game analyst behind Kirk Herbstreit. Before working for ESPN, Blackledge served as the lead analyst for CBS Sports’ coverage of college football. The former Penn State and NFL quarterback will work as the color commentator for ESPN Radio’s coverage of the College Football Playoff National Championship Game as his final assignment for the network on Monday.
Eagle is the 26-year-old son of broadcasting legend Ian Eagle. He currently serves as the radio play-by-play announcer of the Los Angeles Clippers. He also has worked as the announcer for NFL games airing on Nickelodeon, and worked as a play-by-play announcer for college football games airing on FOX Sports and FS1.
The Big Ten on NBC will air in primetime, with the network opting to broaden its college football horizons outside of its traditional offerings of strictly Notre Dame broadcasts. 2023 will begin the first of a seven-year deal for the Big Ten that sees its television rights move away from ESPN for the first time in the network’s history.
It has been previously reported that Maria Taylor would lead NBC’s college football studio coverage of its new property.
