Fox College Football | |
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Also known as | 'CFB on Fox Fox CFB BCS on Fox (2007–10) |
Genre | College football game telecasts |
Presented by |
Gus Johnson Tim Brando Craig Bolerjack Ryan Nece Joey Harrington Charles Davis Joel Klatt Petros Papadakis Eric Crouch Darius Walker (see section) |
Theme music composer | Scott Schreer |
Opening theme | "Fox NFL theme music" |
Ending theme | Same as opening theme |
Composer(s) | Scott Schreer |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 15 |
Production | |
Camera setup | Multi-camera |
Running time | 210 minutes or until game ends |
Production company(s) | Fox Sports |
Distributor | 20th Television |
Release | |
Original network |
Fox (1999–present) Fox Sports Networks (1999–present) Fox College Sports (2006–present) Fox Sports 1 (2013–present) Fox Sports 2 (2013–present) FX (2011–2012) |
Picture format |
480i (SDTV) (downconverted to letterboxed 4:3 on SDTV feed since 2009), 720p (HDTV) |
Original release | January 1, 1999 | – present
Chronology | |
Related shows | SEC on CBS |
External links | |
Website |
Fox College Football (or Fox CFB for short) is the branding used for broadcasts of NCAA Division I FBS college football games produced by Fox Sports. Through its broadcast deal with NCAA, Fox Sports holds the rights to televise games from the Pac-12 Conference, the Big 12 Conference, Big 10 Conference, Conference USA and Army Black Knights football home games; these telecasts are televised on broadcast television through the Fox network and on cable via Fox College Sports, the Fox Sports Networks regional channels, FX, FS1 (known as FS1 College Football as of September 2015) and FS2.
The Fox network 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 the cable network 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.