ESPN College Football Primetime (Saturday)

College Football Primetime
Starring	Joe Tessitore, Todd Blackledge and Holly Rowe
Country of origin	United States
Production
Running time	3 hours (approximate)
Release
Original network	ESPN
Original release	1984 – Present

ESPN College Football Primetime is a live game presentation of Division 1-A college football on ESPN. In the past, the presenting sponsors have been Polaroid, AT&T and Hampton Hotels. The current presenting sponsor is Hampton's parent company, Hilton. The game telecast airs every Saturday night at 7:45pm ET during the college football regular season. The game is preceded by a 45-minute-long College Football Scoreboard with Rece Davis, Lou Holtz and Mark May, all of whom also appear on the halftime report. This game telecast is also presented in high-definition on ESPN HD.

Since debuting in 1979, it has broadcast games from numerous conferences including the ACC, Big Ten and the Big East Conference. In recent years, it has primarily featured the SEC as the second-choice game to CBS' national coverage earlier in the day. Games from the other conferences typically could air either on ESPN/ESPN2 or ABC, but the does not offer such flexibility. This game is often seen as the ESPN Game of the Week along with the Thursday night telecast.

Some notable voices of ESPN College Football Primetime over the years have been Ron Franklin, Mike Gottfried and Adrian Karsten, but all have gone on to different assignments, except for Karsten, who died in 2005. Currently, the primary commentators for the ESPN version are Joe Tessitore on play-by-play, Todd Blackledge as analyst and Holly Rowe as field reporter. The secondary commentators are Chris Fowler on play-by-play, Kirk Herbstreit as analyst and Heather Cox as field reporter, all of whom also serve as the primary commentating team for ABC's Saturday Night Football.

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