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CBS announces college football broadcast teams for 2024 with ex-Super Bowl champion joining roster of analysts
Two former college football stars are joining the CBS broadcast team
WITH the college football season fast approaching, CBS has announced its broadcast teams for the upcoming year.
Many of the same broadcasters are returning for the 2024 college football season, but a few new names are joining the CBS team.
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Brad Nessler, Gary Danielson, and Jenny Dell will continue to headline as the top broadcast team for CBS.
They will air in the 3:30 pm ET window calling Big Ten games and the Big Ten Championship game.
CBS will also air the occasional Mountain West and Service Academy games, which will be called by Rich Waltz, Ross Tucker, and Tiffany Blackmon.
On the CBS Sports Network, Waltz, Robert Turbin, and Amanda Guerra will serve as the broadcast team.
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CBS is adding two former NFL players to their roster of broadcast talent for the 2024 season.
NFL legends Logan Ryan and Luke Kuechly are joining CBS as analysts to give their perspective on college football.
Both Ryan and Kuechly were three-year college starters who were drafted highly by NFL squads.
Kuechly played exceptional linebacker at Boston College, earning All-American honors twice and being gamed the 2011 ACC Defensive Player of the Year.
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He was drafted with the No. 9 overall pick in the 2012 NFL Draft by the Carolina Panthers.
Ryan played three years at Rutgers University, compiling 170 tackles, 11.5 tackles for loss, and seven interceptions in his college career.
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He was drafted in the third round of the 2013 NFL Draft by the New England Patriots and won two Super Bowls in his career.
Their insight will help boost their broadcast partners, as well as studio coverage on College Football Today, hosted by Adam Zucker.
Analysts Brian Jones, Rick Neuheisel, and Aaron Taylor will join Zucker in the studio.
CBS is kicking off its coverage of the 2024 season with three Inside College Football season preview shows on Monday, August 19 and Tuesday, August 20.
Inside College Football will begin its regular season schedule on Tuesday, August 27.
College football top 25 rankings
BELOW are the preseason top 25 rankings of college football's best programs
- Georgia
- Ohio State
- Oregon
- Texas
- Alabama
- Ole Miss
- Notre Dame
- Penn State
- Michigan
- Florida State
- Missouri
- Utah
- LSU
- Clemson
- Tennessee
- Oklahoma
- Oklahoma State
- Kansas State
- Miami
- Texas A&M
- Arizona
- Kansas
- USC
- NC State
- Iowa
CBS' first game coverage will begin in Week 0 on Saturday, August 23 in a matchup between SMU and Nevada. Waltz, Turbin, and Guerra will be on the call for that game.
The network will begin its full coverage of college football in Week 1 with six games across CBS and CBS Sports.
Nessler, Danielson, and Dell are on the call for Akron vs Ohio State on Saturday, August 31.
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Waltz, Tucker, and Blackmon are on the call for UCLA vs Hawaii in primetime on CBS on Saturday, August 31.
All of CBS' college football games can also be streamed on Paramount+.
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