It’s year 35 of Notre Dame on NBC, and we have seen a large handful of different broadcast teams for Irish football games during that time. This year, the Irish will get something like a tag team cage match for its seven home games.
From the NBC press release:
NOTRE DAME FOOTBALL
NBC Sports’ unprecedented 35th season broadcasting Notre Dame Football features veteran play-by-play voice Dan Hicks, analyst Jason Garrett, and reporter Zora Stephenson as the announce team. Hicks returns for his second consecutive season in South Bend
after calling Fighting Irish games from 2013-2016. Garrett, who is also an analyst on Football Night in America, had a 12-year career in the NFL as a quarterback and spent 16 years as an NFL coach, including nine as head coach of the Dallas Cowboys. This will be the fourth consecutive season calling Notre Dame Football for Garrett and Stephenson.
TOP PRIMETIME MATCHUPS
Premier primetime matchups on NBC and Peacock include the No. 6 Notre Dame Fighting Irish hosting No. 19 Texas A&M on Sept. 13, the No. 2 Penn State Nittany Lions hosting the No. 7 Oregon Ducks in the annual “White Out” game at Beaver Stadium on Sept. 27, and Notre Dame hosting USC in college football’s “greatest intersectional rivalry” on Oct. 18.
COLLEGE COUNTDOWN PRESENTED BY GENESIS
Host Ahmed Fareed, analyst Joshua Perry, and Nicole Auerbach return to NBC Sports’ college football studio show, with Football Night in America’s Chris Simms joining as an analyst throughout the season.
Fareed, who will also anchor NBC Sports’ Monday night NBA studio coverage following the college football season, serves as a host and reporter on a variety of events and properties across NBC Sports, including the Olympics, horse racing, and Premier League. Perry, a former Ohio State linebacker, helped the team win the inaugural College Football Playoff National Championship in 2014 and spent two seasons in the NFL. Simms played quarterback at the University of Texas (1999-2002) and had an eight-year NFL career after being selected in the third round of the 2003 NFL Draft.
On-location each Saturday will be host Jordan Cornette alongside analysts Matt Casseland Robinson.
Cassel, a seventh-round pick out of USC in 2005, played quarterback in the NFL for 14 seasons, while Robinson, a 2006 fourth-round pick from Penn State, spent eight seasons in the NFL. Cornette, a four-year member of the Notre Dame basketball team, currently serves as an analyst, host, and reporter on a variety of events and properties across NBC Sports, such as college basketball and will serve as a courtside reporter when the NBA returns to NBC and debuts on Peacock this fall.
Big Ten College Countdown will lead into most Big Ten games on NBC/Peacock. In addition, College Countdown will lead into most Notre Dame Football games on NBC/Peacock.
