ABC college bowl game broadcasts

Main articles: College football on television, ESPN College Football on ABC, and List of ESPN College Football on ABC personalities

ABC has been airing college football since acquiring the NCAA contract in 1966. Chris Schenkel and Bud Wilkinson were the number one broadcast team through 1973. Keith Jackson, its best-known college football play-by-play man, announced games from 1966 through 2005 on ABC (and for 14 years before that for various outlets), and was considered by many to be "the voice of college football." Jackson was ABC's lead play-by play man for 25 years, from 1974 through 1998. He originally was to retire after the 1999 Fiesta Bowl, but agreed to remain on a more restricted schedule (primarily broadcasting West Coast games) and remained with ABC through the 2006 Rose Bowl.

Major bowl games

Main articles: New Year's Six and Bowl Championship Series on television and radio

From 1999 to 2006 (1998-2005 seasons), all games of the Bowl Championship Series^[1] were televised by ABC Sports. Generally, coverage consisted of two games on New Year's Day, one on January 2, and one on either January 3 or 4. ABC paid nearly $25 million per year for the broadcast rights to the Fiesta, Sugar and Orange bowls during that time.^[2] Overall, the contract was worth $550 million over the eight years for all the bowl games.^[3]

Starting with the 2006 season, coverage would be split between ABC and Fox. Fox paid for each bowl game US$20 million.^[4] Four of the BCS bowl games were on FOX: the Orange Bowl, Sugar Bowl, Fiesta Bowl, and a new fifth game, the BCS National Championship Game. ABC will continue to broadcast the Rose Bowl Game. ABC had a $300 million eight-year contract that extends to 2014 for the broadcast rights for the Rose Bowl.^[3]

In 2007, ABC and Fox showed one game each on January 1, Fox then showed one game each on January 2 and 3 and came back with the championship game on January 8. A similar schedule is planned for future years.

Fox showed all BCS championship games the first three years of the contract, while in 2010 the Rose Bowl stadium was the location of the BCS Championship game, and ABC televised it.

Fiesta Bowl

Further information: List of Fiesta Bowl broadcasters

From 1999 to 2006, the game aired on ABC as part of the first BCS package.

Date	Network	Play-by-play	Color commentator(s)	Sideline reporter(s)
January 2, 2006	ABC	Brent Musburger	Gary Danielson	Jack Arute
January 1, 2005				Lynn Swann
January 2, 2004		Tim Brant	Ed Cunningham	Sam Ryan
January 3, 2003		Keith Jackson	Dan Fouts	Todd Harris and Lynn Swann
January 1, 2002		Brent Musburger	Gary Danielson	Jack Arute
January 1, 2001		Sean McDonough	Ed Cunningham	Leslie Gudel
January 2, 2000		Tim Brant	Dean Blevins
January 4, 1999		Keith Jackson	Bob Griese	Lynn Swann

Orange Bowl

Further information: List of Orange Bowl broadcasters

ABC held the rights to the event from 1962 to 1964 and again from 1999 to 2006.

Date	Network	Play-by-play	Color commentator	Sideline reporters
January 3, 2006	ABC	Mike Tirico	Kirk Herbstreit	Erin Andrews
January 4, 2005		Brad Nessler	Bob Griese	Lynn Swann and Todd Harris
January 1, 2004				Lynn Swann
January 2, 2003		Tim Brant	Ed Cunningham	Sam Ryan
January 2, 2002		Brad Nessler	Bob Griese	Lynn Swann
January 3, 2001				Lynn Swann and Jack Arute
January 1, 2000				Lynn Swann
January 2, 1999			Gary Danielson	Dean Blevins
January 1, 1964	ABC	Curt Gowdy	Paul Christman
January 1, 1963				Jim McKay
January 1, 1962				Paul Christman

Peach Bowl

Further information: List of Peach Bowl broadcasters

Date	Network	Play-by-play announcers	Color commentators	Sideline reporters
December 29, 1990	ABC	Steve Zabriskie	Lynn Swann	Susan Hunt
December 30, 1989		Gary Bender	Dick Vermeil

Rose Bowl

Further information: List of Rose Bowl Game broadcasters

From 1989 to 2010, the game was broadcast on ABC, usually at 2 p.m. PST; the 2005 edition was the first one broadcast in HDTV. Beginning in 2007, FOX had the broadcast rights to the other Bowl Championship Series games, but the Rose Bowl, which negotiates its own television contract independent of the BCS, had agreed to keep the game on ABC.

Beginning with the 2010 season, ESPN (majority-owned by ABC's parent company, The Walt Disney Company) now broadcasts all the BCS/CFP games, including the Rose Bowl game.^[5][6]

Date	Network	Play-by-play	Color commentator(s)	Sideline reporter(s)
January 1, 2010[7]	ABC[8]	Brent Musburger[9]	Kirk Herbstreit	Lisa Salters
January 1, 2009[10][11]
January 1, 2008
January 1, 2007[12]			Bob Davie and Kirk Herbstreit
January 4, 2006[13]		Keith Jackson[14]	Dan Fouts	Todd Harris and Holly Rowe
January 1, 2005[15][16][17]				Todd Harris
January 1, 2004[18]
January 1, 2003[19]		Brent Musburger	Gary Danielson	Jack Arute
January 3, 2002		Keith Jackson	Tim Brant	Todd Harris and Lynn Swann
January 1, 2001[20]				Todd Harris
January 1, 2000[21][22]			Dan Fouts
January 1, 1999[23]			Bob Griese	Lynn Swann
January 1, 1998[24][25]
January 1, 1997[26][27][28]		Brent Musburger	Dick Vermeil	Jack Arute
January 1, 1996[29][30][31][32]		Keith Jackson	Bob Griese	Lynn Swann
January 2, 1995
January 1, 1994[33]
January 1, 1993[34][35][36]		Brent Musburger	Dick Vermeil
January 1, 1992[37][38]		Keith Jackson	Bob Griese
January 1, 1991
January 1, 1990				Mike Adamle and Jack Arute
January 2, 1989[39][40][41][42][43][44]				Mike Adamle

Sugar Bowl

Further information: List of Sugar Bowl broadcasters

From 1999 to 2006, the game aired on ABC as part of its BCS package, where it had also been televised from 1969 through 1998. The Sugar Bowl was the only Bowl Alliance game to stick with ABC following the 1995, 1996 and 1997 seasons; the Fiesta and Orange Bowls were televised by CBS.

Date	Network	Play-by-play	Color commentator(s)	Sideline reporter(s)
January 2, 2006	ABC	Brad Nessler	Bob Griese	Lynn Swann
January 3, 2005		Mike Tirico	Tim Brant and Terry Bowden	Suzy Shuster
January 4, 2004		Brent Musburger	Gary Danielson	Jack Arute and Lynn Swann
January 1, 2003		Brad Nessler	Bob Griese	Lynn Swann
January 1, 2002		Mike Tirico	David Norrie	Jerry Punch
January 2, 2001		Brent Musburger	Gary Danielson	Jack Arute
January 4, 2000				Jack Arute and Lynn Swann
January 1, 1999			Dan Fouts	Jack Arute
January 1, 1998
January 2, 1997		Keith Jackson	Bob Griese	Lynn Swann
December 31, 1995		Mark Jones	Todd Blackledge	Dean Blevins
January 2, 1995		Brent Musburger	Dick Vermeil
January 1, 1994
January 1, 1993		Keith Jackson	Bob Griese
January 1, 1992		Al Michaels	Frank Gifford and Dan Dierdorf
January 1, 1991
January 1, 1990				Lynn Swann
January 2, 1989
January 1, 1988		Keith Jackson	Bob Griese	Mike Adamle
January 1, 1987			Tim Brant
January 1, 1986				Frank Broyles
January 1, 1985
January 2, 1984
January 1, 1983			Jim Lampley
January 1, 1982			Bill Flemming
January 1, 1981
January 1, 1980				Ara Parseghian
January 1, 1979			Frank Broyles	Jim Lampley
January 1, 1978			Ara Parseghian
January 1, 1977
December 31, 1975			Bud Wilkinson
December 31, 1974			Barry Switzer
December 31, 1973		Chris Schenkel	Bud Wilkinson and Howard Cosell
December 31, 1972			Bud Wilkinson
January 1, 1972
January 1, 1971
January 1, 1970

Other bowl games

Citrus Bowl

Further information: List of Citrus Bowl broadcasters

The bowl has been broadcast by Mizlou (1976–1983), NBC (1984–1985), and ABC since then, with the exception of ESPN for the 2011 and 2012 editions.^[45]

Gator Bowl

Date	Network	Play-by-play	Color commentator(s)	Sideline reporter(s)
December 30, 1985	ABC	Al Michaels	Lee Grosscup	Al Trautwig
December 28, 1984				Lynn Swann
December 30, 1983			Frank Broyles	Tim Brant
December 30, 1982			Lee Grosscup	Anne Simon
December 28, 1981			Ara Parseghian	Steve Davis
December 29, 1980
December 28, 1979		Keith Jackson	Frank Broyles	Dave Diles
December 29, 1978			Ara Parseghian
December 30, 1977			Frank Broyles
December 27, 1976			Ara Parseghian
December 29, 1975
December 30, 1974
December 29, 1973
December 30, 1972		Bill Flemming	Lee Grosscup
December 28, 1968	ABC
December 30, 1967		Keith Jackson	Bud Wilkinson
December 31, 1966		Chris Schenkel		Bill Flemming
December 31, 1965			Johnny Lujack
January 2, 1965		Curt Gowdy	Paul Christman

Las Vegas Bowl

Further information: List of Las Vegas Bowl broadcasters

The Las Vegas Bowl has been televised by ABC since 2013; ABC also televised the game in 2001. Other editions of the game were broadcast by ESPN or ESPN2.^[46]

Liberty Bowl

Further information: List of Liberty Bowl broadcasters

Since 1990, the game has been broadcast predominantly by ESPN, with some editions on ABC.^[47]

Date	Network	Play-by-play	Color Commentator(s)	Sideline Reporter(s)
December 30, 2017	ABC	Mike Patrick	Tommy Tuberville
December 31, 2011	ABC	Dave LaMont	Ray Bentley	Quint Kessenich
December 30, 1995	ABC
December 27, 1980	ABC	Jim Lampley	Steve Davis
December 22, 1979		Keith Jackson	Ara Parseghian	Verne Lundquist
December 23, 1978[48]		Chris Schenkel
December 19, 1977		Keith Jackson	Frank Broyles
December 20, 1976			Ara Parseghian
December 20, 1971		Chris Schenkel	Bud Wilkinson
December 12, 1970
December 13, 1969		Chris Schenkel	Bud Wilkinson

See also

• CBS college bowl game broadcasts
• Fox college bowl game broadcasts
• NBC college bowl game broadcasts