ESPN adds new personalities for its college football coverage

ESPN is changing things up a bit for the upcoming college football season, as it’s changing up the personalities you’ll be seeing for the games this year.

ESPN seemingly has endless new analysts coming in and out as each year rolls through for each sport, and it looks like they’re trying to revamp their college football coverage for the 2017-2018 season.

The network announced that they will be updating their commentator lineup across all of the networks where college football can be found, and we’ll see new faces for pregame, halftime and postgame action across ESPN, ESPN2 and ABC this year.

According to ESPN senior coordinating producer Lee Fitting, the moves were made to give college football fans some fresh looks into the sport, and mixing in some work and some play in the process.

“The personalities and college football experience in each of the three studios will provide the viewers the perfect dose of entertainment, perspective and insight,” Fitting said in the announcement. “Each studio will provide viewers something a little bit different, which is the perfect set up as fans watch a variety of games and networks each Saturday.”

There are a ton of changes coming on the network’s coverage, and we will see plenty of experienced insight coming in from all sorts of angles throughout the season.

For starters, Jesse Palmer’s new contract will have him working as a more regular name on ESPN, as he works alongside Joey Galloway as analysts and with Adnan Virk as an anchor in studio on Thursday through Saturday during the week.

We will see former Oregon coach Chip Kelly on ESPN2’s studio coverage for Saturdays, and he’ll be a guest on SportsCenter on Fridays and Sundays to round out the weekend and give knowledge of both the NFL and NCAA football.

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To round things out, SportsCenter anchor Kevin Negandhi will man a team alongside analysts Booger McFarland and Mack Brown on ABC for its studio coverage.

We’ve seen the network change up its teams across the board for NFL, MLB and plenty of other sports over the years, so it will be interesting to see if these moves work out for the group of networks, or if we’ll get even more changes if things don’t go as smoothly as planned.