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College Football Playoff announcers: Meet the broadcasters for CFP games on TNT, ABC, ESPN – Sporting News

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Dan Treacy
As more teams get the opportunity to play in the College Football Playoff, so do more announcers.
Each of the first two rounds of the playoff is made up of four games, forcing networks to expand their coverage of the playoff and bring in some new faces to make their playoff debuts in the booth.
Playoff expansion has turned late December into a football bonanza. Who will be narrating it?
Here’s a look at the College Football Playoff announcers and which games they will be calling.
MORE: Expert picks for College Football Playoff
Six broadcast teams are set to call College Football Playoff games, according to ESPN:
The duo of Fowler and Herbstreit has been a staple of the College Football Playoff since its inception. Fowler and Herbstreit were in the booth when Ohio State won the first playoff after the 2014 season, and they are set to call games in all four rounds in this expanded playoff, starting with Tennessee-Ohio State.
Jones and Jones, no relation, have been calling games together throughout the season and are set to make their College Football Playoff debuts in the booth when Penn State hosts Clemson in the first round. Mark Jones is a longtime play-by-play broadcaster who also calls NBA games for ESPN and ABC, while Roddy Jones played football at Georgia Tech and joined ESPN as an analyst in 2017.
McDonough is a jack-of-all trades, calling everything from college football to the Stanley Cup Final, and he is no stranger to the College Football Playoff. He called Washington’s semifinal win over Texas last week. McElroy, a longtime analyst at ESPN, served as Alabama’s starting quarterback from 2009-10 and had a brief NFL stint with the Jets. They will call Indiana-Notre Dame in the first round. 
Pasch joined ESPN more than two decades ago and is making his College Football Playoff debut after calling games throughout the regular season. Pasch is also a staple of ESPN’s college basketball coverage along with the NBA. Dvoracek, a former player at Oklahoma, spent the season working alongside Pasch. They’ll be on the call for Texas-Clemson in the first round.
Tessitore has plenty of big-game experience, including a stint as the “Monday Night Football” play-by-play broadcaster, and he got a tune-up for the playoff when he called Georgia’s eight-overtime win over Georgia Tech in November. Palmer, of “The Bachelor” fame, has been an analyst at ESPN since 2007. They will be on the call for Arizona State’s second-round game against either Texas or Clemson.
Wischusen joined ESPN in 2005 and has long been a play-by-play broadcaster for both college football and college basketball. Also the radio voice of the Jets since 2002, Wischusen will work alongside longtime ESPN analyst Louis Riddick. Riddick happens to be interviewing for the Jets’ general manager job, as well, so he and Wischusen could soon have another connection. They’ll call Boise Sate’s second-round game against Penn State or SMU.
MORE: Full list of locations for College Football Playoff locations
Dan Treacy is a content producer for Sporting News, joining in 2022 after graduating from Boston University. He founded @allsportsnews on Instagram in 2012 and has written for Lineups and Yardbarker.

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A New Argument For Preserving ‘Space Junk’ Left On Mars – Science Friday

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Over the past 60 years or so of space exploration, humans have left some things behind: bits of satellites, moon buggies, Mars rovers, even human excrement. It’s all part of the countless bits of human-made material that some people have dubbed “space junk.”
But what if, many, many years from now, archeologists wanted to trace the chronology of space exploration by examining the items we left in our wake? A new paper in the journal Nature Astronomy argues just this, that artifacts should be considered heritage, rather than trash.
Lead author Dr. Justin Holcomb, assistant research professor at the University of Kansas, joins Ira to discuss shifting our mindset on “space junk.”
Dr. Justin Holcomb is an assistant research professor at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas.
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VR Remake of Dreamcast Classic ‘Cosmic Smash’ to Release on Quest & Pico in April – Road to VR

Sega’s iconic block-breaker Cosmic Smash (2001) came to VR for the first time last summer in C-Smash VRS (2023) on PSVR 2. Now the studios say the futuristic racket sport is set to leave platform exclusivity as it’s scheduled to arrive on Quest and Pico headsets in April.

Studios RapidEyeMovers and Wolf & Wood announced C-Smash VRS is coming to Quest 2/3/Pro and Pico 4 starting on April 4th.
Players of the game will also see some new features, including the addition of cross-platform Global Leaderboards which will let players challenge one another’s top positions across multiple game modes.

The studios say we can also look forward to cross-platform multiplayer at some point, as it’s certainly “on the future roadmap,” but no word on when.
You may remember the original when it launched on Sega Dreamcast in 2001, or when it came to arcades throughout Europe and Japan. C-Smash VRS brings an immersive twist to Cosmic Smash’s low gravity squash-meets-blockbreaker gameplay, including single player, co-op, 1v1 multiplayer modes, and an AI vs. mode.
In addition to expanding the racket sport to other VR platforms, C-Smash VRS will also give new users a nostalgic taste of Cosmic Smash’s iconic OST, bringing an inspired score by DJ Ken Ishii (Rez Infinite), Danalogue (The Comet is Coming, Soccer 96), and UK music legends UNKLE.
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I’ve been waiting for this announcement. Really liked the demo on PSVR2 and I refrained from port begging to not take away from the momentum of the release on that platform, but this kind of active game is really better suited for a wireless headset.
I want house of the dead vr 🙁
I want Panzer Dragoon VR. They said they were doing that, but I think it died on the vine.
I hope it comes to Steam with graphical enhancements, but glad it’s not exclusive anymore. Hope we also get Astrobot from the PSVR1 and other PSVR2 exclusives.

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