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FOX Sports’ Big Noon Kickoff expanding heading into Year 2
By Keith Farner
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Even without the Big Ten playing this season, FOX Sports is moving ahead with plans to expand its pregame show, “Big Noon Kickoff” in its second season.
It is expanding from one hour to two hours this season, The New York Post reported. This will increase its competition with one of the all-time pregame shows, ESPN’s “College GameDay” — which runs from 9 a.m.-noon. The cast at FOX features Urban Meyer, Reggie Bush, Matt Leinart, Brady Quinn and Rob Stone.
Andrew Marchand of The Post reported that “Fox’s strategy to focus on the noon game window proved to be a success and finally gave it a strong, coordinated time slot that CBS has with the SEC in late afternoons, NBC possesses with Notre Dame and ESPN/ABC have had with its onslaught of coverage that leads into its prime-time lineup.”
While there will be no Michigan-Ohio State game, “Big Noon Kickoff” is expected to lead into the Red River Showdown, between Oklahoma and Texas on Oct. 10. Its first game of the season is expected to be Baylor versus Louisiana Tech on Sept. 12. It is the debut of Bears coach Dave Aranda, the former LSU defensive coordinator.
“Big Noon Kickoff” will broadcast from its Los Angeles studios and is unlikely to go on the road, as it did last year, Marchand wrote.
A former newspaper veteran, Keith Farner is a news manager for Saturday Down South.
