Kirk Herbstreit apologizes for social media post about ‘not having college football’ on Saturday of Army-Navy game
By Andrew Olson
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Kirk Herbstreit says that a mistake made on his social media account is being taken the wrong way, and he’s apologizing to college football programs that felt disrespected.
Promoting his podcast Nonstop with Joey Galloway, in a since-deleted post, Herbstreit’s account posted a clip with the caption “Saturday not having college football threw us for a loop.” The ESPN personalities were referring to not having to work any games on the weekend between conference championships and the College Football Playoff, giving them their first “off” Saturday since August.
There were, of course, college football games played this past Saturday, including the Army-Navy game and the LA Bowl. Navy football’s official account quoted Herbstreit’s post with a photo from the game. In a lengthy social post, Herbstreit apologized to programs that felt disrespected while also explaining that the caption was widely taken out of context as it related to the clip from Nonstop.
“Just wanted to address a mistake that we made on my socials earlier this week related to last weekends CFB Saturday,” Herbstreit wrote. “We posted a video where @Joey_Galloway and I were talking about how strange it was to be home and not traveling on a CFB weekend since end of August and how we felt like we didn’t know what to do with ourselves. We posted the video with a caption that was very misleading about ‘weird not having any CFB this weekend’. Some took that out of context and ran with it-that’s on me..my apologies for any disrespect (albeit unintentional) to the teams that played last weekend-especially @ArmyWP_Football and @NavyFB.
“Not sure there is a game I personally look forward to more EVERY year than Army and Navy-they play for the love for each other and love for the game-and anybody who has ever watched me for the last 30 years on TV knows how I feel about that game. Sorry for any confusion and again any disrespect that this created-it was a simple case of miscommunication.”
Herbstreit will be on the call for Friday’s CFP showdown between No. 9 Alabama and No. 8 Oklahoma.
Just wanted to address a mistake that we made on my socials earlier this week related to last weekends CFB Saturday. We posted a video where @Joey_Galloway and I were talking about how strange it was to be home and not traveling on a CFB weekend since end of August and how we… pic.twitter.com/Vb4k4jeJQS
— Kirk Herbstreit (@KirkHerbstreit) December 17, 2025
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