Joe Tessitore is known not only for calling college football games, but also delivering memorable moments that have been dubbed, “The Tess Effect.”

Tessitore on the “Always College Football” podcast with Greg McElroy explained what makes something worthy of “The Tess Effect,” which the broadcaster said somebody brought up years ago.

“I caught a wave going back 12 years ago, maybe longer, when funny things happened when I was in a booth,” he said. “People ran with it, then people started looking for it, and then every overtime game …”

He then rattled off the Boise State-Nevada game between Kellen Moore and Colin Kaepernick, or the Penn State-Michigan game that went 4 overtimes, and the narrative built behind overtime games and “classic finishes.”

“I think also my style, on the spectrum of broadcasters, to self-assess, I think I am definitely on the side of the spectrum of engaged, passionate, crazy,” he said. “I think Gus Johnson and Brent Musberger, Keith Jackson if you really think about him in his era was a big (broadcaster). That’s the side I lean on, which marries up to college football very well. So when you get these bigger moments, perhaps, I don’t want to say embellished, but are amplified a little more.”

Tessitore summarized it by saying that his style fits college football very well.