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Spend Your College Football Saturdays with Brady Quinn!

By J.P. Scott

SOUTH BEND, IN - NOVEMBER 4: Quarterback Brady Quinn #10 of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish runs onto the field before the game against the North Carolina Tar Heels on November 4, 2006 at Notre Dame Stadium in South Bend, Indiana. (Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images)
SOUTH BEND, IN - NOVEMBER 4: Quarterback Brady Quinn #10 of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish runs onto the field before the game against the North Carolina Tar Heels on November 4, 2006 at Notre Dame Stadium in South Bend, Indiana. (Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images) /
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Former Notre Dame quarterback Brady Quinn will be part of a new college football pregame show airing on Fox.

This past week, Fox Sports announced that they would be launching their own college football pregame show this fall. The show will air for one hour and will feature some of the biggest names from college football from the 21st century. Former Notre Dame quarterback Brady Quinn will be part of the broadcast team.

Quinn will be joined on the set by former USC Heisman Trophy winners Matt Leinart and Reggie Bush, former Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer and hosted by Fox college football analyst Rob Stone.

Some have scoffed at the notion that such a show could compete with ESPN’s College Gameday, but I don’t believe that’s Fox’s goal. I think they just want a small, profitable slice of that viewership pie.

The length and timing of the show with lends itself more to X’s and O’s analysis of specific games that will air later that day on the Fox Sports family of networks — which includes BTN. Two of Notre Dame’s 2019 games — at Michigan and at Stanford — will likely air on the Fox networks.

That — in my opinion — is a brilliant move. It establishes the show as a viable alternative to ESPN’s show, which is long and often filled with emotional and socially relevant stories and segments that don’t really have much to do with the actual games.

Fox’s show — on the other hand — is going to be a football show about football for football fans.

Additionally, don’t discount where each of the cast members played or coached. ESPN has long come under fired for its relationship/love for the SEC and recently the ACC. Fans from the rest of the country routinely criticize the show and network for that bias. Those who tune in to the Fox show will notice that the hosts are from the Pac-12, Big Ten and Notre Dame. The expectation from fans tuning into the show will be a greater focus on those particular teams and conferences, as well as a concerted effort to take those teams more seriously than ESPN has been known to do in recent years.

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With Brady Quinn on the panel, many Notre Dame fans are sure to give the show a look. As an X’s and O’s guy myself who watches sports as an escape from the social battles and drama we seem to face every day in our country, a one-hour show about football and only football sounds fantastic.

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