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FOX Sports announces Week 0 and Week 1 game assignments
By Keith Farner
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FOX Sports is out with its game assignments for the first 2 weeks of the season.
The No. 1 team of Gus Johnson, Joel Klatt and Jenny Taft will have Week 1 from Minneapolis with Nebraska at Minnesota on Thursday, Aug. 31 at 8 p.m. ET on FOX, followed by Colorado at TCU on Saturday, Sept. 2 at noon ET on FOX.
Play-by-play announcer Jason Benetti, former NFL quarterback Brock Huard and reporter Allison Williams will be on the call for Rice at Texas on Saturday, Sept. 2 at 3:30 p.m. ET on FOX.
Tim Brando and Spencer Tillman will start with Ohio and San Diego State from San Diego at 7 p.m. on Saturday on FS1. The duo then will call Central Michigan at Michigan State on Friday, Sept. 1 at 7 p.m. ET on FS1.
Former Oregon coach Mark Helfrich and play-by-play announcer Jeff Levering pair for Utah State at Iowa on Saturday, Sept. 2 at noon ET on FS1.
On Thursday, Aug. 31, former Michigan QB Devin Gardner and play-by-play broadcaster Eric Collins will call Kent State at UCF at 7 p.m. ET on FS1. Then on Sept. 2, Gardner and Collins team up for Buffalo at Wisconsin at 3:30 p.m. ET on FS1.
Former USC standout Petros Papadakis and play-by-play announcer Alex Faust will call Sam Houston at BYU on Saturday, Sept. 2 at 10:15 PM ET on FS1.
Chris Myers and former NFL running back Robert Smith will call UTSA at Houston on Sept. 2 at 7 p.m. ET on FS1.
Keith Farner has written about college football for newspapers and web sites since 2005.