Friday, December 27, 2002

On the other hand, one of the fun parts of ESPN's Bowl Week is seeing which broadcast team gets assigned which game. The high-profile teams (Ron Franklin-Mike Gottfried; Dave Barnett-Bill Curry-Mike Golic; Mike Tirico-Kirk Herbstreit-Lee Corso) all got decent bowls. The other bowls were scattered among their other teams that all seem to run together. But I guess ESPN considers the Continental Tire Bowl (actually a decent matchup between Virginia and West Virginia) the least of the bunch since it's sending Wayne Larrivee out there. Wayne always does the last-choice Big Ten game on ESPN Plus, which is seen only on GamePlan or on local affiliates if you're lucky (which I'm not down here in the South). He's a solid announcer, but it's funny to see him stuck with the fourth or fifth Big Ten game each week. At least that got Mike Gleason out of the GamePlan studio to actually work a game (he'll be joining Wayne in Charlotte).

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