We’re still waiting to see whether there will be any sort of a fall Big Ten season after it was shelved last month, but the majority of the college football world is moving on.
Last season, FOX launched its Big Noon Kickoff Show featuring — among others — former Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer. It was a resounding success. FOX also experimented with pitting its biggest televised game of the week right after the show in the Noon window and that too resulted in ratings’ gold.
With former USC players Matt Leinart and Reggie Bush, along with Central Ohio native Brady Quinn and host Rob Stone, the crew meshes well with Meyer for a result in chemistry and analysis you can’t force.
And now, the show was so popular in its first year that the network has announced plans to expand the show form one-hour to two beginning this fall.
This fall, BIG NOON gets even bigger 🕛
Saturdays start on FOX with two hours of BIG NOON KICKOFF featuring @CoachUrbanMeyer, @ReggieBush, @MattLeinartQB, @Brady_Quinn and @RobStoneONFOX ahead of the BIG NOON SATURDAY game of the week.
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— FOX Sports PR (@FOXSportsPR) September 1, 2020
There’s a depressive nature to this announcement too, however. Normally most of these games would be Big Ten affairs no doubt highlighted by Ohio State in the window several times this fall. But, with everything in doubt in the Big Ten, we’ll all get to see Meyer and gang talk for a couple of hours without analysis of the Buckeyes.
Not ideal.
Unless that is … something materializes with the renewed talks and potential reversal of course by the Big Ten. Either way, Big Noon Kickoff now being a two-hour long show give college football fans in general something to look forward to.
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