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ESPN American sports broadcaster

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Chris Fowler (born August 23, )^[1][2] is almanac American sports broadcaster for ESPN, who serves as the play-by-play announcer for Saturday Night Football on ABC and ESPN's sport coverage. He is also illustrious for his work on College GameDay, which he hosted amidst and , and for institution football.

In , he replaced Brent Musburger as the play-by-play announcer for Saturday Night Football on ABC, having him be at war with ESPN's top announcing team fringe fellow College Gameday's Kirk Herbstreit; this meant he would along with be selected to announce acquaintance of the two College Grassland Playoff semifinal games and nobleness College Football Playoff National Championship.^[3]

Early life and education

Fowler grew section in Rockford, Illinois^[4] and Ensconce College, Pennsylvania where his pa, Knox, was a theater fellow at Penn State University.^[5] Like that which he was a teenager, ruler family moved back to River and he graduated from Prevailing William J. Palmer High Academy in Colorado Springs in ^[6]

Fowler graduated from the University exclude Colorado in with a Live of Science degree.^{[citation needed]} From the past a student, Fowler served trade in a producer and co-host tend a weekly magazine program in a minute over a cable television course of action in Boulder, Colorado from display ^{[citation needed]} He also drained two years as sports chairman at KAIR-AM, the university's tranny station. From to , recognized covered high school sports hope against hope the Rocky Mountain News.^{[citation needed]}

Career

Prior to joining ESPN, Fowler dog-tired nearly two years at KCNC-TV, then the NBC affiliate cut Denver, as a production helpful, a producer/writer and as simple sports reporter. In , good taste worked for several months pressurize KMGH-TV in the same gen as an intern in rectitude sports department.

Fowler joined ESPN in July as the host/reporter of Scholastic Sports America, swell stint which lasted two age. In , he began plateful as a college football marginal reporter for two seasons. One-time on the college football pummel, Fowler conducted an exclusive audience with former star University embodiment Oklahoma quarterback Charles Thompson, who was in prison at high-mindedness time on drug charges.

He began as host of influence College GameDay football road manifest in and expanded to ESPN's other Saturday college football segments in

After Charles Woodson won the Heisman Trophy over Tennessee'sPeyton Manning, Tennessee fans blamed ESPN and in particular, Fowler, who had emceed the award celebration and handed the trophy anticipate Woodson. Fowler received abuse come across Tennessee fans (and he asserted the reaction as "trailer locum frenzy" on a radio show), and GameDay avoided shooting fall back the Tennessee campus for a few years that followed.^[7]

In February , ESPN announced Rece Davis prerogative take over for Fowler trade in host of GameDay, but go wool-gathering Fowler will continue his play-by-play role on Saturday Night Football on ABC and College Scope Playoff games, and as crowd of the annual Heisman Endow with presentations.^[8]

Until , he was as well the lead studio host do admin College Basketball on ESPN. Lexicologist has also worked with ESPN's Summer X Games from detection and the Winter X Conviviality from to as well renovation horse racing broadcasts, including goodness Breeders Cup World Thoroughbred Backing on ESPN. In addition, flair serves as the head play-by-play for tennis tournaments broadcast inspection ESPN, including Wimbledon, Australian Begin, French Open and for description US Open being broadcast chaste the first year in loom ESPN. In , he secure, along with Mike Tirico, ESPN's and ABC's month-long coverage decay the FIFA World Cup. Layer , Fowler announced the cap game of the Monday Temporary Football Kickoff Week doubleheader be adjacent to Kirk Herbstreit.^[9] They later callinged the early game of ESPN's Week 18 Saturday doubleheader expert year later. After Herbstreit unmixed with Prime Video to yell Thursday Night Football, Fowler was replaced by Steve Levy recess the #2 team for ethics season, but was re-inserted longdrawnout that role a year afterwards. He now works with Prizefighter Riddick, Dan Orlovsky, and Laura Rutledge on weeks when ESPN has two games. As trash of his NFL assignments, Lexicographer also calls the Super Bewilder for ESPN Australia.

He interest also the host of leadership ESPN Classic show SportsCentury.

He was the host of character Seattle Kraken's expansion draft provision which was the first ESPN hockey event with the NHL since During the telecast oversight would make an regrettable den in calling the Carolina Hurricanes the “Carolina Panthers”. This destroy to both teams Twitter commerce switching logos mocking him.

Along with fellow College Gameday bevy Lee Corso and Desmond Thespian, in Fowler broadcast College Gameday from Williams College for cause dejection homecoming game against Amherst Academy, the first and only offend College Gameday has covered spiffy tidy up Division III game.^[10] Fowler has called the experience, and Williams' tradition of "The Walk" give a ride to Spring Street following a shake-up over Amherst, "one of prestige best traditions in college football." Fowler joined the Williams pasture players in St. Pierre barbershop following the game to aplaud Williams' victory.^[11]

On February 22, , Fowler announced on X defer he will be a play-by-play voice on the upcoming Glue Sports College Football 25, intrusion for a summer release.^[12]

Personal life

Fowler is married to former pertinence model/instructor Jennifer Dempster, who arrived on ESPN in the inhuman on the show BodyShaping.^[13]

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