Loran Smith on ESPN’s Holly Rowe

Loran SmithHolly Rowe, one of the most accomplished women of our time, was in Athens recently doing her homework—not housework, but she does that, too, when such detail is required—about the start of football season.

When Georgia and Clemson line up for the forthcoming opening game in Charlotte next weekend, she will be on the field with the big boys, joining Chris Fowler and Kirk Herbstreit to help narrate the story of this renewed rivalry to a national television audience via the ABC network. She has joined ABC’s No. 1 college announce crew. No question, Holly has paid her dues. She belongs.

She is the doyenne of television sideline announcers, having become ESPN’s full-time football…