Ohio State is No. 1 in the first regular season Amway Coaches Poll, but a new No. 2 has emerged.
In the fourth quarter of a blowout college football game last Friday night, the announcers threw the broadcast back to the ESPN studios for an important development, accompanied by a highlight. Western Michigan’s touchdown only pulled the Broncos within three scores of Michigan State, so it wasn’t exactly a game-changing play — unless, that is, someone was playing a different sort of game.
As theme music played and a small graphic appeared — “COVER ALERT” — here was anchor Adnan Virk’s report:
“That’s right, a ‘cover alert’!