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ESPN shakes up college football telecast roles

The reported departure of Brad Nessler along with Mike Tirico at ESPN has caused quite the shake-up at the worldwide leader.

With college football announcer Sean McDonough now hired as the new play-by-play voice for ESPN's Monday Night Football, other changes needed to occur before the start of the college football season that sits 100 days away.

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ESPN announced Tuesday the new telecast roles for the 2016 season that features Samantha Ponder joining the ABC Saturday Night Football telecast with play-by-play commentator Chris Fowler and analyst Kirk Herbstreit.