Dan Hicks officially named Notre Dame football play-by-play voice on NBC

The play-by-play voice for Notre Dame football games on NBC for the 2024 season has officially been revealed. Dan Hicks has landed the role, NBC announced on Tuesday.

Hicks is taking over for Jac Collinsworth, who was the play-by-play voice for the Fighting Irish each of the past two years.

Dan Hicks will be in the booth with former Cowboys coach Jason Garrett. The two will be accompanied by sideline reporter Zora Stephenson.

Hick is back in South Bend after previously calling Notre Dame games from 2013-16. Garrett and Stephenson have been on the Notre Dame NBC broadcasts for each of the past two seasons.

Dan Hicks has been with NBC since 1992. He has been the lead play-by-play voice for NBC’s coverage of the PGA Tour since 2000. He is also the announcer for swimming and skiing coverage at the Olympics.

As for other NBC college football broadcasting teams, the network announced that Noah Eagle, Todd Blackledge, and Kathryn Tappen will return to Big Ten Saturday Night.

In addition, Maria Taylor, Chris Simms, Joshua Perry and Nicole Auerbach will lead NBC’s College Countdown Pregame Show.

Notre Dame is entering its third season under head coach Marcus Freeman and expectations are high for the Irish.

The home slate that will be shown on NBC in 2024 includes Northern Illinois, Miami (OH), Louisville, Stanford, Florida State and Virginia. NBC will also broadcast Notre Dame’s matchup with Army, which will be played at Yankee Stadium.

Why Notre Dame’s offense will look ‘very different’ under Mike Denbrock

Dan Hicks and company should have a fun season of Notre Dame football to call this fall.

For the third time in three seasons, Notre Dame has had a change at offensive coordinator. This time, head coach Marcus Freeman was able to bring Mike Denbrock to South Bend coming off a phenomenal offensive season that he led at LSU.

As Tyler Horka of BlueandGold.com explained during an appearance on the Andy Staples Show, it’s going to be a very different-looking offense for the Irish in 2024 under Denbrock.

“It’s gonna look very different,” Tyler Horka said. “I liken it to a quote that Notre Dame’s defensive coordinator Al Golden actually gave us this weekend on Saturday, and he mentioned Mitchell Evans the number one tight end for Notre Dame, one of the best tight ends in the country, and then he said, ‘And the other two tight ends too.’”

Essentially, the quote is a signal that the offense will look notably different. In particular, it’s going to be a different approach to the personnel on the field, adding more outside threats at any given time.

“Well, Notre Dame has six scholarship tight ends and we’ve been used to seeing sometimes three or four of them on the field at the same time. I mean, you’re going all the way down to Davis Sherwood playing the H-back role with two other tight ends on the field,” Horka said. “Now, I think you’re gonna see Mitchell Evans out there by himself. You might see Cooper Flanagan, Eli Raridon, out there by themselves. Two tight ends maybe. But, Andy, this is kind of the difference in the Mike Denbrock offense compared to what we saw with Tommy Rees and Gerad Parker.”