NBC announces broadcast crew for 2023 Notre Dame football games
If you’re watching a Notre Dame football game from home this fall, it’ll sound a lot like it did in 2022. NBC announced Wednesday that Jac Collinsworth and Jason Garrett will be in the booth at Notre Dame Stadium for the second consecutive season.
Collinsworth is the play-by-play man. Garrett is the analyst. They’ll be joined by sideline reporter Zora Stephenson. Terry McAulay will be the rules expert. NBC is going with Noah Eagle (play-by-play), Todd Blackledge (analyst) and Kathryn Tappen (sidelines) for its “Big Ten Saturday Nights” package, meanwhile.
Collinsworth, 28, is a Notre Dame alum who worked on the “Notre Dame on NBC” sideline production team as a student from 2013-17. His first job after graduation was at ESPN, where he started as a features reporter for “Sunday NFL Countdown.” He also hosted “NFL Live” in the offseason and ACC Network’s “The Huddle.”
Collinsworth returned to NBC in 2020 as the co-host of Football Night in America. He also hosted the pre- and post-game show for Notre Dame games. Outside of football season, Collinsworth is a face of NASCAR on NBC as well as a premier voice for Atlantic 10 men’s basketball. Collinsworth is the son of “Sunday Night Football” analyst Cris Collinsworth and the brother of former Notre Dame defensive back Austin Collinsworth.
Garrett, 57, was a longtime NFL quarterback for a plethora of teams, including the Dallas Cowboys. He was Troy Aikman’s backup for several seasons. Garrett became the Cowboys’ interim head coach in 2010 and held onto the job until 2019. He was the New York Giants’ offensive coordinator in 2020 and 2021. Garrett graduated from Princeton in 1989. He holds the Ivy League record for career completion percentage (66.5 percent).
Stephenson is best known for being a Milwaukee Bucks sideline reporter. She became the first woman to handle play-by-play duties for a Bucks game in 2021. She also was an Emmy Award-winning news anchor and reporter for local TV stations in Denver and Greenville, N.C. Stephenson graduated from Elon University in 2015. She was a three-year starter on the Elon basketball team, and she set the single-season three-point percentage record (42.3 percent) in 2011-12.
The 2023 Notre Dame football season kicks off at Aviva Stadium in Dublin, Ireland, on Aug. 26. Collinsworth, Garrett and Stephenson will be on the call. They will also call the following games in South Bend.
- Sept. 2: vs. Tennessee State (3:30 p.m. ET)
- Sept. 16: vs. Central Michigan (2:30 p.m. ET exclusively on Peacock)
- Sept. 23: vs. Ohio State (7:30 p.m. ET)
- Oct. 14: vs. USC (7:30 p.m. ET)
- Oct. 28: vs. Pittsburgh (3:30 p.m. ET)
- Nov. 18: vs. Wake Forest (3:30 p.m. ET)
