Strongest comment: BTN’s Matt Millen on Penn State tight end Tyler Warren: "He looks like a taller John Riggins."

Top stat: ABC’s Dave Pasch telling viewers the average age of Oklahoma State’s is 24 and the 5 have a combined 215 combined starts.

Best Timing Award: ABC’s Dusty Dvoracek telling viewers to watch out for Oklahoma State’s Brennan Presley. Next play, Presley scored a touchdown.

PRA Gary Reasons is out due to being honored as one of the 100 greatest New York Giants for their opener tomorrow.

Top insight: ESPN’s Sam Acho after Cincinnati defense is called for a delay of game penalty, keeping a Pitt drive alive: "It's for having an abrupt movement to try to get the offense to move -- point of emphasis being emphasized."

Strongest comment: ABC’s Sean McDonough, with Gamecocks leading 10-3 late on the 1st half and giving the ball away on an interception: "The reality is both offenses have been poor."

Top analysis: ABC's Sean McDonough shares that when both teams offenses struggle, it is whichever commits fewer mistakes that wins. He then expounded that mistakes aren't just turnovers. It also refers to penalties, missed blocks, open receivers, and other flawed fundamentals.

Top stat: CBS Sports Adam Zucker telling viewers Iowa has its 26th - 1st Half shutout in the last decade.

Best stat: NBC Sports Dan Hicks telling viewers this is the first time that Northern Illinois has had a game on nationwide network television.

Funniest line: ABC’s Sean McDonough, as production scanned the empty seats and fans leaving Kroger Field, “A lot of the patrons have decided to go and do something else on this beautiful day.

Worst Timing Award: Kentucky HC Mark Stoops told ABC's Molly McGrath that they need to cut down on self-inflicted wounds. The next play made things worse as UK threw a pic six.

Around the Dial: ESPN+ will have Patrick Netherton & Tyler Moody on the call tonight for NSU/Prairie View A&M. Kickoff is 7pm ET. Because the season was canceled last year, this will NSU’s our first home game in 324 days (Thursday Oct 19, 2023 vs Southeastern La)

Around the Dial: Fox Sports will have the fun continue for the trio of Tim Brando, Devin Gardner and Josh Sims as they return to call the FNF Fox Network debut between between #20 Arizona/#14 Kansas State this Friday under the lights in Manhattan.

Best predictions: NBC FNIA cast of Maria Taylor, Chris Simms, Devin McCourty, Jason Garrett, Jac Collingsworth, Tony Dungy, Rodney Harrison, and Mike Florio all picked the Lions to win against the Rams on Sunday night. Perfect 8-0.

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Around the Dial: Fox Sports will have multi-sport star Kevin Kugler and Mr. Clutch EK (Eric Karros) on the call of San Diego/Seattle. The FS1 broadcast takes place tonight, at 9:30 PM.

Around the Dial: Fox's MLB Game of the Week broadcasts move to Thursday this week w/ Boston & the NY Yankees. Joe Davis, '96 Cy Young winner John Smoltz, & the captain of bowties Ken Rosenthal will provide the call Sept 12 at 6 PM.

Around the Dial: Tampa Bay/Cleveland is the Alternate Fox MLB Game of the Week on Sept 12 at 6 PM. The 3-man booth of Adam Amin, Fantasy Baseball nickname star Waino (Adam Wainwright) and The Polish Prince A.J. Pierzynski will provide the call.

Class act: Fox Sports paying homage to the late James Earl Jones. Fox played the epic scene of Jones in Field of Dreams with Kevin Costner. Chris Myers also mentioned Jones’ role in The Sandlot.