The stars are usually front and center for any television broadcast of a top 10 showdown in college football. But Fox has added perhaps the biggest star of all when they bring us the second all-time meeting between the No. 3 Texas Longhorns and No. 10 Michigan Wolverines.
Tom Brady is a seven-time Super Bowl champion quarterback, but before that, he was a Michigan Wolverine team captain; now, he will voice the tease for the Fox broadcast and then appear during halftime of the game.
Tom Brady Will Join Fox’s Broadcast of Texas at Michigan
Widely considered the greatest football player of all time, Brady is entering his first season in the broadcast booth as Fox Sports’ lead NFL color commentator. He will make his debut alongside play-by-play partner Kevin Burkhardt on Sunday when the Dallas Cowboys travel to Cleveland to take on the Browns.
The GOAT enjoyed a gap year following his NFL retirement before starting as Fox Sports’ $375 million analyst. The network has tried to lighten the expectations on Brady by limiting most of his official media coverage, though they probably see a trip to see his alma mater try to extend the nation’s longest active win streak as a soft landing area.
Saturday marks an even 600 days since Brady’s last NFL game when he completed 35 of 66 passes against the Cowboys for 351 yards in a 31-14 loss in the Wild Card Round. Now in possession of the most lucrative known sports commentator contract of all time, Brady is prepared to call Fox’s broadcast of Super Bowl 59 on Feb. 9 in New Orleans.
Brady Returns to The Big House on Saturday
Before he became the NFL’s all-time winningest quarterback, earned five Super Bowl MVPs, and set league records for completions, yards, and touchdowns, Brady was a quarterback at Michigan.
In his four years in Ann Arbor, Mich., the Wolverines went 40-9, including a 20-5 record when Brady moved into a starting role as a junior, when the Wolverines won a share of the Big Ten title, and as a senior, when the Wolverines defeated Alabama in the Orange Bowl. Before that, he was the backup to Brian Griese on the Wolverines’ 1997 national championship-winning team.
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