ESPN appears to have finally answered a question it left dangling earlier this summer.<\/p>\n
When the network confirmed that Chase Daniel would take over Jordan Rodgers\u2019 seat<\/a> on SEC Nation after Front Office Sports reported<\/a> that Rodgers would move into what was described only as an \u201celevated role\u201d with ESPN and ABC, the specifics weren\u2019t readily available. Now, we know that Aaron\u2019s brother will be calling Friday night college football alongside play-by-play voice Mike Monaco and sideline reporter Dana Boyle, according to FOS\u2019s Ryan Glasspiegel<\/a>.<\/p>\n Daniel took over the SEC Nation panel seat as part of a larger overhaul, joining new host Matt Barrie<\/a>, who is replacing Laura Rutledge as Rutledge shifts her focus<\/a> to NFL hosting duties and sideline reporting for top college football matchups. Daniel himself had hosted an NFL podcast at The Athletic<\/a> and co-hosted FS1\u2019s The Facility<\/a> before joining ESPN to call college football games<\/a> last season.<\/p>\n Rodgers spent nine seasons, dating to 2017, calling SEC Saturday Night alongside Tom Hart and Cole Cubelic, one of the longest-running commentary trios in the sport. Readers in AA\u2019s own 2025 college football announcer rankings<\/a> ranked the booth 11th out of 25, calling the trio \u201cthe best group you\u2019ve got\u201d and arguing they deserved a bigger national platform than SEC Saturday Night gave them. Rodgers is the only one of the three moving to that bigger platform; nothing has been announced about Hart or Cubelic\u2019s roles this season.<\/p>\n Monaco\u2019s ESPN workload already spans MLB, the NHL, college baseball, college basketball, the Little League World Series and, per FOS, tennis majors including Wimbledon, the US Open and the Australian Open. He also fills in on Boston Red Sox broadcasts for NESN. Awful Announcing covered his last contract renewal in 2023<\/a>, a three-year extension signed at age 30. That deal came shortly after ESPN lost two other versatile young broadcasters, Adam Amin and Jason Benetti \u2014 who has since left for NBC<\/a> \u2014 to Fox Sports. And Monaco has signed another multi-year deal, per FOS.<\/p>\n Boyle worked the ACC Network\u2019s primetime broadcast in 2025 alongside Wes Durham and analyst Steve Addazio. That pairing drew a 2.10 grade in AA\u2019s 2025 announcer rankings, 20th out of 25 teams, with readers largely praising Durham while singling out Addazio, who one reader said: \u201csounds like your confused uncle in the booth.\u201d Durham\u2019s own reputation held up regardless of who sat next to him; readers separately called him \u201cthe most prepared of anyone in the ESPN family.\u201d<\/p>\n Durham has now had four different primetime analysts in as many seasons, starting with Roddy Jones and Eric Wood<\/a> at the network\u2019s 2019 launch, then Tim Hasselbeck and Taylor Tannebaum, then Tom Luginbill alongside Boyle<\/a> in 2024, before Addazio took over in 2025. This season, Durham moves on again to a new analyst, Max Browne. Boyle, meanwhile, is moving too, off the ACC primetime assignment and onto Fridays with Monaco and Rodgers.<\/p>\n \u201cA sideline reporter for the package will be announced in the coming weeks, as Dana Boyle moves into an expanded ESPN college football role,\u201d ESPN noted earlier this month<\/a>.<\/p>\n The rest of ESPN\u2019s college football booths shifted in the same round of moves. Matt Schumacker, who called games with Dustin Fox in 2025, will lead the SEC Network\u2019s top booth this fall alongside Aaron Murray<\/a>, who spent last season in a separate SEC Network pairing with Lowell Galindo and Lauren Sisler. Browne, taking over the ACC Network primetime chair from Durham\u2019s old partner, called games in 2025 alongside Chris Cotter and Kendra Douglas on the network\u2019s secondary ACC booth. The reshuffling isn\u2019t limited to those chairs, either: veteran voice Mark Jones retired from ESPN<\/a> this spring, breaking up his longtime pairing with Roddy Jones, and Dave Flemming is also departing the network<\/a>, leaving ESPN with real depth to rebuild across its college football lineup heading into the fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ESPN appears to have finally answered a question it left dangling earlier this summer. 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