Sean McDonough has called college football in some capacity since George H.W. Bush was in office. And after spending nearly four decades inside every major cathedral the country has to offer, he\u2019s come to the conclusion that Ole Miss is home to the worst broadcast booth in the sport.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe booth is tiny,\u201d McDonough said in a recent appearance on The Brandon Walker College Football Show, explaining that Vaught-Hemingway Stadium\u2019s press box used to have more room before the athletic department reclaimed seats from it. \u201cTo the point where our stats guy has to be behind us, because it\u2019s not wide enough for myself, the spotter, Greg McElroy, Zach, our spotter, and me. There can\u2019t be a fourth person, because it\u2019s not wide enough.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sean McDonough declares Ole Miss the stadium with the worst tv broadcast booth pic.twitter.com\/isv73E7TVk<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Brandon Walker College Football Show (@BFWshow) August 21, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n Cramped quarters aren\u2019t even the worst of it. McDonough said the booth\u2019s angle relative to the field turns Ole Miss\u2019s frequent noon ET kickoffs into their own kind of miserable.<\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019re a little to the left of the 50-yard line, but we have a lot of those noon Eastern starts there, which are 11 Central, and the sun is hitting you right in the face,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t like to wear sunglasses on TV, because you look like you\u2019re doing a Hollywood shot, but you almost have to there when the game starts, because you\u2019re just getting blasted in the face. It\u2019s just a really uncomfortable place to do a game.\u201d<\/p>\n McDonough is entering his fourth straight season alongside McElroy on ESPN\u2019s No. 2 college football broadcast team, It might be a while before McDonough\u2019s critically acclaimed crew makes the trip down to Oxford, given this season\u2019s schedule, but when they do, they each might want to pack the sunglasses.<\/p>\n \t
with Katie George stepping in as their new sideline reporter<\/a> in place of Molly McGrath, who moved to an NFL-focused role<\/a>. That booth was voted No. 1 in Awful Announcing\u2019s 2025 college football announcer rankings,<\/a> drawing the highest raw number of A grades of any crew in the poll, and McDonough was individually named<\/a> the National Sportscaster of the Year.<\/p>\n