Alyssa Lang received a significant promotion this season as part of ESPN\u2019s college football coverage, but was not on air Friday or Saturday of Week 3.<\/p>\n
Fortunately, Lang is doing okay.<\/p>\n
As she explained in a post on her X account, Lang was in a \u201cscary accident\u201d on Thursday evening that left her with bruising and a concussion. She took the week off to rest and recover.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was involved in a scary accident late Thursday night when someone slammed into my car while driving on the highway,\u201d Lang wrote. \u201cThankfully, I was very lucky \u2013 walked away with just some bruises and a concussion. Resting this weekend so that I can be back soon.<\/p>\n
\u201cWill use this as a reminder for folks to please drive safely and pay attention, because things can change in an instant.\u201d<\/p>\n
I was involved in a scary accident late Thursday night when someone slammed into my car while driving on the highway. Thankfully, I was very lucky \u2013 walked away with just some bruises and a concussion. Resting this weekend so that I can be back soon \u2764\ufe0f<\/p>\n
Will use this as a\u2026 https:\/\/t.co\/ZcTGds3WtB<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Alyssa Lang (@AlyssaLang) September 19, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n After Matt Barrie became a weekly play-by-play fixture on ESPN and anchor of SEC Nation\u00a0on-site each Saturday, Lang was promoted to replace him on studio coverage<\/a>. Lang hosts ESPN and ESPN2 games on Friday nights and Saturdays<\/a>, when her coverage airs alongside the main ABC studio show.<\/p>\n Zubin Mehenti and Kevin Connors stepped into the ABC and ESPN college football studio show chairs for this week in Lang\u2019s absence.\u00a0<\/p>\n Lang came up in local news in Columbia, SC, and on the SEC Network, where she has worked since 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alyssa Lang received a significant promotion this season as part of ESPN\u2019s college football coverage, but was not…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":854124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[360704,158012,349,99],"class_list":["post-854123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-alyssa-lang","tag-cfb-on-espn","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=854123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/854124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}