COLLEGE Football fans found themselves accidentally tuning into an alternate ESPN broadcast for the College Football Playoff.
Some college football fans confused Pat McAfee‘s alternate broadcast with the main broadcast of the Rose Bowl.
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Ohio State and Oregon matched up in the Rose Bowl on New Year’s Day, and millions of fans tuned in to watch the high-powered matchup.
However, some of those fans got led astray and made their way to ESPN’s alternate broadcast headlined by McAfee and AJ Hawk.
Fans were baffled with how casual the broadcast sounded, how much conversation there was, and how crass the language was.
“I know TV has gone down the drain (especially after watching CNN NYE broadcast last night), but holy cow I’ve heard ‘s***’ & ‘a**’ more in this Rose Bowl Broadcast than I hear in a week from my teenager!” a post on ESPN’s reddit page read.
“Is it that hard to show some decorum for the game’s most prestigious Bowl?”
“These guys wouldn’t shut the F*** UP,” another fan wrote.
“Please tell me this isn’t commentating of the future.”
“Like listening to 12 year old boys with the stupidest accent in America,” a third fan said.
“Don’t they speak English in Pittsburgh?”
Those viewers obviously weren’t watching the main ESPN broadcast of the Rose Bowl.
That broadcast featured Chris Fowler and Kirk Herbstreit.
Instead, the fans had what ESPN called the Field Pass alternate on ESPN 2.
Even Michigan writer John U. Bacon was fooled by this, sharing he watched McAfee “by accident.”
The confusion likely came from how ESPN began the alternate broadcast.
Things started out with the main feed showing Fowler and Herbstreit.
College Football Playoff schedule
First-round games:
No. 10 Indiana at No. 7 Notre Dame – Friday, Dec. 20, 8 pm ET, ABC/ESPN
No. 11 SMU at No. 6 Penn State – Saturday, Dec. 21, 12 pm ET, TNT/Max
No. 12 Clemson at No. 5 Texas – Saturday, Dec. 21, 4 pm ET, TNT/Max
No. 9 Tennessee at No. 8 Ohio State – Saturday, Dec. 21, 8 pm ET, ABC/ESPN
Second-round games:
No. 3 Boise State vs. Penn State/SMU – Tuesday, Dec. 31, 7:30 pm ET, ESPN
No. 4 Arizona State vs Texas/Clemson – Wednesday, Jan. 1, 1 pm ET, ESPN
No. 1 Oregon vs Ohio State/Tennessee – Wednesday, Jan. 1, 5 pm ET, ESPN
No. 2 Georgia vs Notre Dame/Indiana – *POSTPONED* Thursday, Jan. 2, 4 pm ET, ESPN
Semifinals:
No. 6 Penn State vs Georgia/Notre Dame – Thursday, Jan. 9, 7:30 pm ET, ESPN
No. 5 Texas vs No. 8 Ohio State – Friday, Jan. 10, 7:30 pm ET, ESPN
National Championship Game:
TBD vs TBD, Monday, Jan. 20, 7:30 pm ET, ESPN
However, it abruptly switched to McAfee’s broadcast mid-play at the start of the game.
It seems viewers were left confused with this and never looked for another broadcast.
Fans didn’t really miss out on much though, as it was a completely lopsided game.
Ohio State upset the No. 1 seeded Oregon 41-21, never relinquishing their lead.
The game was basically over by halftime.
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