Michigan State football announcers cover Noah Eagle, Mike Tirico, Chris Simms, and Todd Blackledge. Kathryn Tappen is the sideline reporter.
Noah is the son of famous sportscaster Ian Eagle and is mostly known for his play-by-play broadcast of college football games on NBC Sports’ Big Ten Saturday Night.
Eagle grew up with a keen interest in basketball and proved his role in announcing games including football and basketball. The Syracuse University graduate joined the Los Angeles Clippers and began his professional announcing career.
In 2021, Noah came to join CBS Sports to call SEC on CBS and moved to Fox Sports in 2022. He was given the play-by-play role by NBC Sports in February 2023. He is all set to call Big Ten Saturday Night games on the network.
Similarly, Mike Tirico has been on the sportscasting career for almost 33 years now. He came to join NBC right after his contract expired with ESPN in 2016. Tirico was associated with ESPN for 25 years.
He is currently in his 8th year with NBC Sports and calls NFL Sunday Night Football games including selected college football matches.
2023 Announcers For Michigan State Football Team
MSU football announcers are Brendan Burke, Paul Burmeister, Andrew Siciliano, and Michael Robinson. Caroline Pineda will handle the sideline.
The callers have been with the NBC Network for a long time and announce both the National Football as well as college football games. Let’s have a brief look at some of these names.
Brendan Burke
Burke’s sportscasting journey began when he started serving as a sports director for radio campus stations at Ithaca College while he was an undergrad student in the same college.
For most of his broadcasting career, he has been dedicated to calling baseball and hockey games. Wheeling Nailers hired him at the age of 22 making him the youngest sportscaster in ECHL.
He was a play-by-play announcer for St. Louis Blues in the 2012-2013 NHL Season on KMOX Radio. He called college football games since 2012 with his first in Fox Sports Net with Ben Leber as an analyst. He was also the caller of college hockey matches on Big Ten Network.
Brendan was also listed among the Sportscasters Talent Agency of America’s “Top 30 Sportscasters Under 30” in 2014. The broadcaster has also been awarded with James H. Ellery Memorial Award the same year.
He also called playoffs for the NHL on NBC and became the Premier Lacrosse League’s voice in the 2019 season for the network. For this college football season, Burke has been assigned the play-by-play role to call Big Ten football games on NBC.
Paul Burmeister
The American sportscaster has been in the role of NFL Studio host as well as play-by-play announcer for NBC Sports for 12 years now.
Burmeister came to join the network in 2011 becoming the lead voice in the role for the network’s coverage of Mountain West Conference football. He has also worked as a reporter for Football Night in America during his debut years.
He began his full-time job in NBC Sports moving from NBC Sports Network in 2014 and also called the 2015 Pro Football Hall of Fame games.
Besides, he has also hosted NFL Total Access, College Football Scoreboard, and College Football Now including Path to The Draft associated with the NFL Network. The media personality has contributed to a number of preseason games as well.
Andrew Siciliano
Siciliano started his sports broadcasting journey early at the university level. At Syracuse University where he was pursuing graduation in Public Communication, he was also Assistant Sports Director at WARE, a student-run radio.
His professional career started right after his graduation, WMAQ-670 AM as both anchor and reporter. Siciliano went on to join Fox Sports Radio in 2000.
Since the establishment of the NFL Sunday Ticket Red Zone in 2005, Andrew has been the sole host of the inception till this date in 2023. He has also been on the hosting role for NFL Total Access airing on the NFL Network.
Andrew has been fulfilling his play-by-play roles for a number of preseason and regular seasons including Hall of Fame football matches. Although he has a successful career in television, his love for the radio is unmatchable.
Radio Broadcasters
Michigan State football radio broadcast team consists of George Blaha (Play-By-Play), Jason Strayhorn (Analyst), and Jehuu Caulcrick (Sideline).
The broadcast will be hosted by Will Tieman. He is the president of WGHN Radio and Spartan Sports Network on the same radio agency. The WGHN-FM is the MSU Football and Basketball affiliate.
George Blaha
Blaha has been a Michigan State broadcast icon for calling the team’s basketball games as well as the Spartans football games. His involvement with the Network has crossed decades now.
The experienced play-by-play caller was inducted into the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame in 2008. He started his journey long back before 1976 and called his first NBA game in the same year. He calls most of the games of the Detroit Pistons.
He has also been the lead voice for calling Spartans football matches for a long time. The sportscaster received the Ty Tyson Award for Excellence in Sports Broadcasting in 2002.
Jason Strayhorn
Strayhorn was a former Michigan State Spartans football team captain and All-Big Ten receiver center. He currently serves as an analyst for the team’s football game.
He has spent almost 2o years broadcasting for the Spartans. Jason served in the sideline reporting role for the first seven seasons and was given analyst duty after that.
The former college footballer has also been on the Michigan State Board of Education after being elected in the general election held in November 2020 and served in the role from 1 January 2021 to 29 July 2022.
Michigan Vs. Michigan State Radio Broadcast
For MSU the radio broadcasters are projected to be George Blaha and Jason Strayhorn. Jehuu Caulcrick can be predicted to fill the sideline role as usual.
Michigan Wolverines will be facing Michigan State on 21 October 2023 at Spartan Stadium. The official time and announcers are yet to be determined.
The college football rivalry is a long run as they first met in 1998 and played against each other 114 times till now. They last met on 29 October 2022 when the Wolverines got a 29-7 victory over the Spartans.
There are a number of affiliate radio stations that you can tune in to listen to MSU games. The names are:
- WQBX – 104.9
- WKJZ – 94.9
- WLBY – 1290
- WLEW – 1340
- WBCK – 95.3
- WCBY – 1240/100.7
- WCSY – 103.7
- WJR – 760
- WWCK – 1570
- WGHN – 92.1
- WBFX – 101.3
- WBCH – 100.1
Michigan State Football Cast
MSU football will feature Jason Garrett, Chris Simms, Joshua Perry, Michael Robinson, Kyle Rudolph, and Anthony Herron whenever their game airs on NBC.
These analysts are set to appear on NBC and Peacock’s coverage of college football games including Big Ten games. So, they will be the prime cast during the broadcast of MSU games.
Chris Simms
Simms has been given the analyst role on NBC’s coverage of the Big Ten football games. Chris first started his broadcasting journey associating with Fox Sports on 22 July 2013.
He was appointed the color commentator for the network on 31 August of the same year. After that, he went to join Bleacher Report in 2014 and from the same year until 2016 filled in the color commentator role for NFL on CBS.
The former footballer came to join NBC Sports to become a studio analyst and made an appearance on NBC Sports Radio. He began cohosting Peacock’s Sunday Night Football Final in 2021.
Jason Garrett
Garrett appended with NBC Sports on 12 April 2022 to analyze NBC’s coverage of the United States Football League. He was later asked to join Jac Collinsworth to cover Notre Dame Football.
Later, he contributed to the network’s coverage of Sunday Night Football accompanying Tony Dungy. The former footballer and head coach. His last association in a coaching role was with the New York Giants as the offensive coordinator. Jason also serves as the analyst for NFL Pregame Show ‘Football Night in America’.
Michigan State Football TV Schedule For 2023
Michigan State Spartans have already played four games in the past which aired on NBC, Peacock, BTN, and FS1 respectively. Last one was against the Terrapins on 23 September.
The full TV schedule for MSU games for the 2023 season:
- 30 September vs. Iowa Hawkeyes at 7:30 PM ET on NBC/Peacock
- 14 October vs. Rutgers Scarlet Knights at 12:00 PM ET TV TBD
- 21 October vs. Michigan Wolverines at 7:30 PM ET on NBC/Peacock
- 28 October vs. Minnesota Golden Gophers Time & TV TBD
- 4 November vs. Nebraska Cornhuskers Time & TV TBD
- 11 November vs. Ohio State Buckeyes at 7:30 PM ET on NBC/Peacock
- 18 November vs. Indiana Hoosiers Time & TV TBD
- 24 November vs. Penn State Nittany Lions at 7:30 PM ET on NBC/Peacock
- 2 December Big Ten Championship at 8:00 PM on Fox