Madison Fitzpatrick will serve as the ACC Network\u2019s primetime college football sideline reporter this season, rounding out the booth alongside play-by-play voice Wes Durham and analyst Max Browne, Awful Announcing has learned.<\/p>\n
Front Office Sports first reported<\/a> the ACC Network lead broadcast pairing<\/a> back in June, confirming Durham<\/a> and Browne<\/a> atop the primetime booth, Durham\u2019s fourth different primetime analyst in as many seasons after cycling through Roddy Jones and Eric Wood at the network\u2019s 2019 launch, then Tim Hasselbeck<\/a> and Taylor Tannebaum<\/a>, then Tom Luginbill and Dana Boyle<\/a> in 2024, then former Boston College coach Steve Addazio<\/a> last season. Browne, meanwhile, moves up from ESPN\u2019s secondary ACC Network booth, where he called games alongside Chris Cotter<\/a> and Kendra Douglas<\/a>\u00a0in 2025.<\/p>\n Fitzpatrick wasn\u2019t part of that announcement at the time because her contract hadn\u2019t been finalized yet.<\/p>\n The sideline opening exists in part because of a broader shuffle elsewhere in ESPN\u2019s college football booths. Dana Boyle<\/a>, who had worked ACC Network primetime games alongside Durham in 2024, moved into a new role<\/a> calling ESPN\u2019s Friday night package alongside play-by-play voice Mike Monaco<\/a> and analyst Jordan Rodgers<\/a>, part of the same round of moves that also sent Rodgers off SEC Network\u2019s longtime top booth and into an expanded role with ESPN and ABC.<\/p>\n Fitzpatrick joined ESPN in 2023 as a volleyball analyst and sideline reporter after a standout career at Florida State, where she served as a captain of the Seminoles\u2019 beach volleyball team. She previously worked as a sports anchor at Fox16 in Little Rock, AR, before joining the network.<\/p>\n ESPN is expected to make Fitzpatrick\u2019s announcement official as part of its full 2026 college football lineup release on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Madison Fitzpatrick will serve as the ACC Network\u2019s primetime college football sideline reporter this season, rounding out the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":979144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[43],"tags":[145570,1318,392928,361589,1317,1315,1316,62,67,132,68,171492],"class_list":["post-979143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-acc-network","tag-football","tag-madison-fitzpatrick","tag-max-browne","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-wes-durham"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117034864463168743","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=979143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/979144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}