ESPN announces new College Football Final lineup; Mark May out Connor Tapp - 4 hours ago ESPN's makeover of College Football Final will be a complete one. The network now plans to replace longtime panelist Mark May, a mainstay on ESPN's college football coverage since 2001, in addition to the departing Rece Davis and Lou Holtz. The show will now be hosted by Adnan Virk, Joey Galloway, and Danny Kanell. Holtz announced prior to the 2014 season that it would be his last year on the program, and ESPN announced in February that Davis would replace Chris Fowler as the host of College GameDay. That left the network with the option of blowing the show up and starting over with completely new hosts or building a similar show back up around May. Considering how cartoonish the show became toward the end of the previous lineup's run, fueled by the petty rivalry between Hotlz and May, it's not hard to understand why ESPN decided it wasn't a dynamic worth preserving. Virk, with ESPN since 2010, takes over hosting duties for Davis after spending the past several years hosting Baseball Tonight, SportsCenter, Outside the Lines, and occasionally filling in for Keith Olbermann on Olbermann. Galloway, a former Ohio State wide receiver who had a 16-year NFL career, has been providing college football commentary on ESPN since 2012. The most controversial addition to the team is Danny Kanell, who took an abrupt left turn into virulent anti-SEC posturing after years of being an ESPN personality with whom few took objection. Of course, if Kanell had already been told he was being groomed to replace May, then maybe he knew exactly what he was doing.
I never had a problem with May, but that show was a joke with that stupid judge thing they did where granny holtz and may were the lawyers, geez did anyone really watch that?
Man that judge thing was really bad, but this doesn't look anything close to an upgrade in personnel. Let's hope the content gets an overhaul.
I'd rather see Marcus Spears. He is funnier and always has a good take on whatever he is talking about.
id rather look at erin andrews and listen to todd blackledge. the judge thing was so bad we would always turn it off asap.
So you take out the 'A' team and replace it with a bunch of 'B' team wannabes?! My goodness. This show was a necessity on my DVR, but no longer. Holtz was difficult to digest, but May was usually candid and honest. The show did become more amateur comedy hour in recent years with the courtroom segments, but it was easy to fast forward through. Now? None of those names, no, none of those *people* make me feel if I listen I'm potentially going to be educated in some way. It's more a move to the typical ESPN show. Female in somewhere lobbing up softball non-issues to two guys who are loud and will then argue. No thanks!
