Big Noon Kickoff is an American college football studio show broadcast by Fox, and simulcast on sister network Fox Sports 1 (FS1). Premiering on August 31, 2019, it serves as the pre-game show for Fox College Football, and in particular, Big Noon Saturday—the network's weekly 12:00 p.m ET/9:00 a.m PT kickoff window.
It is hosted by Rob Stone, and features former national champion and 2004 Heisman Trophy winning USC Trojans quarterback Matt Leinart, former national champion and 2009 Heisman Trophy winning Alabama running back Mark Ingram II, former Notre Dame Fighting Irish quarterback Brady Quinn, former Bowling Green, Utah, Florida, Ohio State coach Urban Meyer, and Barstool Sports' Dave Portnoy as panelists, with Bruce Feldman acting as Fox's CFB insider, as well as Tom Verducci, who usually does baseball for Fox, and Tom Rinaldi, both working on feature reports. Radio host Clay Travis serves as a contributor, and 1997 Heisman Trophy winner and former Michigan Wolverines cornerback Charles Woodson will also join the show on select weeks, most notably if Michigan is featured.
History
[edit]September 14, 2024 broadcast from Madison, Wisconsin
In the 2013 season, Fox aired a college football pre-game show on its newly-launched Fox Sports 1 channel, Fox College Saturday. The program was unable to compete with ESPN's popular and established College GameDay, with Fox only being able to sustain an average viewership of 70,000. The show was cancelled after a single season, and its role was supplanted by the Friday-night edition of Fox Sports Live.[1][2]
Fox introduced the Big Noon Saturday window for its college football coverage in the 2019 season; the network had aired occasional noon kickoffs during the season before (including, after having acquired the Big Ten's primary football rights in 2017, the Michigan–Ohio State rivalry),[3] and they were among Fox's top-viewed games in the 2018 season. Fox has positioned the timeslot as featuring one of its flagship games of the day.[4] Fox made that decision in order to boost their ratings by avoiding competition with CBS that has their featured SEC (until 2023 with the game moving to ABC and CBS replacing it with Big Ten football games in its place from 2024 onward) game of the week in the 3:30 p.m. timeslot, and ABC with their featured game in primetime.[5]Big Noon Kickoff was henceforth introduced as a pre-game show for the new window.[6][4]
Sports Illustrated described the show as being "built around" Urban Meyer (who retired as head coach of the Ohio State Buckeyes at the end of the 2018 season, and had previously been an ESPN analyst). Meyer stated that he had prepared for the role by studying clips of Fox's NFL pre-game show Fox NFL Sunday, and Alex Rodriguez (who joined ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball in 2018),[7] as an example of another player-turned-television analyst. Fox executive producer Brad Zager explained that his presence was meant to help provide "intelligent dialogue" to the show.[4]
For the 2020 season, the program was expanded to two hours.[8] On November 4, 2020, for undisclosed reasons citing Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Los Angeles County Department of Health Services guidance, Fox announced that the November 7, 2020 edition of Big Noon Kickoff would not feature the program's usual panel, and that the program would be shortened to one hour. The guest panel was led by Fox NFL Kickoff host Charissa Thompson, joined by Fox NFL Sunday analysts Terry Bradshaw and Howie Long, and Emmanuel Acho from Fox Sports 1's Speak for Yourself.[9][10] On November 12, Meyer revealed that he had recently recovered from a COVID-19 infection.[11]
Meyer left after the 2020 season to take the Jacksonville Jaguars head coaching job, and was replaced by former Oklahoma Sooners head coach Bob Stoops for the 2021 season. Meyer returned for the 2022 season replacing Stoops. Bush left after the 2022 season,[12] with 2009 Heisman Trophy winner running back Mark Ingram II joining the cast for the 2023 season.[13]
In the 2025 season, Barstool Sports owner Dave Portnoy joined Big Noon Kickoff as a regular panelist, and other Barstool Sports personalities began to appear as contributors.[14][15] Media analysts characterized the hire—which came as part of a larger deal between Fox Sports and Barstool[14]—as being a response to the hiring of Pat McAfee as a panelist by College GameDay, as both personalities had significant followings among young adults and via digital media.[16][17][18]
Reception
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The Big Lead felt that Big Noon Kickoff showed promise, but that the show's "formal" and "corporate" atmosphere (in comparison to the "casual fun" of College GameDay) led to most of the panelists seeming "stiff" on-air, and exacerbated their relative lack of broadcasting experience. Quinn was considered to be a stand-out among the panelists in its premiere broadcast, considering him the most "comfortable" on-air, and noting that both he and Meyer were well-versed at leveraging their past experience to provide insights.[19]
Viewership
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During the first episode, the show garnered 838,000 viewers, which amounted to a 0.8 rating.[20] A special two-hour edition of Big Noon Kickoff leading into the Michigan-Ohio State game on November 30, 2019 received a series-high 1.6 overnight rating, beating College GameDay (which drew a 1.54 rating) in its time slot for the first time in the program's history.[21]
Personalities
[edit]Quinn (left) and Leinart (right) at Michigan Stadium during September 7, 2024 game
Current
[edit]
Rob Stone: (Host, 2019–present)
Mike Hill: (Fill-in Host, 2019–present)
Mark Ingram II: (Analyst, 2023–present)
Matt Leinart: (Analyst, 2019–present)
Brady Quinn: (Analyst, 2019–present)
Urban Meyer: (Analyst, 2019–2020; 2022–present)
Dave Portnoy: (Analyst, 2025–present)
Charles Woodson: (Part Time Analyst, 2019–present)
Clay Travis: (Contributor, 2019–present)
Tom Verducci: (Contributor, 2019–present)
Bruce Feldman: (Insider, 2019–present)
Tom Rinaldi: (Reporter, 2021–present)
Chris Fallica: (Researcher/Contributor, 2023–present)
Former
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Reggie Bush: (Analyst, 2019–2022)
Bob Stoops: (Analyst, 2021)
On-site broadcasts
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Initially, unlike its main competitor College GameDay, Big Noon Kickoff originated from Fox Sports' studio in Los Angeles, and only travelled to game sites for marquee games being televised by a Fox network (including major rivalry games and the Big Ten Championship Game).[22] Fox scheduled four road shows in 2020, but only 3 happened, as their scheduled visit to USC was canceled due to Fox holding their crew out that weekend due to COVID-19 protocols, which Urban Meyer later revealed that he dealt with a COVID infection. The first 6 weeks of the 2021 season featured the crew going on the road, a Big Noon Kickoff first. Beginning in the 2022 season, Big Noon Kickoff moved permanently to on-location broadcasts throughout the season.[23]
With Deion Sanders' debut as head coach of the Colorado Buffaloes, Fox broadcast Big Noon Kickoff from Colorado's first three games in the 2023 season; its Week 3 edition was broadcast from Boulder, Colorado for the Rocky Mountain Showdown—which ESPN also chose as its site for College GameDay that week—rather than Penn State at Illinois as originally scheduled, marking the first time that Big Noon Kickoff was broadcast from the same site for two consecutive weeks, and the first time that it was broadcast from the site of a game not televised by Fox.[24][25]
2019 season
[edit]
Date
Visitor
Host
Location
City
Notes
September 20
No. 10 Utah
23
USC
30
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Los Angeles, CA
First Big Noon Kickoff road show, game televised by FS1 at 9 PM ET
October 12
No. 6 Oklahoma
34
No. 11 Texas
27
Cotton Bowl
Dallas, TX
Red River Rivalry, expanded an hour
October 26
No. 13 Wisconsin
7
No. 3 Ohio State
38
Ohio Stadium
Columbus, OH
November 23
No. 8 Penn State
17
No. 2 Ohio State
28
Rivalry, expanded an hour
November 30
No. 1 Ohio State
56
No. 13 Michigan
27
Michigan Stadium
Ann Arbor, MI
The Game, expanded an hour (Also live from Ann Arbor on November 29, before Texas Tech-Texas)
December 7
No. 1 Ohio State
34
No. 8 Wisconsin
21
Lucas Oil Stadium
Indianapolis, IN
Big Ten Championship Game
2020 season
[edit]
Date
Visitor
Host
Location
City
Notes
October 24
Nebraska
17
No. 5 Ohio State
52
Ohio Stadium
Columbus, OH
November 21
No. 9 Indiana
35
No. 3 Ohio State
42
December 19
No. 15 Northwestern
10
No. 4 Ohio State
22
Lucas Oil Stadium
Indianapolis, IN
Big Ten Championship Game
2021 season
[edit]
Date
Visitor
Host
Location
City
Notes
September 2
No. 4 Ohio State
45
Minnesota
31
Huntington Bank Stadium
Minneapolis, MN
8 PM ET kickoff
September 4
No. 19 Penn State
16
No. 12 Wisconsin
10
Camp Randall Stadium
Madison, WI
September 11
No. 12 Oregon
35
No. 3 Ohio State
28
Ohio Stadium
Columbus, OH
September 18
Nebraska
16
No. 3 Oklahoma
23
Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium
Norman, OK
Rivalry
September 25
No. 18 Wisconsin
13
No. 12 Notre Dame
41
Soldier Field
Chicago, IL
Shamrock Series
October 2
No. 14 Michigan
38
Wisconsin
17
Camp Randall Stadium
Madison, WI
October 9
No. 4 Penn State
20
No. 3 Iowa
23
Kinnick Stadium
Iowa City, IA
4 PM ET kickoff
October 30
No. 6 Michigan
33
No. 8 Michigan State
37
Spartan Stadium
East Lansing, MI
Rivalry
November 13
No. 8 Oklahoma
14
No. 13 Baylor
27
McLane Stadium
Waco, TX
November 20
Iowa State
21
No. 13 Oklahoma
28
Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium
Norman, OK
November 27
No. 2 Ohio State
27
No. 5 Michigan
42
Michigan Stadium
Ann Arbor, MI
The Game (Also live from Ann Arbor on November 26, before Kansas State–Texas)
December 4
No. 2 Michigan
42
No. 13 Iowa
3
Lucas Oil Stadium
Indianapolis, IN
Big Ten Championship Game
2022 season
[edit]
Date
Visitor
Host
Location
City
Notes
September 1
Penn State
35
Purdue
31
Ross–Ade Stadium
West Lafayette, IN
September 10
No. 1 Alabama
20
Texas
19
DKR–Texas Memorial Stadium
Austin, TX
September 17
No. 6 Oklahoma
49
Nebraska
14
Memorial Stadium
Lincoln, NE
Rivalry
September 24
Maryland
27
No. 4 Michigan
34
Michigan Stadium
Ann Arbor, MI
October 1
No. 4 Michigan
27
Iowa
14
Kinnick Stadium
Iowa City, IA
October 8
No. 4 Michigan
31
Indiana
10
Memorial Stadium
Bloomington, IN
October 15
No. 10 Penn State
17
No. 5 Michigan
41
Michigan Stadium
Ann Arbor, MI
Rivalry
October 22
Iowa
10
No. 2 Ohio State
54
Ohio Stadium
Columbus, OH
October 29
No. 2 Ohio State
44
No. 13 Penn State
31
Beaver Stadium
University Park, PA
Rivalry
November 5
Texas Tech
24
No. 7 TCU
34
Amon G. Carter Stadium
Fort Worth, TX
Rivalry
November 12
Indiana
14
No. 2 Ohio State
56
Ohio Stadium
Columbus, OH
November 19
No. 4 TCU
29
Baylor
28
McLane Stadium
Waco, TX
Rivalry
November 26
No. 3 Michigan
45
No. 2 Ohio State
23
Ohio Stadium
Columbus, OH
The Game, expanded an hour
December 2
No. 11 Utah
47
No. 4 USC
24
Allegiant Stadium
Paradise, NV
Pac-12 Championship Game
December 3
Purdue
22
No. 2 Michigan
43
Lucas Oil Stadium
Indianapolis, IN
Big Ten Championship Game
2023 season
[edit]
Date
Visitor
Host
Location
City
Notes
August 31
Nebraska
10
Minnesota
13
Huntington Bank Stadium
Minneapolis, MN
Rivalry
September 2
Colorado
45
No. 17 TCU
42
Amon G. Carter Stadium
Fort Worth, TX
September 9
Nebraska
14
No. 22 Colorado
36
Folsom Field
Boulder, CO
Rivalry
September 16
Colorado State
35
No. 18 Colorado
432OT
Folsom Field
Boulder, CO
Rivalry; game televised by ESPN at 10 PM ET. Originally scheduled to broadcast from Champaign, Illinois.[24][25]
September 23
No. 16 Oklahoma
20
Cincinnati
6
Nippert Stadium
Cincinnati, OH
September 30
No. 8 USC
48
Colorado
41
Folsom Field
Boulder, CO
October 7
Maryland
17
No. 4 Ohio State
37
Ohio Stadium
Columbus, OH
October 14
No. 10 USC
20
No. 21 Notre Dame
48
Notre Dame Stadium
South Bend, IN
Rivalry; game televised by NBC at 7:30 PM ET[26]
October 21
No. 7 Penn State
12
No. 3 Ohio State
20
Ohio Stadium
Columbus, OH
Rivalry
October 28
No. 6 Oklahoma
33
Kansas
38
David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium
Lawrence, KS
November 4
No. 23 Kansas State
30
No. 7 Texas
33OT
DKR–Texas Memorial Stadium
Austin, TX
November 11
No. 3 Michigan
24
No. 10 Penn State
15
Beaver Stadium
University Park, PA
Rivalry
November 18
No. 3 Michigan
31
Maryland
24
SECU Stadium
College Park, MD
November 25
No. 2 Ohio State
24
No. 3 Michigan
30
Michigan Stadium
Ann Arbor, MI
The Game, expanded an hour
December 2
No. 2 Michigan
26
No. 16 Iowa
0
Lucas Oil Stadium
Indianapolis, IN
Big Ten Championship Game
2024 season
[edit]
Date
Visitor
Host
Location
City
Notes
August 31
No. 8 Penn State
34
West Virginia
12
Milan Puskar Stadium
Morgantown, WV
Rivalry
September 7
No. 3 Texas
31
No. 10 Michigan
12
Michigan Stadium
Ann Arbor, MI
Expanded an hour
September 14
No. 4 Alabama
42
Wisconsin
10
Camp Randall Stadium
Madison, WI
September 21
Marshall
14
No. 3 Ohio State
49
Ohio Stadium
Columbus, OH
September 28
Colorado
48
UCF
21
FBC Mortgage Stadium
Orange County, FL[a]
3:30 PM ET kickoff
October 5
UCLA
11
No. 7 Penn State
27
Beaver Stadium
University Park, PA
October 12
Arizona
19
No. 14 BYU
41
LaVell Edwards Stadium
Provo, UT
4 PM ET kickoff
October 19
Nebraska
7
No. 16 Indiana
56
Memorial Stadium
Bloomington, IN
October 26
Nebraska
17
No. 4 Ohio State
21
Ohio Stadium
Columbus, OH
November 2
No. 4 Ohio State
20
No. 3 Penn State
13
Beaver Stadium
University Park, PA
Rivalry
November 9
No. 20 Colorado
41
Texas Tech
27
Jones AT&T Stadium
Lubbock, TX
4 PM ET kickoff
November 16
Utah
24
No. 17 Colorado
49
Folsom Field
Boulder, CO
Rivalry
November 23
No. 5 Indiana
15
No. 2 Ohio State
38
Ohio Stadium
Columbus, OH
November 30
Michigan
13
No. 2 Ohio State
10
The Game, expanded an hour
December 6
No. 20 UNLV
7
No. 10 Boise State
21
Albertsons Stadium
Boise, ID
Mountain West Championship Game
2025 season
[edit]
Date
Visitor
Host
Location
City
Notes
August 30
No. 1 Texas
7
No. 3 Ohio State
14
Ohio Stadium
Columbus, OH
Expanded an hour
September 6
Iowa
13
No. 16 Iowa State
16
Jack Trice Stadium
Ames, IA
Rivalry
September 13
No. 4 Oregon
34
Northwestern
14
Martin Stadium
Evanston, IL
September 20
No. 17 Texas Tech
34
No. 16 Utah
10
Rice–Eccles Stadium
Salt Lake City, UT
September 27
No. 21 USC
32
No. 23 Illinois
34
Gies Memorial Stadium
Champaign, IL
October 4
Wisconsin
10
No. 20 Michigan
24
Michigan Stadium
Ann Arbor, MI
October 11
No. 1 Ohio State
34
No. 17 Illinois
16
Gies Memorial Stadium
Champaign, IL
Rivalry
October 18
No. 23 Utah
21
No. 15 BYU
24
LaVell Edwards Stadium
Provo, UT
Rivalry, 8 PM ET kickoff
October 25
UCLA
6
No. 2 Indiana
56
Memorial Stadium
Bloomington, IN
November 1
Penn State
14
No. 1 Ohio State
38
Ohio Stadium
Columbus, OH
Rivalry
November 8
No. 9 Oregon
18
No. 20 Iowa
16
Kinnick Stadium
Iowa City, IA
Game televised by CBS at 3:30 PM ET
November 15
No. 18 Michigan
24
Northwestern
22
Wrigley Field
Chicago, IL
George Jewett Trophy
November 22
No. 11 BYU
26
Cincinnati
14
Nippert Stadium
Cincinnati, OH
8 PM ET kickoff
November 29
No. 1 Ohio State
27
No. 15 Michigan
9
Michigan Stadium
Ann Arbor, MI
The Game, expanded an hour
December 6
No. 2 Indiana
13
No.1 Ohio State
10
Lucas Oil Stadium
Indianapolis, IN
Big Ten Championship Game
Winners listed in BOLD Neutral site host listed in Italics Rankings from AP Poll and CFP Rankings (once released) released prior to game
^The UCF campus has an Orlando mailing address but is entirely located in unincorporated Orange County, Florida
On-site appearances by team
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Appearance(s)
Team
Hosted
Record
Win pct.
Last appearance
Last hosted
27
Ohio State
16
21–6
.778
December 6, 2025
November 1, 2025
20
Michigan
8
16–4
.800
November 29, 2025
November 29, 2025
12
Penn State
4
4–8
.333
November 1, 2025
November 2, 2024
7
Colorado
4
6–1
.857
November 16, 2024
November 16, 2024
7
Indiana
3
3–4
.429
December 6, 2025
October 25, 2025
7
Iowa
3
1–6
.143
November 8, 2025
November 8, 2025
7
Nebraska
1
0–7
.000
October 26, 2024
September 17, 2022
7
Oklahoma
2
5–2
.714
October 28, 2023
November 20, 2021
7
Wisconsin
3
0–7
.000
October 4, 2025
September 14, 2024
5
Texas
2
2–3
.400
August 30, 2025
November 4, 2023
5
USC
1
2–3
.400
September 27, 2025
September 20, 2019
5
Utah
1
1–4
.200
October 18, 2025
September 20, 2025
3
BYU
2
3–0
1.000
November 22, 2025
October 18, 2025
3
Maryland
1
0–3
.000
November 18, 2023
November 18, 2023
3
Northwestern
1
0–3
.000
November 15, 2025
September 13, 2025
3
Oregon
0
3–0
1.000
November 8, 2025
N/A
3
TCU
2
2–1
.667
September 2, 2023
September 2, 2023
3
Texas Tech
1
1–2
.333
September 20, 2025
November 9, 2024
2
Alabama
0
2–0
1.000
September 14, 2024
N/A
2
Baylor
2
1–1
.500
November 19, 2022
November 19, 2022
2
Cincinnati
2
0–2
.000
November 22, 2025
November 22, 2025
2
Illinois
2
1–1
.500
October 11, 2025
October 11, 2025
2
Iowa State
1
1–1
.500
September 6, 2025
September 6, 2025
2
Minnesota
2
1–1
.500
August 31, 2023
August 31, 2023
2
Notre Dame
1
2–0
1.000
October 14, 2023
October 14, 2023
2
Purdue
1
0–2
.000
December 3, 2022
September 1, 2022
2
UCLA
0
0–2
.000
October 25, 2025
N/A
1
Arizona
0
0–1
.000
October 12, 2024
N/A
1
Boise State
1
1–0
1.000
December 6, 2024
December 6, 2024
1
UCF
1
0–1
.000
September 28, 2024
September 28, 2024
1
Colorado State
0
0–1
.000
September 16, 2023
N/A
1
Kansas
1
1–0
1.000
October 28, 2023
October 28, 2023
1
Kansas State
0
0–1
.000
November 4, 2023
N/A
1
Marshall
0
0–1
.000
September 21, 2024
N/A
1
Michigan State
1
1–0
1.000
October 30, 2021
October 30, 2021
1
UNLV
0
0–1
.000
December 6, 2024
N/A
1
West Virginia
1
0–1
.000
August 31, 2024
August 31, 2024
Big Noon Saturday
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Big Noon Saturday
Genre
College football telecasts
Presented by
Gus JohnsonJoel KlattJenny Taft
Opening theme
Fox College Football theme (main theme)
Country of origin
United States
Original language
English
No. of seasons
7
Production
Production locations
Various NCAA stadiums
Camera setup
Multi-camera
Running time
210 minutes or until game ends
Production company
Fox Sports
Original release
Network
Fox
Release
August 31, 2019 (2019-08-31) –present
Related
Fox College Football
Big Noon Saturday is an American weekly presentation of 12 p.m. ET broadcasts of NCAA Division I FBS college football games on Fox. The branding has been used since 2019. It is often, but not always, the game played at the site of Big Noon Kickoff.[4]
Due to the early kickoff times, the package has faced criticism for having undue impacts on teams not based in the Eastern Time Zone (ET), including from University of Oklahoma Athletics Director Joe Castiglione (who felt that a Noon ET kickoff for a 2021 game against Nebraska, marking the 50th anniversary of their 1971 "Game of the Century", would diminish its profile), and Stanford head coach David Shaw (who, in particular, criticized Fox Sports for scheduling noon kickoffs involving visiting Pac-12 teams).[27][28] In August 2021, University of Oklahoma president Joe Harroz cited criticism of Big Noon Saturday when discussing the Sooners' eventual 2024 move to the SEC, arguing that the Big 12 conference would be "last in line" in negotiating new media deals, and that "our fans talk about that. It also matters to student-athletes. When those who go before you, in terms of negotiations for 2025 and beyond, if those premiere slots are already taken up, it impacts things in a material way. It translates into disadvantages in recruiting the top talent, disadvantages for our student-athletes and a detriment to the fan experience." The SEC began a new rights deal with ESPN/ABC in the same season the Sooners, as well as Texas, moved to the SEC.[29]
In the 2021 season, Big Noon Saturday overtook the SEC on CBS as having the highest average viewership for College Football telecasts. That season’s Michigan/Ohio State game (which saw Michigan end an eight-game losing streak in the rivalry) was the highest-rated regular-season game of the 2021 season, and most-watched regular-season game since the Alabama–LSU game in 2019.[30][6]
As of 2024[update], the primary broadcast team for games includes play-by-play announcer Gus Johnson and analyst Joel Klatt, with Jenny Taft as sideline reporter, with Tom Rinaldi joining the crew for big games, most notably The Game.[31]
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