BYU football disrespected? Fans weigh in on Alamo Bowl broadcast – Deseret News

BYU dominated Colorado in Saturday’s Alamo Bowl, but you might not have known it if you listened to the ABC broadcast team of Dave Pasch and Dusty Dvoracek without checking the score.

At least that was the narrative that emerged on social media Saturday night as the game unfolded.

BYU fans complained that Pasch and Dvoracek saved all their praise for Travis Hunter, Shedeur Sanders and the rest of the Buffaloes and barely had anything to say about the Cougars.

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“.@DavePasch who is Colorado playing tonight?” posted Joe Wheat, a BYU fan and host of “The Hype Train” podcast, on X.

“Announcers have to run out of Colorado content soon right?” wrote the people behind the X account CougsinthePros.

There was so much commentary on social media about Pasch and Dvoracek’s performance that the blog Awful Announcing dedicated a post to the controversy.

While the Awful Announcing crew didn’t entirely side with BYU fans, they agreed that the announcers had a lot to say about Hunter and Sanders.

“Pasch and Dvoracek are two of ESPN’s top announcers, but even the best can find themselves in the crosshairs of fan angst when expectations don’t quite match up with the broadcast reality. And the broadcast reality on Saturday was to talk about Colorado — a lot,” the article said.

The Awful Announcing story was among the most popular posts on the CFB subreddit for much of Sunday, as college football fans — many with no ties to BYU or Colorado — weighed in on the debate.

Fans of other schools generally agreed that the commentators should have had more to say about BYU and been more responsive to what was actually happening on the field.

“These guys convinced themselves that Colorado was a national darling and that only a loser would be watching their game for the other team,” a Florida State fan wrote on Reddit.

A Wisconsin fan argued, “It was really bad last night, and when BYU was way up they kept showing Deion on the sidelines for what seemed like minutes and just constantly talking about Travis Hunter and Shedeur.”

The college football fans on Reddit said the problem isn’t unique to the BYU-Colorado game and has become a fixture of bowl season.

“This whole bowl season the blatant favoritism and forced narratives by the announcing teams has been absolutely horrible. It’s made watching the games a real pain,” an Ohio State fan wrote on Reddit, noting that one factor involved could be that broadcasters like ESPN are spread thin prepping for so many bowls at once.