Source: NBC sacks Jac Collinsworth in favor of Dan Hicks as Notre Dame football voice
SOUTH BEND — Jac Collinsworth’s two-season run as lead play-by-play announcer for Notre Dame football on NBC television is over.
According to a source briefed on the matter, veteran play-by-play voice Dan Hicks will pair with returning analyst Jason Garrett this fall. The Athletic was the first to report the change.
Noah Eagle and Todd Blackledge, NBC’s lead college football announcing team, would still call Notre Dame home games that run in the featured evening slot. That was the case last season for both the Ohio State and USC games at Notre Dame Stadium.
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Hicks, 61, previously held the role from 2013-16 before giving way to Mike Tirico, who handled Notre Dame duties through 2021. Hicks, who also pinch-hit on the 2002 game against Boston College as Tom Hammond recovered from heart surgery, is a University of Arizona graduate who joined NBC Sports in 1992.
Hicks and 1983 Notre Dame graduate Hannah Storm, a longtime sportscaster currently with ESPN, have been married since 1994.
Collinsworth, 29, previously served as studio host and sideline reporter for NBC’s telecasts of Notre Dame home games in 2020 and 2021. The son of longtime NBC football analyst Cris Collinsworth worked with Garrett, the former Dallas Cowboys coach, for the past two seasons.
The elder Collinsworth worked Notre Dame games on NBC as lead analyst for three seasons (1992-94).
Mike Berardino covers Notre Dame football for NDInsider.com and is on social media @MikeBerardino.
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