Sean McDonough says Ole Miss has the worst broadcast booth in college football

Sean McDonough has called college football in some capacity since George H.W. Bush was in office. And after spending nearly four decades inside every major cathedral the country has to offer, he’s come to the conclusion that Ole Miss is home to the worst broadcast booth in the sport.

“The booth is tiny,” McDonough said in a recent appearance on The Brandon Walker College Football Show, explaining that Vaught-Hemingway Stadium’s press box used to have more room before the athletic department reclaimed seats from it. “To the point where our stats guy has to be behind us, because it’s not wide enough for myself, the spotter, Greg McElroy, Zach, our spotter, and me. There can’t be a fourth person, because it’s not wide enough.”

Sean McDonough declares Ole Miss the stadium with the worst tv broadcast booth pic.twitter.com/isv73E7TVk

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Cramped quarters aren’t even the worst of it. McDonough said the booth’s angle relative to the field turns Ole Miss’s frequent noon ET kickoffs into their own kind of miserable.

“You’re a little to the left of the 50-yard line, but we have a lot of those noon Eastern starts there, which are 11 Central, and the sun is hitting you right in the face,” he said. “I don’t like to wear sunglasses on TV, because you look like you’re doing a Hollywood shot, but you almost have to there when the game starts, because you’re just getting blasted in the face. It’s just a really uncomfortable place to do a game.”

McDonough is entering his fourth straight season alongside McElroy on ESPN’s No. 2 college football broadcast team,
with Katie George stepping in as their new sideline reporter in place of Molly McGrath, who moved to an NFL-focused role. That booth was voted No. 1 in Awful Announcing’s 2025 college football announcer rankings, drawing the highest raw number of A grades of any crew in the poll, and McDonough was individually named the National Sportscaster of the Year.

It might be a while before McDonough’s critically acclaimed crew makes the trip down to Oxford, given this season’s schedule, but when they do, they each might want to pack the sunglasses.

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