No more national title game for Musburger … he's now the voice of the SEC

On Wednesday, ESPN announced what had long been anticipated within sports television circles: Brent Musburger will no longer call the national title game.

Instead, Musburger and Jesse Palmer will serve as the lead broadcast team for the upcoming SEC Network when it launches in August. The new team will debut on Aug. 28 with Texas A&M's season opener at South Carolina. The current contract of Musburger, who turns 75 in May, was up as of early this year. His new deal is for multiple years and includes calling a college bowl game on ESPN, as well as Big 12 basketball.

"I'm delighted to be staying with ESPN, thrilled to be able to call the best football conference in the nation every week and am really looking forward to working with Jesse, who I covered while he was at Florida," Musburger said in a statement.

Palmer reached a new agreement with ESPN that also includes staying as an analyst on ESPN's Thursday night college football package. Jon Solomon of The Birmingham News reported that the SEC Network so far has cable and satellite deals to be in approximately 20 million homes

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