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Oklahoma-Kansas Gets Fox Big Noon Kickoff

The 7-0 Sooners have been on site for ESPN's "College GameDay" and now will be in the stadium again when Fox's college football pregame show broadcasts from Kansas.
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Oklahoma-Kansas Gets Fox Big Noon Kickoff
Oklahoma-Kansas Gets Fox Big Noon Kickoff

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Another national pregame show is making camp at an Oklahoma game.

Fox’s “Big Noon Kickoff” will originate from Lawrence, KS, this Saturday, as No. 6-ranked OU visits unranked Kansas.

It’s the second time this year the Fox morning pregame show will originate from an OU road game venue.

On Sept. 23, the show was broadcast from Cincinnati’s Nippert Stadium ahead of the Sooners’ victory over the Bearcats.

Fox will carry the broadcast of OU-KU, with kickoff at 11 a.m. at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium. It's the first time the Fox show has attended a KU game (last year KU hosted ESPN's "College GameDay"). 

The on-location studio show features host Rob Stone and analysts Matt Leinart, Mark Ingram, Brady Quinn and Urban Meyer as well as reporter Tom Rinaldi. The game broadcast will feature Gus Johnson, Joel Klatt and Jenny Taft. Meyer joined the show at the outset in 2019 and 2020, but was replaced by former Sooners head coach Bob Stoops in 2021. Stoops stepped aside after the 2021 season as Meyer returned to the lineup.

According to the show’s Wikipedia page, this will be the seventh time “Big Noon Kickoff” will originate from an Oklahoma game. That’s fourth among all schools behind Ohio State (17), Michigan (13) and Penn State (8).

OU is 5-1 in games attended by the “Big Noon Kickoff” crew, including the 2019 OU-Texas game (a 34-27 win), the 2021 OU-Nebraska game in Norman (a 23-16 win) the 2021 OU-Baylor game in Waco (a 27-14 loss), the 2021 OU-Iowa State game in Norman (a 28-21 win) and the 2022 OU-Nebraska game in Lincoln (a 49-14 win).

On Oct. 7, ESPN’s “College GameDay” originated from the Cotton Bowl in Dallas as OU took down No. 3-ranked Texas 34-30.

OU ranks fourth in both "GameDay" appearances (41) and wins (26).

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John E. Hoover
JOHN E. HOOVER

John is an award-winning journalist whose work spans five decades in Oklahoma, with multiple state, regional and national awards as a sportswriter at various newspapers. During his newspaper career, John covered the Dallas Cowboys, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Oklahoma Sooners, the Oklahoma State Cowboys, the Arkansas Razorbacks and much more. In 2016, John changed careers, migrating into radio and launching a YouTube channel, and has built a successful independent media company, DanCam Media. From there, John has written under the banners of Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, Fan Nation and a handful of local and national magazines while hosting daily sports talk radio shows in Oklahoma City, Tulsa and statewide. John has also spoken on Capitol Hill in Oklahoma City in a successful effort to put more certified athletic trainers in Oklahoma public high schools. Among the dozens of awards he has won, John most cherishes his national "Beat Writer of the Year" from the Associated Press Sports Editors, Oklahoma's "Best Sports Column" from the Society of Professional Journalists, and Two "Excellence in Sports Medicine Reporting" Awards from the National Athletic Trainers Association. John holds a bachelor's degree in Mass Communications from East Central University in Ada, OK. Born and raised in North Pole, Alaska, John played football and wrote for the school paper at Ada High School in Ada, OK. He enjoys books, movies and travel, and lives in Broken Arrow, OK, with his wife and two kids.

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