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The network will announce today that its NFL studio analysts will be game analysts on the Orange or Sugar Bowl. Fox needs on-air pinch-hitters for BCS bowls since it doesn't carry regular-season college football.

Bradshaw is a voter in a poll used as an element in the BCS standings. And both analysts, Fox Sports President says, sometimes line up multiple TV sets to watch Saturday college football together: "They follow college football as closely as they do the NFL."

, the other Fox NFL studio analyst, shouldn't feel left out. Says Goren, "We're talking to Jimmy about working the pregame shows for all our bowls."

NBC unveiled its NFL studio Tuesday in New York, on a set that hosted the Philco Television Playhouse (1948-55), Jeopardy (1964-75) and TheRosie O'Donnell Show (1996-2002). The NFL show will have something the others didn't: two 103-inch Panasonic TV sets, billed as the world's biggest that eventually will be sold to consumers.

, who made sets for HBO's Sex and the City and put a video fireplace — its flames kept replaying — in NBC's 2002 Winter Olympic studio, made this set and says "the whole idea is to visually reinforce the statistics coming into the studio."

CBS also has a new NFL set that studio show director says will have 50 on-camera displays, such as video monitors — up from about 20. He says the set has a greater "sense of bigness" and "conveys action and a connectivity to our subject."

NBC reporter suggested Tuesday that it'll be great to be indoors while the Fox and ESPN pregame shows will be at stadiums. "It will be interesting to see how long it is before (Fox's) Jimmy Johnson says, 'What the hell are we doing out in this parking lot? ... I wonder if he'll like people throwing hot dog wrappers at him."

— except for his season on ABC's Monday Night Football in 1970 — covered college football since 1952. Now retired, he says he won't go to a game this year: "If you go to a game, everybody is going to ask if you miss it."

Well, will he? He says he has "no second thoughts." And he's staying "busier than a bird dog in October." And he notes that after calling lots of ABC baseball, he hasn't been to a baseball game since the last one he called on TV in 1986. "I don't think football will be like that," he says. "But it might."

Jackson, 77, also isn't too worked up about games on ABC now being shown as if they're on ESPN: "The whole world is fascinated with the latest catchphrase —branding. ... ABC Sports is, effectively, dead."

CBS' U.S. Open tennis drew a 3.0 overnight rating for Sunday — the highest overnight for the Open's first Sunday in 16 years — because of Andre Agassi's Open finale, which drew a 4.3 rating at its peak. During Saturday's rainout, CBS replayed Agassi matches and its rating fell just 11% from last year. Monday was a different story: CBS' rating was down 17% from last year. ... ESPN's Florida State-Miami (Fla.) game Monday drew a 6.1% overnight, putting it on track to be ESPN's top-rated college football regular-season game in 12 years.

The NFL Network is getting into the habit of showing up at other network's events — such as the Super Bowl or NFL draft — because, well, it can. The network airs a three-hour pregame show Thursday before NBC's Miami Dolphins-Pittsburgh Steelers opener. Spokesman says there could "potentially" be such shows at "playoff sites" this season.

will call NFL Network games with . And if Gumbel is canned for recently criticizing the league on HBO, Collinsworth said Tuesday, "Then everything they told us going into this job is a flat-out lie. ... We have the right to call it like we see it."

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