Florida head coach Jim McElwain will once again be featured in coverage of the College Football Playoff National Championship from the ESPN family of networks, ESPN announced Wednesday.
Highlighting the programming plans is Florida’s head coach Jim McElwain joining SEC Network as a guest analyst on game day for the network’s pregame show SEC Nation and the MegaCast alternate view Finebaum Film Room. Monday’s show marks the sixth Finebaum Film Room in the network’s three-year history and the second time it’s been utilized as an additional view for the national championship game. Host Paul Finebaum and guest McElwain will be joined by two-time Super Bowl winning analyst Booger McFarland and BCS National Champion quarterback from Alabama Greg McElroy. Similar to previous Finebaum Film Rooms the show is highlighted with the inclusion of live reaction to the game from callers across the country and the analysts.
This is gonna be pretty cool! Thanks, Paul. Looking forward to it. https://t.co/HAC9pKF7HM
— Jim McElwain (@CoachMcElwain) January 4, 2017
McElwain was featured on ESPN2’s “Film Room” broadcast of the 2016 National Championship as well, and drew positive reviews for his explanations of Nick Saban’s system.
ESPN may be moving that broadcast from ESPN2 to the SEC Network this year, or may be producing two versions of a “film room” broadcast in parallel, airing one featuring McElwain and SEC Network analysts McElroy and McFarland on the SEC Network and another on a separate channel or via its WatchESPN streaming service. It did the latter last year, with McElwain being one of a handful of coaches featured on ESPN2 and Arkansas head coach Bret Bielema on an SEC Network broadcast.