Overview

• Fox integrated the Barstool College Football Show into Big Noon Kickoff from Ames, with Dave Portnoy, Dan “Big Cat” Katz and Brandon Walker joining Urban Meyer and Mark Ingram.
• Portnoy’s on-air tone in Iowa was notably more restrained than in Columbus a week earlier, when he sang Michigan’s fight song, wore a trolling T-shirt and called Ohio State fans “morons.”
• Portnoy announced he will miss Week 3’s show in Evanston without giving a reason, and Awful Announcing reported his absence is likely tied to his One Bite Pizza Festival in New York.
• Barstool’s Katz said he will fill in next week, leaving unanswered whether Big Noon will feature Portnoy inside a Big Ten stadium once he returns after the Ohio State access dispute.
• Fox’s broader partnership includes the weekday FS1 show Wake Up Barstool, with more Barstool presence expected on Big Noon, as the Big Ten says it routinely communicates with TV partners and Fox declines to explain employing Portnoy.