A College Football RedZone Could Be Coming Soon Thanks To ESPN’s New Deal With The NFL

Seven hours of commercial free football…on a Saturday? Sign me up. Now, I’m not one to wish summer away, but I’ll admit that I’m counting down the days until football season, when my weekend routine becomes wake up on Saturday, turn on College GameDay, and rot on the couch for the next 12 hours watching schools I know nothing about, then wake up on Sunday and turn on NFL Sunday Ticket and do it all over again. I can’t wait. […] The post A College Football RedZone Could Be Coming Soon Thanks To ESPN’s New Deal With The NFL first appeared on Whiskey Riff.

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A College Football RedZone Could Be Coming Soon Thanks To ESPN’s New Deal With The NFL

Seven hours of commercial free football…on a Saturday? Sign me up.

Now, I’m not one to wish summer away, but I’ll admit that I’m counting down the days until football season, when my weekend routine becomes wake up on Saturday, turn on College GameDay, and rot on the couch for the next 12 hours watching schools I know nothing about, then wake up on Sunday and turn on NFL Sunday Ticket and do it all over again.

I can’t wait.

One of the best parts of watching the NFL on Sundays is turning on Scott Hanson and watching NFL RedZone. The channel, first launched in 2009, offers coverage of key moments from all the games currently going on, so you never have to miss a big play or a scoring drive no matter what game you’re watching.

But fans recently became concerned over the future of RedZone after the NFL announced that ESPN had acquired the NFL Network in a deal that gave the league a 10% ownership stake in the “Worldwide Leader in Sports.” (I put that in quotation marks for a reason, read into that what you will).

Hanson quickly put some minds at ease when he announced that he would, in fact, continue to host RedZone on the new ESPN-owned NFL Network, which is great news.

It’s official.
(& for those wondering: yes, I will still be hosting RedZone.)
Fired up for a great season! Optimistic about this new partnership!
(& I get to call @AdamSchefter “colleague” for the 2nd time in my career… nice bonus!) https://t.co/Mh5BP0VRXR
— Scott Hanson (@ScottHanson) August 6, 2025

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell appeared on SportsCenter yesterday to address the future of the show, assuring fans that they shouldn’t expect to see any changes in the product. And he also hinted that ESPN may now be able to replicate it in other sports:

“ESPN purchased the RedZone name, and they will be able to utilize that for other sports, college football and other things, and I think that could be an exciting thing for our fans also to see a RedZone, maybe in college football or other sports. That’s something that they now own and have the ability to do that.”

Roger Goodell says ESPN has purchased the rights to the RedZone name — allowing them to use the format for other sports, including a potential RedZone-style broadcast for College Football. Read More