Ohio State fans tuning in to FOX at noon on November 14 will hear a different booth crew for the Northwestern game. Gus Johnson and Joel Klatt are out, and Connor Onion, Robert Griffin III and Alexa Landestoy are in for the Buckeyes’ meeting with Northwestern.
The change was tied to a nationwide FAA ground stop that threw college football travel into disarray, and it sent Johnson and Klatt to Tucson instead. They were assigned to Utah vs. Arizona, a game that was moved Friday from 5:30 p.m. MT to 8:30 p.m. MT after Utah could not travel as planned.
Dan Hope of Eleven Warriors broke the news Saturday morning on X, and the setup makes the switch more notable than a routine broadcast shuffle. Johnson and Klatt are familiar voices in FOX’s biggest college football windows, so seeing them pulled from an Ohio State home game stood out even though the kickoff at Ohio Stadium did not change.
The Big 12 Conference said it was evaluating changes to Saturday’s football schedule because of the national FAA ground stop, and the University of Utah later confirmed that the delay came from the same travel disruption. That left FOX with a split assignment: Onion on play-by-play, Griffin III as analyst and Landestoy on the sideline in Ohio Stadium, while Johnson, Klatt and Jenny Taft stayed on Utah vs. Arizona.
That is the part that matters for Saturday’s viewers. Ohio State still kicks at the same time, but the network’s marquee booth is elsewhere, carrying a game with major stakes for Utah’s playoff chase. Utah entered the weekend unbeaten at 9-0, Arizona at 7-2, and FOX is still set to keep its top crew with the matchup that was thrown off course by the ground stop.
