Rece Davis, who joined ESPN in 1995, serves as primary studio host for ESPN and ESPN2’s coverage of college football and college basketball. He is the host of ESPN’s Saturday college football pregame, halftime and postgame studio coverage and College Football Final with analysts Lou Holtz and Mark May, and the trio calls select ESPN and ESPN2 weekday games. Davis also calls the ESPN College Football Primetime game on Thursday nights with Craig James and Jesse Palmer. He is the host of ESPN’s College GameDay basketball road show and calls select college basketball games.
A regular contributor to SportsCenter and ESPN Radio, Davis has also served on ESPN and ABC’s Triple Crown horse racing coverage and ESPN’s NFL Draft coverage.
Previously, Davis hosted ESPN2’s weekend RPM 2Night and Sunday morning RPM 2Day programs (1997-1999), and ESPN2’s NBA 2Night, the network’s daily NBA highlights/news program (1996-97).
Before joining ESPN, Davis worked at WJRT-TV in Flint, Mich., as a sports anchor/reporter (1993-95). From 1988 to 1993, he was a sports anchor and sports director at WRBL-TV in Columbus, Ga., and, while he was still as student at the University of Alabama in 1987, a general assignment reporter for WCFT-TV in Tuscaloosa. He also worked as a freelance television play-by-play announcer, studio host and radio announcer in select media outlets in Alabama (1983-93).
In 2008, Davis won the Best Sports Host award given by Cable Fax.
Davis, a native of Muscle Shoals, Ala., graduated cum laude from the University of Alabama in 1988 with dual Bachelor of Arts degrees in broadcast news and public affairs. Davis was named the University of Alabama School of Communication Broadcast Department’s outstanding alumnus for 2001.
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