No. 6 Ole Miss took on No. 10 Miami in the first 2025 College Football Playoff semifinal — the Fiesta Bowl — Thursday night on ESPN, a game ultiamtely won by the Hurricanes 31-27.
The network rolled out all the stops for the broadcast: top play-by-play caller Chris Fowler — who brutally savaged Baltimore Ravens kicker Tyler Loop during the clash — was joined by premier color commentator Kirk Herbstreit, and ESPN recruited a slew of old Miami alumni like Michael Irvin and Ray Lewis to the pregame show.
Still, fans took to social media and expressed their displeasure with the frequency of ads run during the CFP broadcast. One fan noted that ESPN ran commercials after each change of possession, stunting momentum. “I hate that this football game keeps interrupting the commercials on ESPN,” a fan wrote…