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ESPN and ABC College Football Analyst Todd Blackledge spoke with Sam and Brad to talk about the big game between the Ohio State Buckeyes and the Penn State Nittany Lions on Saturday.

Blackledge played quarterback at Penn State and is currently the head boys' basketball coach of the North Canton Hoover Vikings. 

Among those mourning the death of ESPN mainstay John Saunders is Terry Bowden.

The University of Akron's head football coach worked alongside Saunders in ABC-TV's college football studio every Saturday for five years...between Bowden's coaching jobs.

"Not only was he a good, good person, but maybe the best TV guy I've been around," Bowden tells WAKR's Jasen Sokol. "He'll be in front of a live television, you put him in front of there...no matter what happens, a satellite feed screws up, he could handle any situation."

Bowden says not only did Saunders teach him how to be a broadcaster, he was also "fun loving", a good family man with a great sense of humor.

Saunders died at the age of 61.