Heart of Dallas Bowl - Television Broadcasters

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ESPNU - For the fourth-straight year, ESPNU will be televising the Heart of Dallas Bowl. Joe McCoy will producing the game with Mark Jones the director. Clay Matvick has been the play-by-play announcer for the last three Heart of Dallas Bowls and will be joined in the booth by Matt Stinchcomb for the second-straight year. Dawn Davenport will be covering her first Cotton Bowl Stadium post-season game as the sideline announcer.

Clay Matvick has been calling events for ABC and ESPN networks since 2006 as he will be the lead commentator for his third-straight Heart of Dallas Bowl. In addition to covering college football, Matvick has called the Men’s NIT, NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship, NCAA Baseball Championship, NCAA Softball Super Regionals and the Little League World Series. He also works the NCAA Men’s Hockey Championship, and has been the rink-side reporter for the last six Frozen Fours. Prior to ESPN, Matvick was a sports anchor and play-by-play announcer for FSN-North in Minneapolis. Before that he was a studio anchor for CNN Sports in Atlanta. From 1990-1999, he worked in Minnesota, South Dakota and Nebraska as a sports anchor and reporter at various stations. Matvick has won multiple regional Emmys for his play-by-play of the Minnesota High School Hockey Tournament in his home state. Matvick graduated from St. Cloud State University in 1996 with a degree in mass communications.

Matt Stinchcomb will team with Clay Matvick for the second-straight Heart of Dallas Bowl as the booth commentators. Stinchcomb joined ESPN in June 2009 as analyst on the SEC Network’s pregame show and ESPNU College Football Saturday programming. Stinchcomb began his broadcasting career in 2007 with Comcast Sports Southeast as an analyst and host. He has appeared as a commentator and college football expert on SportsNite and was a color announcer for the Georgia Bulldogs. Prior to broadcasting, Stinchcomb was drafted in the first round of the 1999 NFL Draft by the Oakland Raiders. During his five seasons with Oakland, he was a starting guard, tackle, tight end and center, and he played in Super Bowl XXXVII. He also played for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (2004-2006) and received the Ed Block Courage Award while playing in the NFL. As an offensive tackle at the University of Georgia, he was a consensus all-America First Team in 1998 and a two-time All-American in 1997 and 1998. He was also named to the SEC First Team All-Decade Team for the 1990s and was a 1998 Academic All-American of the Year. In 2009 he was named as an SEC “Living Legend” and was also inducted into UGA’s Circle of Honor. Stinchcomb is the president and founder of the Stinchcomb Family Foundation, a private, nonprofit organization that supports public children’s charities. Together with his brother Jon, a right tackle for the New Orleans Saints, and former Georgia quarterback David Greene, he hosts “Countdown to Kickoff”, an annual children’s charity event at Georgia. Stinchcomb graduated in 1998 from the University of Georgia and completed the Harvard Business School’s Executive Education Business Management and Entrepreneurial Program in 2006.

Dawn Davenport joined ESPN at the start of the 2013 college football season as a reporter on the ESPNU Saturday Prime Time game with Clay Matvick and Matt Stinchcomb. She currently is also a morning show anchor for WKRN-ABC in Nashville, Tenn. Prior to joining the three-hour morning news show, Davenport was an award-winning weekend sports anchor and reporter for the station. Davenport started her career at WWAY-ABC Wilmington, N.C., and then at WRIC-ABC in Richmond, Va., where she was a part of a sports department that twice won the AP Award for Best Year-Round Sports Coverage. She also worked events for the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) and CSS Sports, Atlanta. Born in Plano, Texas, Davenport was raised in Atlanta. An honors graduate from Auburn University in December 2002, she earned a degree in mass communications/radio, television, film. Davenport was a three-year letter winner and a two-time SEC Academic All-American member on the volleyball team.

HEART OF DALLAS BOWL ESPN TELEVISION COVERAGE TEAMS

2014 - Clay Matvick, Matt Stinchcomb, Dawn Davenport
2013 - Clay Matvick, Matt Stinchcomb, Kaylee Hartung
2012 - Clay Matvick, Danny Kanell, Lisa Williams (Lisa Salters)
2011 - Dave Pasch, Chris Spielman, Bob Griese, Quint Kessenich