These Girls Bring Beauty, Personality And Reporting Talent On College Football Saturdays
This article has been updated for the 2026 college football season.
By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com College Football Editor
They are the beauties among the beasts, the great-looking gals who roam the sidelines, interview the coaches and report on injuries.
For years this area was the domain of men but the big breakthrough for women – good looking ones – started with the head-turning Erin Andrews. The blonde bombshell also happened to be a heck of a reporter (I met her at a press conference and was quite impressed with her as a reporter) and from there is seemed there were pretty girls everywhere on the sidelines.
Then ESPN hired a former Miss Florida, Laura Rutledge, and made her a regular on the SEC Network. Today she’s off the sidelines and mostly in the studio hosting ESPN NFL shows and is no longer on the SEC Network’s SEC Nation. A lot of the current past and current female reporters are real-life beauty queens. One is Alley LaForce, who was the CBS college sideline reporter for many years and is now at the NBA on TNT; she was Miss Teen USA in 2005.
Here is PubClub.com list of college football’s hottest sideline reporters for the 2026 season.
1.) Molly McGrath, ESPN
The Calforinia native looks like she probably came from the beaches of L.A., or San Diego, but in fact is from San Francisco. She attended Boston College and worked as a production assistant at ESPN before eventually bcoming a sideline reporter in 2016. She also occassionall hosts College Football Live. She also has a heck an eye for fashion. The girl knows how to dress!
2.) Dana Boyle, ESPN. ACC Network
Blonde or brunette? Either way, she’s hot! This former two-time lacrosse player at the University of Virginia works the sidelines for ESPN’s Friday night college football games and can also be seen on the ACC Network. A native of New Hampshire, she once worked both as a broadcaster and an assistant director of stewardship and donor relations in the Engineering School, driving six hours roundtrip for $100 paydays.
3.) Katie George, ESPN, ACC Network
A former Miss Kentucky (2015), she played on the University of Louisville volleyball team. In the pageant, she advanced to the semifinals and made it into the top 11. Her grandfather on her mother’s side played football at the University of Kentucky for Bear Bryant.
4.) Laura Rutledge, ESPN
The dean of college football’s hottest sideline reporters, Laura is all over ESPN. She’s been a sideline reporter (she is currently on the ABC Network’s games), on the SEC Network and is a studio host for one of the network’s NFL shows. One of her most attractive features is her cute ski slope nose, along with that long blonde hair. A Florida graduate, she often dresses with such style you would think she’s stepping straight from the sidelines into a nightclub. But she’s a mother and met her husband at a University of Alabama tailgate party. Hmmm, wonder if she was wearing cowboy boots?
5.) Jennny Taft, FOX
A college lacross player at Boston University she comes from an athletic family. Her mother competed as a speed skater and her father was capatain of 1976 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team team, Originally from Minnesota, she speaks fluent French.
6.) Alyssa Lang, SEC Network
The North Carolina native and South Carolina Gamecock is a sideline reporter, co-host of the network’s “Out Of Pocket” show and makes regular appearences on The Paul Finebaum Show and other SEC Network programs. Before joining that network, at First Coast News in Jacksonville, Florida, home of the World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party.
7.) Brooke Fletcher, Big 10 Network
The daughter of MLB player Scott Fletcher (15 seasons for several America League teams), Brooke spent much of her young life in Georgia. She was Miss Georgia in 2015 and competed against Katie George in the Miss USA contest. The Auburn graduate also works for Apple TV+ and Bally Sports.
8.) Studio Host: Kelsey Riggs ESPN/ACC Network
The Charleston Southern grad, where she was on the soccer team, hosts ACC Huddle, Nothing But Net and other studio shows for the ACC Network. She can also be found anchoring pregame, halftime and postgame studio coverage from ACC games, so technically she’s not a sideline reporter. She is also a host of College Football Live.
9.) Stormy Buonantony, ESPN
Stormy works games with Bob Wischusen and Louis Riddick. She is a San Diego State grad and lives in Las Vegas, which makes sense since she spent two years as the rink-side reporter and host for the Vegas Golden Knights on AT&T SportsNet. She also works NHL and UFL games and is also a studio host for VSIN, The Sports Betting Network in Las Vegas, Nev., and has served as the in-stadium host for the College Football Playoff National Championship since January 2023.
10.) Taylor McGregor, ESPN
Taylor is an Arkansas alumn, Colorado native and Chicago resident. In addition to working ESPN and ABC games with Dave Pasch and Dusty Dvoracek, she is the lead reporter for the Chicago Cubs on the Marquee Sports Network. Taylor did an excellent job turning from sideline sweetie into a news reporter during the nearly two-hour power outage delay of the Florida State-SMU game this season, providing constant updates of the situation.
She’s single guys! But AS IF you (or any of us for that matter, ha) have a chance.
11.) Jenny Dell, CBS
A Connecticut native, Jenny attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst. You may recoginze her because she was CBS’ #2 NFL sideline reporter in 2014. Boston folks know her from covering the Red Sox
for New England Sports Network (NESN). She is married guys. Her husband is former Red Sox player Will Middlebrooks who is now a baseball analyst and broadcaster for NESN and CBS Sports.
Kevin Wilkerson is the founder of PubClub.com, an award-winning journalist and nightlife expert who has covered destinations, events and nightlife for more than two decades. While working as a newspaper reporter, he received an Associated Press award for investigative journalism.
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