Greg McElroy serves as one of ESPN’s primary college football analysts for Saturday games on ABC/ESPN. McElroy regularly appears across ESPN studio programming, including College Football Live, SportsCenter and more. He also co-hosts McElroy & Cubelic in the Morning on WJOX in Birmingham with fellow ESPN analyst Cole Cubelic, and hosts ESPN and Omaha Productions’ Always College Football podcast.
McElroy joined ESPN in 2014 as an SEC Network analyst and teamed with Marcus Spears for the launch of Thinking Out Loud, which the duo co-hosted for two seasons. McElroy also served as an analyst for ABC and ESPN’s coverage of the XFL in 2020, joining play-by-play commentator Steve Levy, field analyst Tom Luginbill and sideline reporter Dianna Russini. He returned as an ESPN XFL analyst for the 2023 season.
McElroy was an Alabama quarterback from 2007 to 2011, leading the Crimson Tide to the 2010 BCS National Championship. He previously guided Alabama to the 2009 SEC Championship and was named the game’s MVP. He was named the 2010 ESPN/CoSIDA Academic All-American of the Year and a first-team Academic All-American. He finished his college career with a 24-3 record.
The New York Jets drafted McElroy in 2011, and he retired from the Cincinnati Bengals in 2013.
He graduated from the University of Alabama in three years with a degree in business marketing and went on to earn a Master of Science degree in sports management in 2010, finishing with a 4.0 GPA. Often cited as a cerebral quarterback for his intelligence, McElroy was a Rhodes Scholarship finalist in 2010. He is from Arlington, Texas.