ESPN’s complete list of announcers for the 2012 bowl season says Mark Jones, Brock Huard, and Jessica Mendoza will be doing the TV broadcast for the Liberty Bowl and Beth Mowins, Joey Galloway, and Lewis Johnson will cover the game on the radio.
To my knowledge, this will be the first time a woman does the play-by-play for an Iowa State football game, on radio or TV. Mowins frequently is in that role for the early slot of games on TV, but since Iowa State’s nearly never on ABC/ESPN/ESPN2 at 11 AM, the paths never cross. (It’s usually Fox Sports, which means running the risk of color commentary from Eric Crouch.)
The Hawkeyes, on the other hand, are familiar with Mowins. She did the p-b-p for the 2011 Pitt game, for example. She also did the p-b-p for the 2012 women’s basketball games in Des Moines this year.