CBS college football broadcast schedule

CBS had their college football broadcast schedule posted earlier today. They have since hidden the schedule, but if you view the source code you can see what they have listed. For the last five years their initial summer schedule has almost always been what they stuck with.

We have pretty much known for a while that Florida at LSU was going to be a CBS night game, so no surprise there. For Sep. 29 and Nov. 03 they show a 5:00 p.m. EDT kickoff. That would be a first if it happens, but we’ll have to wait and see.

CBS College Football Schedule (times shown are Eastern, not Central)
Sep. 15: Tennessee @ Florida, 3:30-7:00 p.m.
Sep. 22: Georgia @ Alabama, 3:30-7:00 p.m.
Sep. 29: FloridaState @ Alabama OR Auburn @ Florida, 5:00-8:00 p.m.
Oct. 06: Georgia @ Tennessee, 3:30-7:00 p.m.; Florida @ LSU, 8:00-11:00 p.m.
Oct. 13: Alabama @ Ole Miss OR Georgia @ Vandy, 3:30-7:00 p.m.
Oct. 20: Tennessee @ Alabama, 3:30-7:00 p.m.
Oct. 27: Georgia vs. Florida, 3:30-7:00 p.m.
Nov. 03: LSU @ Alabama, 5:00-8:00 p.m.
Nov. 10: Auburn @ Georgia OR Arkansas @ Tennessee, 3:30-7:00 p.m.
Nov. 17: LSU @ Ole Miss OR Kentucky @ Georgia OR Vanderbilt @ Tennessee, 3:30-7:00 p.m.
Nov. 23: Arkansas @ LSU, 2:30-6:00 p.m.
Nov. 24: Alabama @ Auburn OR Florida State @ Florida, 1:30-8:00 p.m.

It’s been mentioned here before that ESPN gets to pick first over CBS for three of the weeks every year. The Chattanooga Times Free Press had an article a month ago that talked about this. They also showed what three games ESPN had picked, and based on the CBS picks it looks to be accurate. I am assuming primetime on these as well.

Oct. 13: Auburn - Arkansas
Oct. 20: Auburn - LSU
Nov. 10: Florida - South Carolina

Bottom line is that both Florida and Auburn will be night games in Tiger Stadium. OH HELL YEAH!!!!!!
:geauxtige

 

Do we still have the deal that LFS has to show one of our games? That could leave the South Carolina game to be in the morning...

 

Broadcast selection order is CBS, ESPN, LFS, then ESPN2. We can refuse LFS games to a degree, but we are obligated by contract to take one game per year. All we know about the week of the South Carolina game is that it won’t be on CBS.

What I said about ESPN only applies to who gets first selection that week, so ESPN only had to announce those three games. ESPN’s schedule is far from complete and the South Carolina game could easily end up there. We won’t know for sure until the 12 to 6 day selection window.

It wasn’t listed here because CBS broadcasts the US open during the first two weeks of college football. Anyway Va Tech is scheduled for ESPN primetime at 8:15 p.m. - http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2792610

 

I would imagine that LSU/South Carolina will be an ESPN night game, possibly ESPN 2, but I doubt LFS. It should be a better match-up than that. The Kentucky game may end up going the LFS route.

 

That's one of the games I'm most looking forward to. :thumb:
Bama, Auburn (Time for them to pay the piper), VT (Statement game as far as whether or not our new personnel will take the team to the level we expect them to be), Florida (Time to shut 'em up for all college football fans and bring OT some peace in Miami, :hihi: South Carolina (Always love beating a SS coached team- and expect it to be a good game).

 

So pretty much you're excited? You could have saved a lot of typing by just saying