Just announced a few hours ago... @LSUBonnette: It's Saturday NIGHT in Tiger Stadium! CBS officially announces that @lsufball will host Alabama at 7 p.m. in Death Valley on Nov. 3.
It will stay at night CBS will be able to charge big bucks for advertisements in what will be a very highly rated game.
Correct; some may remember that CBS' deal with the SEC is for only one night game a season, and they had already used it before LSU/Bama became a 1v2 matchup. So they gave up right of first pick for LSU/Bama in '12 in exchange for moving '11 to 7:00. BTW, Rolan....are you the Rolan53 that posts highlight clips of LSU games on youtube?
I don't recall how the contract is written other than you'll see CBS "exercising their six day option" occasionally during the season. Based on what I remember, and my guessing as well, I'd think they are limited on the amount of games they can wait until the Monday before the game to choose. Otherwise, it's two weeks out for CBS.
