Tennessee likely to be the CBS SEC game four weeks in a row?

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Almost certainly will be on CBS. Could be night game if CBS goes with one of their two double heard options, could pair with Ole Miss - Arkansas. One of their traditional double header games is LSU-Bama and that doesn't look great at the moment, so there is a chance we could be on at night on CBS.
 
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CBS will have Alabama-Arkansas available to them the week we play A&M, so it's possible they take that instead. They also have Ole Miss-Arkansas the week we play Alabama. I find it less likely they'd take that one, but I guess it is possible.

CBS does have two doubleheaders, one of which is a 3:30/8:00, but it seems that's already been locked into the weekend of Nov. 5, meaning they were holding it for the Alabama-LSU game. It's possible that they're able to flex out of that and move to another weekend (given there's no luster left on the Bama-LSU matchup this year), but I'm kind of doubting it, based on what I'm reading. I think they're stuck there.

All that's a long way of saying that your only hope of a night game against Alabama is CBS picking Ole Miss-Arkansas instead, for whatever reason. And you probably don't want that, because it's hard to come up with a reason why they would even think of doing that unless we lose our next two games.
 
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CBS gets a primetime slot at some point in the season and ESPN has #1 choice for 2 weekends.

So the odds of it being a 3:30 game 4 weeks in a row is slim.

If Tennessee and Alabama are both undefeated and top-10; i suspect the game will be primetime on ESPN or CBS.

I don't think Gameday would return to Knoxville. Which is a shame, they'd miss out on Alabama/Tennessee weekend which has a FAR different old-school feel than Florida brings.
 
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Vol$_Deep_11_9 said:
Isn't there some type of clause in their contract where CBS can't cover the same team more than 3 teams in a season? Thought I had heard that. Regardless, if we make it through these next two games unscathed I don't see the Bama game being a 3:30 game. It'll be the 8pm game on ABC.
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It was 5-6 times at most, not including any SEC Championship game appearance.

And no, it won't be on ABC; the SEC's TV broadcasting rights contracts allow for conference games (or games at a conference team's home stadium) to be shown on CBS, SECN, or the ESPN networks (not "networks that Disney owns," but the ESPN networks, namely ESPN, ESPN2, so on). Contractually, ABC can't elect to air SEC conference games.
 
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nirwin said:
An SEC game can't be the 8 p.m. game on ABC. The Virginia Tech game was a separate situation and wasn't a part of the SEC's contract. The Battle at Bristol was like a bowl game (with no home teams) so the organizers could sell their game to whoever they wanted and they sold it to ESPN for the 8 p.m. ABC time slot.

Games that are a part of the SEC contract, however, can only be on CBS, ESPN, ESPN2 and SEC Network (and I think some can still bleed over onto ESPNU). If ESPN were to have the game, they could shift Fowler and Herbstreit over to it on ESPN, but it can't be on ABC. And CBS will have first crack. And the limit for one team is five, not three. So it's gonna be on CBS.
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I think the limit's 6 actually.

Alabama got 6 games last year outside of the conference championship game (vs UGA, A&M, UT, LSU, Miss St, and Auburn).
 
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Volsfaninva917 said:
I'm pretty positive the only way you're going to see an SEC team on ABC is at a neutral site or if they are the away team playing the Big10
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Exactly. A neutral site game or if the SEC team were visiting a team in either the Big 10, Big 12, or PAC-12.
 
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APLVol said:
If I'm not mistaken cbs has a doubleheader twice a year, would love to be the night game
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CBS declares the doubleheader weekends before the season starts each year.

This year they're a 3:30pm and 8:30pm game on Nov. 5 and a 12pm and 3:30pm game on Nov. 12.


Tennessee won't be eligible for the first pair, as they play Tennessee Tech on Nov. 5. The Nov. 12 game is TN vs UK, but that game also has to compete with UGA-Auburn, LSU-Arkansas, and Ole Miss-Texas A&M that weekend.
 
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vols1999 said:
The night game has already been announced as Bama-LSU
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It actually has not, but it is the speculative favorite as the other SEC games that weekend are:

UF-Arkansas
Vandy- Auburn
UGA- UK
A&M- Miss St
Missouri- South Carolina

...so it's easy to see why it's the favorite for the prime time slot (UT and Ole Miss won't be either CBS game that weekend, as they play Tennessee Tech and Georgia Southern, respectively).

CBS is only allowed to reserve the rights to 1 future SEC game beyond the first 3 weeks of the season - aside from the Thanksgiving game, now Arkansas vs Missouri -and they announced back in June that they chose the UGA-UF game (which has been the norm for them to do the last several years or so).


Shocker0 said:
:lolabove: I bet CBS regrets that move.
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They didn't announce that; it's the favorite for that night game:

They already chose Nov. 5 for the doubleheader though, so we can't be in it, however.
 
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MSCE09 said:
Almost certainly will be on CBS. Could be night game if CBS goes with one of their two double heard options, could pair with Ole Miss - Arkansas. One of their traditional double header games is LSU-Bama and that doesn't look great at the moment, so there is a chance we could be on at night on CBS.
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Evening doubleheader is Nov 5. We play Tennessee Tech that week, so won't happen.
 
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nirwin said:
CBS will have Alabama-Arkansas available to them the week we play A&M, so it's possible they take that instead. They also have Ole Miss-Arkansas the week we play Alabama. I find it less likely they'd take that one, but I guess it is possible.

CBS does have two doubleheaders, one of which is a 3:30/8:00, but it seems that's already been locked into the weekend of Nov. 5, meaning they were holding it for the Alabama-LSU game. It's possible that they're able to flex out of that and move to another weekend (given there's no luster left on the Bama-LSU matchup this year), but I'm kind of doubting it, based on what I'm reading. I think they're stuck there.

All that's a long way of saying that your only hope of a night game against Alabama is CBS picking Ole Miss-Arkansas instead, for whatever reason. And you probably don't want that, because it's hard to come up with a reason why they would even think of doing that unless we lose our next two games.
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Yeah, they don't really have a lot of flexibility with it after they declare it before the season, likely because it would effect any other partner networks' (in this case, ESPN's) ability to plan their future game selections. It was a mess for them to try to do such in 2011 when Alabama and LSU played...there were a lot of hoops the network had to go through to get it done and CBS had to even give ESPN either the rights to the next year's broadcast of that game - one CBS very much liked to show - or the ability to override CBS for the first choice one weekend the next season just to get them to let the deal go through.
 
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fryeguy93 said:
CBS gets a primetime slot at some point in the season and ESPN has #1 choice for 2 weekends.
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Is that first choice for two weekends or just first choice for the first two weekends of the season? ESPN gets first selection during the first two weekends of the season because when the SEC-CBS contract was written, CBS still had the rights to the US Open (which airs through the first two weekends of the season), so its rights to pick up SEC games didn't start until the third week of the season.

Even though CBS no longer has the TV rights to the US open, because both theirs and ESPN's contracts were written back when they still did and because of the way the language is in both contracts, CBS can't have first selection rights during those first 2 weeks.

In fact, the only reason CBS is actually even able to show an SEC game each of those weeks is because they have to buy an SEC game (each week) from ESPN that the network is willing to sell them (...which works, because ESPN is essentially "down" a network those two weekends as they devote ESPN2 to covering the US Open).
 
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UT is also pretty much already assured being on CBS the weekend of Nov. 19, due to pretty much lack of any other real SEC vs SEC games that weekend (the only ones are Arkansas at Mississippi State and Ole Miss at Vanderbilt).



What will probably happen is - after this weekend's game - we'll likely end up the CBS game for the weekend of Alabama (if Alabama is still #1, it probably won't matter if we win or lost to UGA); there's not really a terribly great SEC game otherwise.

The weekend of the A&M game is a bit more difficult. That weekend will has Alabama/Arkansas and LSU-UF. With Alabama being #1 and Arkansas still being ranked, that one might be more of a favorite, and LSU-UF has been a CBS favorite selection in the past. Either way, we'll likely know by tomorrow or Tuesday.
 
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Unless it's a double header it's hard to envision 4 in a row and giving up the LSU Florida game.
 
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God, I hope not. The picture quality of CBS on DirecTV compared to ESPN/SECNet was atrocious. I could understand some pixellation issues because local stations are compressed differently, but the color was terrible as well.
 
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ajvol01 said:
Yep - Neyland for sure

Florida '98
Bama '98
Arkansas '98
Kentucky '98
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You have some wrong info. 2002 was the only year gameday came to Knoxville twice (for Miami and UF games).

Gameday didn't come to Knoxville a single time in 1998.
 
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Boca Vol said:
It will NOT be on ABC! When is the last time you saw 2 SEC teams play a regular season game on ABC....it was 1995. It would be ESPN if it is a night game.
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Disney ABC owns ESPN..and they pick before the cable little brother
 
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Here are the games. I predict that CBS picks the Ark Bama game. Our game will be a night game on ESPN. LSU UF will be ESPN 2 or SEC Network.

Saturday, October 8, 2016
Alabama at Arkansas
LSU at Florida
Vanderbilt at Kentucky
Auburn at Mississippi State
Georgia at South Carolina
Tennessee at Texas A&M
 
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