Interesting tidbit on the SEC/CBS contract...

[8dog]

"The biggest difference between the new agreement and the current pact is that CBS will no longer have to deal with ESPN for priority picks on football games. CBS currently gets to pick seven of the top 10 games before each season, with ESPN getting the fourth, eighth and 10th selections.

ESPN used its priority picks this year on Auburn-LSU, Alabama-Georgia and Tennessee-South Carolina, but the new agreement will allow CBS to have the first pick every week. CBS will keep using 3:30 p.m. Eastern as its time slot and will continue to broadcast one additional game at noon, one at 8 p.m., one game the Friday after Thanksgiving, and the league title game."

So the schedule that was leaked is a list of the games reserved by CBS that week it appears.

 

[RebelBruiser]

More flexibility for CBS and less options for ESPN means that we'll get even less positive press from ESPN. ESPN will spend most of its time hyping non-SEC teams for the BCS title game.

What's going to be funny is if UGA-Florida is a No. 1 vs. No. 2 or No. 1 vs. No. 3 match up, and Gameday has to go to some other obscure location because they are required to go to a game that's broadcast on ESPN or ABC.

 

[8dog]

they went to KY last year when the FL-KY game was on CBS.

 

[Paper Dog]

nt

 

[RebelBruiser]

They may have gotten rid of the rule, but I do remember hearing something like that. One of the early instances where it showed up was when LSU and Auburn were both playing each other and both were in the top 10, yet Gameday went to USC-Nebraska primarily because it was the ABC game.

They may not come out and say it, but I definitely think you'll see them spend more efforts promoting their own network games rather than promoting SEC games on CBS.

 

[8dog]

and found fairly recent comments from Fowler where he says a. the 3 of them have no say in it and b. it is definitely based, in part on network.

But as Colin Cowherd said when someone called bitching about ESPN promoting its own stuff: "ESPN is a business..we are not building huts in Equador for Habitat for Humanity."

 

[saltybulldog]

And he is right.

 

[PineGroveBully]

nt

 

[RebelBruiser]

USC-Ohio State is that same weekend. USC will be the site for Gameday that weekend unless it somehow falls into the ocean between now and then.

Along with that, MSU doesn't have high enough pre-season expectations to land a Gameday that early in the season. You'd have to go on a big string of wins, get nationally ranked, and then host a top 10 opponent to have a shot. That, or you'd have to start out as a pre-season hyped team playing another really good one early.

 

[patdog]

if we can beat LA Tech and Southeastern LA to go into the Auburn game 2-0.</p>

 

[Xenomorph]

..In the 'Others receiving votes' category we'd jump from 2 votes to 5.

 

[dawgstudent]

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