CBS announces first 3.30pm SEC games

gamCBS has announced its first trio of SEC games that will be played at 3.30pm.

The first game on September 1st will see Tennessee host West Virginia – some people’s favorite to win the Big 12 – in Jeremy Pruitt’s first game as head coach of the Volunteers.

The next week will see Georgia go to South Carolina in an SEC East clash, and then on September 15th Auburn will try and avenge their horrific 2017 loss in Tiger Stadium when it hosts LSU.

Later in the year on October 27th, the bastion of sobriety known as The World’s Biggest Cocktail Party between Georgia and Florida in Jacksonville will be a 3.30pm game (CBS will be playing that it’s not a repeat of the 2017 blow-out), as will the SEC Championship Game on December 1st.

It might be strange not to see Alabama on the initial schedule, but you can be assured that the LSU game on November 11th will be a night kick-off. We would also be shocked if the 22nd September trip to Texas A&M to face Jimbo Fisher won’t be on at 3.30pm, as well as The Iron Bowl on 24th November.

For the first time in years (and with the aforementioned Alabama-A&M game), it looks as though the Florida vs Tennessee game will be at night and on the SEC Network).

Like last year, we won’t see many interdivisional clashes between SEC East teams. We don’t expect Kentucky, Missouri or Vanderbilt to feature on CBS ‘prime-time’. The UGA vs South Carolina and UGA vs UF games may be the only SEC clashes we see all season long. That’s because the SEC East is going to be bad, y’all.

Unfortunately, most of the games will involve Gary Danielson giving his opinion on matters.