American live sports television program
College Football on CBS Sports
is the blanket title used for broadcasts of
college football
games that are produced by
CBS Sports
, for
CBS
and
CBS Sports Network
.
CBS first televised regular season college football games in 1950, airing them on a weekly basis during periods in the 1950s and 1960s. After
ABC
won an exclusive contract with the NCAA in 1966, CBS then retained the rights to air a few
bowl games
before returning to broadcast regular season games from the major conferences and
major independents
in 1982.
After being outbid by ABC, CBS's college football coverage between 1991 and 1995 was again reduced to only a handful of bowl games. In 1996, CBS signed a deal with the
Southeastern Conference
(SEC) to carry a weekly slate of regular season games, as well as becoming the television partner for the annual
Army-Navy Game
.
CBS acquired the now-
CBS Sports Network
in 2006, which has since televised college football from the
Mid American Conference
,
Conference USA
,
Mountain West Conference
and
Northeast Conference
, as well as home football games from
Army
,
UConn
and
Navy
.
In 2019, CBS declined to renew its rights to SEC football, with the package ultimately going to the conference's main rightsholder
ESPN
beginning in 2024. CBS subsequently reached a deal to televise
Big Ten
football beginning in 2023, which will replace CBS's SEC package in its traditional and alternate timeslots beginning 2024.
CBS's SEC telecasts are billed as
The Home Depot
SEC on CBS
, and all other televised college football games on the main network are usually billed as
The Home Depot College Football on CBS
. Starting in 2024, CBS’s Big Ten football broadcasts have been billed as
The Big Ten on CBS
.
History
[
edit
]
From 1946 through 1949,
WCBS-TV
aired
Columbia Lions football
home games locally. CBS began broadcasting games nationally in 1950, with
Red Barber
as the play-by-play commentator.
[2]
1950s
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CBS aired a weekly game during the
1950 college football season
, culminating in a broadcast of the
Army-Navy Game
with
Connie Desmond
doing the play-by-play. Desmond served as play-by-play commentator for CBS's 4 broadcasts in 1951, including the first ever color telecast when #5 California played #19 Penn. However the
NCAA
began strictly limiting broadcasts that season and CBS would not show regular season games again until 1955.
In 1953, CBS began covering the
Orange Bowl
annually, broadcasting the bowl annually until losing rights to ABC in 1962. CBS would add annual coverage of the
Gator Bowl
in 1954, broadcasting the bowl through 1963.
In 1955, CBS regular season coverage returned. CBS used
Joe Hasel
,
Bob Neal
,
Mal Stevens
,
Jack Drees
, Francis Wallace,
Tom Harmon
, and
Gil Stratton
as commentators. Drees was usually paired on commentary with Wallace on
Midwest
games, while Hasel and subsequently, Neal was paired with Stevens on
Eastern
regional games, and Harmon was paired with Stratton in games taking place on the
West Coast
. CBS would lose regular season rights to NBC the next year.
In 1958, CBS began annual coverage of the
Cotton Bowl Classic
, a tradition that would continue through 1998.
1960s
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By 1960, CBS showed four bowl games annually with the addition of the
Bluebonnet Bowl
, which would air on CBS through 1963.
In 1962 and 1963, regular season coverage returned to CBS.
Lindsey Nelson
,
Jim Simpson
and former Notre Dame head coach
Terry Brennan
were the lead broadcasters.
[3]
In 1966,
ABC Sports
gained exclusive rights to all regular season games and CBS was reduced to coverage of bowl games. The ABC exclusive contract would run through 1981.
CBS added the
Sun Bowl
in 1968, which continues to air on CBS as of 2022 in the longest-running contract with a single bowl and network.
1970s
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From 1974 to 1977, CBS also aired the
Fiesta Bowl
, and from 1978 to 1986 it carried the
Peach Bowl
.
1980s
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]
For the
1982 season
, CBS was made an additional partner in the NCAA contract, and regular season coverage returned to the network. CBS and
ABC
would alternate the 12:30 and 3:30 p.m. slots from week to week during the seasons, carrying either a national game or several regional games in those frames, and also occasionally aired games in prime time, and on
Black Friday
. CBS broadcast games from every major conference, as well as the games of the then major
independents
such as
Penn State
(now a
Big Ten
member),
Notre Dame
(a temporary
Atlantic Coast Conference
(ACC) member in 2020 only) and
Miami
(now in the ACC).
Per the September 1, 1982, edition of the
Elyria (OH) Chronicle Telegram
and the September 1, 1982, edition of
Sports Illustrated
, ABC and CBS officials met with NCAA representatives and flipped a coin to determine "control dates". This allowed the network with priority on a particular date to have first choice when selecting the game it wished to air and whether it wanted the 12:00 ET or 3:30
ET
timeslot. CBS won the first toss and thus earned first choice on seven dates: September 18, September 25, October 2, October 9, October 16, November 6, and November 20. ABC then got first pick on six dates, September 11, October 23, October 30, November 13, November 27, and December 4. ABC and CBS also had the right to take away a game from
WTBS
as long as it did so no later than the Monday before the game. WTBS was only able to show teams that had not been on national TV in 1981 and a maximum of four teams that had been on regional TV on two occasions.
As required by the NCAA, the network also televised Division I-AA, II and III games to very small audiences, giving teams such as
The Citadel
and
Clarion State
some television exposure (during the 1982 season, because of a player strike in the
National Football League
, these Division III contests aired nationwide). The pregame show was titled
The NCAA Today
in the vein of its pro football counterpart
The NFL Today
. Both shows were hosted by
Brent Musburger
. However, for the NCAA pregame show,
Pat O'Brien
and
Ara Parseghian
were the analysts/feature reporters, although
Lesley Visser
made occasional appearances on the show.
Gary Bender
was the lead play-by-play announcer for game coverage, working with analysts such as
Pat Haden
and
Steve Davis
. Other CBS game commentators were
Verne Lundquist
,
Lindsey Nelson
,
Frank Herzog
,
Jack Snow
and
Dennis Franklin
. This arrangement was in place during the 1982 and 1983 seasons.
Also during the
1982 NFL strike
, CBS' NCAA football contract required the network to show four
Division III
games; the network initially intended to show those games on Saturday afternoons, with the broadcasts being received only in markets that were interested in carrying them. However, with no NFL games to show on October 3, 1982 (on what would have been Week 5 of the NFL season) due to the strike, CBS decided to show all of its NCAA Division III games on a single Sunday afternoon in front of a mass audience. CBS also used their regular NFL crews (
Pat Summerall
and
John Madden
at
Wittenberg
?
Baldwin?Wallace
,
Tom Brookshier
and
Wayne Walker
at
West Georgia
?
Millsaps
,
Tim Ryan
and
Johnny Morris
at
Wisconsin?Oshkosh
?
Wisconsin?Stout
, and
Dick Stockton
and
Roger Staubach
at
San Diego
?
Occidental
) and aired
The NFL Today
instead of using their regular college football broadcasters.
CBS originally wanted to air some
Division I-A
games
on Sunday. However, according to
Sports Illustrated
, fellow
NCAA football rights
holders
ABC
and
WTBS
refused to sign off on the idea. Both networks demanded that CBS pay more in rights fees if it showed additional games. WTBS also objected to CBS moving games from Saturday to Sunday due to fears that such games would steal viewers from the NFLPA All-Star Games that WTBS planned to air. When the red tape made showing big time college football too difficult to pull off, CBS got the idea to run Division III games on that Sunday. It doesn't appear that CBS had plans to air any more games, however, since, Division III or not, it would have likely meant having to kick more money to the NCAA per ABC's and WTBS' demands.
In 1984, after the
U.S. Supreme Court
invalidated the NCAA contract in
NCAA v. Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma, and the University of Georgia
, the
College Football Association
was formed to handle affairs between television networks and college football programs, the result was an exclusive contract with ABC that granted the network rights to all CFA partner conference games and the games of most major independents. However, the
Big Ten
and
Pac-10
conferences were not included in this package, and signed their own agreement with CBS.
Miami
also reached an agreement for CBS to televise its most important home games, and in 1985, the Atlantic Coast Conference was added to CBS' list of college football properties. In 1985, Musburger took over the role of lead play-by-play voice, with Parseghian moving to the booth with him.
Jim Nantz
succeeded Musburger as studio host.
In 1987, CBS took over the CFA contract, which it would hold until 1990. CBS' tendency during this period was to air one marquee game each week, such as the legendary 1988 "Catholics vs Convicts" matchup between Notre Dame and Miami, though regional telecasts would occasionally be aired. For 1987 and 1988, Pat Haden joined Musburger in the booth, with
John Dockery
manning the sidelines. Nantz hosted what was now known as the "
Prudential
College Football Report", which was mostly a roundup of the day's scores and top headlines (including those in other sports), though sometimes key figures in the sport would be interviewed. Verne Lundquist,
Tim Brant
,
Dick Stockton
,
Steve Zabriskie
and
Brad Nessler
also called games for CBS during the CFA period. In 1989, Nantz became lead play-by-play announcer, but Haden remained the lead analyst for that year, being replaced by Brant in 1990.
1990s
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After 1990, ABC obtained exclusive network coverage of regular season college football, as it won back the CFA and retained the Pac-10/Big Ten rights.
As the 1990s began, CBS' Division I-A college football coverage was reduced to its bowl game contracts, which it had with the then-John Hancock (reverted to Sun Bowl in 1994), Cotton and the then-
Blockbuster
bowls. However, it lost the rights to the Cotton Bowl to
NBC
after the 1992 game, leaving the network with just two bowl games to round out its college football coverage. CBS televised
Major League Baseball
from 1990 to 1993, so as a result the network was not without major sports coverage on Saturdays during the fall after the loss of college football. In 1994 and 1995, after losing the MLB contract and its
NFL contract
, trying
but failing
to
buy NHL rights
, and still unable to secure a college football contract, CBS did not have any major sports coverage in the fall. (In desperation, the network began talks with the
Canadian Football League
, but nothing came of them.)
For 1995, CBS re-acquired the rights to the Cotton Bowl Classic and also gained rights to the
Fiesta Bowl
and the
Orange Bowl
from NBC. This was an important move for CBS as those two bowls would become part of the
Bowl Alliance
with the
Sugar Bowl
beginning that season; the goal was to try to guarantee an undisputed national champion in college football, something its predecessor the
Bowl Coalition
had also tried but did not fully succeed in doing.
Under the terms of the contract, which ran from
1995
through
1997
, the Bowl Alliance games would be scheduled for New Year's Eve, New Year's Night, and January 2 with the last of the three serving as the national championship game. CBS would thus be guaranteed two national championship game matchups, with the Sugar Bowl airing on ABC.
CBS was the first network to air a Bowl Alliance national championship game, as
Nebraska
defeated
Florida
in the
1996 Fiesta Bowl
(on the same token, CBS also aired the last Bowl Alliance national championship game, where Nebraska defeated
Tennessee
in the
1998 Orange Bowl
to split that year's national championship vote as
Michigan
, which was No. 1 in both the
AP
and
Coaches Polls
going into the bowls, with the latter contractually obligated to name the Nebraska?Tennessee winner as the national champion, was obligated to play in that year's
Rose Bowl
). CBS also continued to air the Sun Bowl, but lost the rights to the
Carquest Bowl
after the game was moved from New Year's Day following the Orange Bowl's move to the home of the Carquest Bowl,
Joe Robbie Stadium
.
CBS resumed full-time college football coverage in 1996, as the network signed television contracts with the
Big East Conference
and
Southeastern Conference
(SEC) to be the exclusive national television home of their in-conference schedules. The coverage was originally branded "College Football on CBS", sponsored initially by
NASDAQ
, a tag it retains for non-SEC games broadcast on the network.
CBS also televised games featuring non-Big East or SEC teams during this time. As part of the contract signed in 1996, CBS succeeded
ABC Sports
as the television home of the
Army-Navy Game
.
On September 26, 1998, CBS planned to show
UCLA
@
Miami
at noon, but this game was postponed due to
Hurricane Georges
.
Sean McDonough
and
Terry Donahue
were the scheduled announcers.
CBS lost the rights to three of its bowl games following the 1997 season, as ABC gained the rights to the Orange and Fiesta Bowls as the exclusive television home of the newly formed Bowl Championship Series and
Fox
acquired the rights to the Cotton Bowl Classic.
2000s
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Beginning in 2001, CBS became the home of the
SEC Championship Game
, the rights to which had been retained by ABC following the SEC's move. Following the 2000 season, the Big East decided not to renew its contract with CBS and instead signed with ABC, leading to the telecasts taking on the
SEC on CBS
branding.
Until 2023, CBS aired the top SEC weekly in-conference games as well as rivalry games with various other conferences when the SEC team is the home team. The network shared the rights to SEC conference games with the ESPN family of networks, which also airs the interconference rivalry games when the SEC team is not the home team (with the exception of Notre Dame), as well as all Pac-12/SEC regular season games.
In 2000, CBS installed
Verne Lundquist
on its No. 1 team following Sean McDonough's departure from CBS Sports.
The
events
of September 11, 2001, resulted in postponements for games scheduled the weekend of September 15. The
Tennessee
-
Florida
game was rescheduled to December 1, which pushed the
SEC title game
one week later to December 8.
In 2005,
CBS Sports Network
, then operating as CSTV, signed a multi-year agreement to air select
Conference USA
football games.
[4]
CBS Sports Network has aired the
Conference USA Football Championship Game
since 2018.
[5]
CBS aired the
Gator Bowl
from 2007 to 2010, its biggest bowl acquisition since the Orange and Fiesta Bowls.
2010s
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Until 2014, CBS maintained SEC exclusivity during its 3:30 p.m. Eastern Time window. As part of an extension to CBS's contract with the SEC through the 2023?24 season, CBS no longer has exclusivity during its afternoon window, but still has the first choice of games.
[6]
CBS was limited to airing five games featuring a particular team per season, and was allowed to air one game in primetime per season.
[7]
In 2014, the
Iron Bowl
was given to ESPN in favor of the
Egg Bowl
, due to its potential effects on
Mississippi State
's participation in the
College Football Playoff
).
[8]
[9]
Before 2019, CBS had rights to three non-SEC regular season matchups, including the Army-Navy Game. CBS and
NBC Sports
split coverage of the annual matchup between
Notre Dame and Navy
, with CBS televising the game in years where Navy served as the host team. CBS also added the
Mountain West championship game
to its coverage per a pre-existing contract that the network has with the conference (although most of the games air on
CBS Sports Network
); the game began in the last hour of primetime for the Eastern and Central time zones, meaning stations in those zones in most cases would not carry a late local newscast that evening. The Mountain West Championship Game was moved to
ESPN
networks beginning in 2015.
In 2011, in addition to Army?Navy, CBS also broadcast the other two service academy games: Navy?Air Force on October 1 and Army?Air Force on November 5, 2011 (a game which opened up as a result of CBS using its 8:00 p.m. game assignment for LSU-Alabama). Air Force's annual games vs. Army and Navy continue to air on CBS or
CBS Sports Network
.
In 2015, CBS Sports acquired the rights to 12
MAC
football games through a sublicensing agreement with
ESPN
.
[10]
In 2019, CBS Sports extended its contract with the MAC for four more years.
[11]
Verne Lundquist retired from his role as lead play-by-play commentator for CBS after the
2016 Army-Navy Game
.
Brad Nessler
, formerly of ESPN, joined CBS as a secondary play-by-play announcer during the 2016 season, and officially replaced Lundquist on December 30, 2016, for CBS's coverage of the
2016 Sun Bowl
.
[12]
2020s
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After the 2020 season, CBS lost its alternating rights to the Navy?Notre Dame game to
ESPN
. The rights were bought as part of a new media rights contract signed between the network and the
American Athletic Conference
, which Navy has affiliated with for football since 2015.
On December 20, 2019, it was reported by
Sports Business Journal
that after having offered $300 million per-season, CBS had exited negotiations to renew its SEC package beyond the 2023 season. The network cited a need to "aggressively focus on other important strategic priorities moving forward".
[13]
[14]
On December 10, 2020, ESPN announced that it had acquired the top SEC rights under a 10-year deal beginning in 2024, valued at $3 billion over the length of the contract. The games are slated to air on ABC, thus centralizing the entirety of the SEC's media rights with The Walt Disney Company.
[15]
On May 11, 2020, CBS Sports agreed to a multi-year deal through the 2023 season to become the home of
UConn Huskies
home games, which will mostly air on CBS Sports Network.
[16]
In August 2022, it was reported that CBS Sports was nearing a deal for rights to Big Ten football under its next round of broadcast contracts, expanding upon its rights to cover Big Ten
basketball
.
[17]
[18]
[19]
[20]
On August 18, 2022, CBS reached a seven-year deal to broadcast Big Ten football and basketball beginning in the 2023 season. CBS will air up to 15 Big Ten football games per-season, including a Friday afternoon game on
Thanksgiving
weekend, and the
Big Ten Football Championship Game
in 2024 and 2028. In addition to the network's alternate 12:00 p.m. ET and 7:30 p.m. ET windows, Big Ten games will replace the SEC on CBS's traditional 3:30 p.m. ET window beginning in the 2024 season; CBS will carry seven Big Ten games in 2023 around its final season of SEC coverage, which will mostly be part of doubleheaders and tripleheaders with SEC and/or Mountain West games.
[19]
[21]
In 2023, CBS Sports Network began airing football games from the
FCS level
Northeast Conference
.
[22]
Theme music
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The instrumental theme music for CBS's college football broadcasts was written by New York composer
Lloyd Landesman
, and has been used since the
1987 season
. The theme music was originally used for CBS's broadcast of
Super Bowl XXI
on January 25, 1987, but it was later decided that the piece was better suited for college football than the
National Football League
.
[1]
After CBS acquired the rights to air SEC games in 1996, the theme music became synonymous with that conference.
[1]
[23]
In August 2022, news of CBS's intention to continue using the theme music for its Big Ten games spawned outbursts from upset SEC fans on
Twitter
.
[23]
[24]
[25]
Typical games
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Typically only
SEC on CBS
games,
Big Ten on CBS
games, select Mountain West games featuring Boise State, games involving the
Commander-in-Chief's Trophy
(
Army-Navy
, Army-Air Force, and Air Force-Navy) and the
Sun Bowl
air on
CBS
with all other games airing on
CBS Sports Network
.
The games aired as part of the SEC package are the premiere SEC matchups of the week. Since 1996, Alabama has had the most appearances with 128 of their games broadcast by CBS, followed by Florida with 110, Georgia with 95, LSU with 82, and Tennessee with 77. The
ESPN family of networks
get the subsequent picks of games among the SEC's national television partners. Since
2001
, the
SEC Championship Game
has been televised by CBS.
The
Vanderbilt Commodores
have appeared on the CBS package only seven times, with a 2013 game against Georgia (a 31?27 victory) marking their first appearance since 2001, and the first Vanderbilt home game televised by the network since 1982. Before their remarkable 2014 season, when they appeared four times (including the first
Egg Bowl
ever broadcast by CBS),
Mississippi State
had only seven CBS games as part of the package.
During the regular season, typical games that are shown almost every year include Florida?Tennessee (1996?2011, 2013, 2015?2017, 2020, and 2022),
Florida?Georgia
(all but 2002), Auburn?Alabama (the
Iron Bowl
) (since 2000, except for 2003, 2007 and 2014),
LSU?Alabama
(except for 2021 and 2022),
Florida?LSU
(1999, 2001, 2003, 2005?2009, 2011?2013, and 2017?2018),
LSU?Ole Miss
(2003, 2007?2010, 2012, 2015, and 2021) and
LSU?Arkansas
(1996?2013, except 2009), which was traditionally aired the day after
Thanksgiving
. The
Arkansas?Missouri
game is now aired the Friday after Thanksgiving, since
Texas A&M
has replaced Arkansas as the final opponent on LSU's schedule.
In addition, the interconference rivalry games,
Florida?Florida State
,
South Carolina?Clemson
,
Georgia?Georgia Tech
and (since 2014)
Kentucky?Louisville
, occasionally air on the network when the SEC schools host the games and they fall into SEC television contracts (otherwise, those games air on ABC or the ESPN networks, as the ACC's contracts dictate). When the interconference rivalries air on CBS, the broadcasts are generally branded as "College Football on CBS" instead of "SEC on CBS". In addition, CBS will occasionally televise games where SEC schools host marquee non-conference opponents, such as the
Miami Hurricanes
and
Notre Dame Fighting Irish
.
CBS Sports Network
airs weekly games from the
Mid-American Conference
,
C-USA
and
Mountain West
, as well as all
UConn
home games and select
Army
and
Navy
home games. CBSSN also airs the
Conference USA Football Championship Game
and the
Hula Bowl
yearly.
Team records
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1996 through December 9, 2023 ? does not include bowl games
Note:
1
One Penn State win over Pittsburgh was vacated (later restored) following the
NCAA investigation into the Jerry Sandusky case
.
Notable personalities
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Current
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Play-by-play
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- Brad Nessler
: lead play-by-play (2017?present), No. 2 play-by-play (2016)
- Tom McCarthy
: No. 2 play-by-play (2022?present)
- Rich Waltz
: lead Mountain West Conference play-by-play
- Chris Lewis: play-by-play (2021?present); #4 play-by-play (2023?present)
- Jason Knapp
: play-by-play (2019?present), No. 2 Mountain West Conference play-by-play (2019?2021)
- John Sadak
: lead Navy play-by-play
- Chick Hernandez: play-by-play (2021?present)
- Ed Cohen
: fill-in play-by-play (2013?present)
- Dave Ryan
: play-by-play (2012?present)
- Alex Del Barrio: play-by-play (2020?present)
- Michael Grady: fill-in play-by-play (2018?present)
- Carter Blackburn
: fill-in play-by-play (2022?present), lead Mountain West Conference play-by-play (2014?2020), No. 2 play-by-play (2014?2015; 2017?2020)
- Jordan Kent
: No.2 Navy play-by-play (2023?present)
Color analysts
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Sideline reporters
[
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]
- Jenny Dell
: (2015?present, No. 1 since 2022, No. 2 2015-2016)
- Sheehan Stanwick Burch: Navy sideline reporter
- Tina Cervasio
: Army sideline reporter (2016?present)
- Amanda Guerra: (2019?present)
- Brandon Baylor: (2021?present)
- Justin Walters: (2019?present)
- Tiffany Blackmon
: (2023?present)
- Emily Proud: (2023?present)
- Keiana Martin: (2023?present)
Studio
[
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Former
[
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Play-by-play
[
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Sideline reporters
[
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]
Studio hosts
[
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]
Studio analysts
[
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]
Features
[
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]
- College Football Kickoff presented by
Mercedes-Benz
(pregame show aired at 2:30 pm. Eastern Time)
- State Farm
College Football Today (main
pre-game show
aired at 3:00 pm. Eastern Time and simulcast on CBS Sports Network prior to their 3:30 p.m. college game)
- Starting Lineups presented by
Chick-fil-A
- Ford
Update (throughout the game)
- Nissan
Heisman Watch (throughout the game)
- Geico
Halftime Report (formerly sponsored by
EarthLink
until 2004)
- Preview of Sunday's
NFL on CBS
matchups
- First Half Trends Presented by
Enterprise Rent-a-Car
(at the start of second half)
- Aflac
Trivia Question
- The Home Depot
Tools for Success
- Geico
Game Recap (formerly showed only scoring plays until 2008 as the "Scoring Recap")
- Quicken Loans
Scholar Athlete (formerly sponsored by
Red Lobster
until 2016)
- NAPA Auto Parts
Play of the Game (formerly named the "Wrangler 5-Star Play of the Game")
- U.S. Army
Post-game Show (formerly sponsored by
Jeep
until 2016,
Dodge
until 2018, and by
Rocket Mortgage
until 2022)
In addition, CBS Sports Network aired the hour-long
SEC Post-Game Show Presented by Geico
at 7:00 pm. Eastern Time, featuring the wrap-up of the CBS SEC game.
Nielsen ratings
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Regular season
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Rank
|
Date
|
Matchup
|
Network
|
Viewers (millions)
|
TV ratings
|
Significance
|
1
|
November 9, 2019, 3:30 ET
|
#2 LSU
|
46
|
#3 Alabama
|
41
|
CBS
|
16.64
|
9.7
|
Alabama-LSU football rivalry
|
2
|
November 25, 2017, 3:30 ET
|
#1 Alabama
|
14
|
#6 Auburn
|
26
|
13.66
|
7.6
|
Iron Bowl
|
3
|
November 5, 2022, 3:30 ET
|
#1 Tennessee
|
13
|
#3 Georgia
|
27
|
13.06
|
6.7
|
College GameDay
,
Rivalry
|
4
|
October 15, 2022, 3:30 ET
|
#3 Alabama
|
49
|
#6 Tennessee
|
52
|
11.56
|
6.1
|
Third Saturday in October
|
5
|
November 3, 2018, 8:00 ET
|
#1 Alabama
|
29
|
#3 LSU
|
0
|
11.54
|
6.6
|
Alabama-LSU football rivalry
|
6
|
November 30, 2019, 3:30 ET
|
#5 Alabama
|
45
|
#15 Auburn
|
48
|
11.43
|
6.3
|
Iron Bowl
|
7
|
November 7, 2015, 8:00 ET
|
#2 LSU
|
16
|
#4 Alabama
|
30
|
11.06
|
6.4
|
Alabama-LSU football rivalry
|
8
|
November 5, 2016, 8:00 ET
|
#1 Alabama
|
10
|
#13 LSU
|
0
|
10.38
|
5.8
|
9
|
November 27, 2021, 3:30 ET
|
#3 Alabama
|
24
|
Auburn
|
22
|
10.37
|
5.3
|
Iron Bowl
|
10
|
October 17, 2020, 8:00 ET
|
#3 Georgia
|
24
|
#2 Alabama
|
41
|
9.61
|
5.3
|
Alabama-Georgia football rivalry
|
Conference championships
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Bowl games
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References
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