AUDIBLES with CBS Sports’ Lead College Football Analyst Gary Danielson

               CBS Sports’ coverage of SEC College Football continues on Saturday, Sept. 22 (3:30 PM, ET) with national coverage of *No. 7-ranked South Carolina taking on Missouri.

            The CBS Television Network’s lead college football announce team of Verne Lundquist and Gary Danielson call the action live from Williams Brice Stadium in Columbia, S.C. Tracy Wolfson serves as lead reporter. Craig Silver, the Network’s coordinating producer of college football, produces and Steve Milton directs.

                COLLEGE FOOTBALL TODAY, the Network’s pre-game, halftime and post-game studio show, starts the day on CBS Sports (3:00 PM, ET) with host Tim Brando, along with analysts Spencer Tillman and “Mr. College Football” Tony Barnhart.  COLLEGE FOOTBALL TODAY keeps viewers updated on all the games throughout the afternoon with scores and highlights. Vin DeVito produces and Linda Malino directs.

            After CBS Sports’ live SEC game coverage each Saturday throughout the season, CBS SPORTS NETWORK takes over with SEC TONIGHT (7:00-8:00 PM, ET), providing a recap of all the news, scores and highlights from around the SEC.

            In addition, CBS Sports will stream the Missouri-South Carolina game, as well as the entire 2012 SEC ON CBS football schedule live on CBSSports.com. The games are available exclusively on CBSSports.com, CBS Sports Mobile and also can be accessed through a link on the websites of all CBS affiliates.  New this season as part of CBSSports.com’s SEC coverage are live pre-game, half-time and post-game shows.

*AP Poll as of 9/17/12

AUDIBLES with CBS Sports’ Lead College Football Analyst Gary Danielson

(On Missouri’s Schedule):

Missouri has an opportunity to climb back in the race because if they can steal this game on the road, that would turn them around. They played very well against Georgia. The final score was misleading. After this game, the schedule turns in Missouri’s favor.  They have a number of winnable games leading into a home match-up against Alabama.  They could march their way into that game with a chance to make a big impact in the league.  This is the game they have to circle. 

(Keys to Missouri-South Carolina game):

Both offensive lines have shown weaknesses handling the pass rush.  With the defensive ends that South Carolina has, and the injury problems that Missouri has had, it’s a big challenge for the Tigers.  But South Carolina has allowed their quarterback to be hit a lot.  It’s going to be a challenge for each offensive line.

(On Steve Spurrier Changing his Offensive Philosophy):  

You turn on South Carolina tape these days, you see everything.  You don’t just see Spurrier trying to show off, trying to show how much he can trick opponents.  You see him dedicated to featuring his skill on offense and one of those players is Marcus Lattimore.  It’s common knowledge in football, that it’s hard to feature skill players on defense. You have to work as a unit, but you can feature mismatches on offense.  And I think Steve has embraced that the last couple years and that’s why South Carolina has positioned itself to compete in the league.  Since Steve was at Florida in his prime to now, the increased level of defense at linebacker, defensive end and pass rush defensive tackles has made it very difficult to win week-in-and week-out if you just depend on the pass.  And Steve has adapted. 

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