Audibles with CBS Sports’ Lead College Football Analyst Gary Danielson

               CBS Sports’ coverage of SEC College Football continues on Saturday, Sept. 29 (3:30 PM, ET) with national coverage of *#5-ranked Georgia taking on Tennessee.

            The CBS Television Network’s lead college football announce team of Verne Lundquist and Gary Danielson call the action live from Sanford Stadium in Athens, Ga. 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 analyst Spencer Tillman. 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 Tennessee-Georgia 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 9/24/12

AUDIBLES with CBS Sports’ Lead College Football Analyst Gary Danielson

(On Tennessee):

Tennessee stood toe-to-toe with Florida for the good part of three quarters, and then they got punched in the mouth one time with a big play. After that they seemed to go out of their comfort zone and panicked.  They need to learn from that. I believe they are going to be more comfortable on the road than at Neyland Stadium.  They feel the pressure at home trying to please their big crowd. Tyler Bray is good enough with those receivers that he can make Georgia play very honest on defense. This should be Tennessee’s best effort of the year.  If this one goes down or gets embarrassing, they’ve got trouble ahead.

(On Georgia’s Defense):

The way Todd Grantham has built his defense, they are very close to the two elite defenses in the league in Alabama and LSU.  The Bulldogs are one of the top five defenses anywhere in college football.  They are very gifted and have interchangeable parts at five or six different positions

(Keys to the game):

There are enough skilled athletes on Georgia’s defense that it’s going to give Tennessee pause. I’m curious to see if Tennessee will have the discipline to run the ball when it’s not working.  If they can’t run the ball, Georgia’s front seven rush will give them a lot of problems. Tennessee will devote a lot of time and effort to make sure they get first downs and not get into a shootout. Look for them to try and establish tight end Mychal Rivera to move the chains.  If this does become a high-scoring game, look for it to be a lot of late scoring. 

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