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CBS SPORTS' COLLEGE FOOTBALL LINE-UP STUFFED FOR THANKSGIVING WEEKEND HIGHLIGHTED BY NO. 1-RANKED ALABAMA BATTLING AUBURN TO REMAIN UNDEFEATED ON SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29

CBS Sport' Thanksgiving weekend coverage of SEC college football kicks off on Friday, Nov. 28 (2:30-6:00 PM, ET) and continues on Saturday, Nov. 29 (12:00-7:00 PM, ET) with a national doubleheader.

 

            Arkansas takes on LSU to highlight Friday's coverage.  Saturday's doubleheader features a national broadcast of *No. 18-ranked Georgia Tech against *No. 13-ranked Georgia (12:00 NOON, ET). In the second game, No. 1-ranked Alabama looks to finish the regular-season undefeated as they battle Auburn (3:30 PM, ET).

 

All three games also will be broadcast in high definition.

  

            Verne Lundquist, Gary Danielson and Tracy Wolfson, CBS Sports' lead college football announce team handle the call for Auburn-Alabama from Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Ala., Craig Silver, the Network's coordinating producer of college football, produces and Steve Milton directs.

  

Craig Bolerjack and CBS College Sports' Trev Alberts call the action for the Georgia Tech-Georgia contest from Sanford Stadium in Athens. Ga.  Steve Scheer produces and Jim Cornell directs.

 

On Friday, Don Criqui and Dan Fouts are on hand for the match-up between LSU-Arkansas, live from War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock, Ark. Ken Mack produces and Mark Grant directs.

 

COLLEGE FOOTBALL TODAY, the Network's pre-game, halftime and post-game studio show on both Friday and Saturday is hosted by Tim Brando along with analyst Spencer Tillman. COLLEGE FOOTBALL TODAY will keep viewers updated on all the games throughout the afternoon with scores and highlights. Vin DeVito produces and Linda Malino directs. Harold Bryant is Vice President, Production, CBS Sports.

  

All three games will be streamed live and free of charge on CBSSports.com. Each week CBS Sports' SEC Game of the Week is available exclusively on CBSSports.com and also can be accessed through a link on the websites of all CBS affiliates.

 

Following the games on Saturday, CBS COLLEGE SPORTS NETWORK recaps all the action from around the SEC with "SEC Postgame Show Presented by Geico" (7:00 PM, ET). Host Greg Amsinger is joined by analysts David Pollack and Brian Jones

  

 

*AP Poll as of 11/24/08

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CBS Sports Contact:    Jennifer Sabatelle          212/975-4120              jsabatelle@cbs.com