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CBS SPORTS' SEC COLLEGE FOOTBALL DOUBLEHEADER FEATURES PRIMETIME MATCH-UP BETWEEN NO. 3-RANKED LSU AND NO. 12-RANKED FLORIDA ON SATURDAY, OCT. 11

SEC EAST SHOWDOWN KICKS OFF DOUBLEHEADER AS

TENNESSEE TAKES ON NO. 10-RANKED GEORGIA

  

AUDIBLES with CBS Sports' Lead College Football Analyst Gary Danielson

  

CBS Sports' coverage of SEC College Football continues live on the CBS Television Network with a national doubleheader on Saturday, Oct. 11 featuring an SEC East match-up as Tennessee takes on *No. 10-ranked Georgia (3:30 PM, ET), followed by a primetime contest as undefeated and *No. 3-ranked LSU battles *No. 12-ranked Florida (8:00 PM, ET).

 

Play-by-play announcer Craig Bolerjack, along with analyst Steve Beuerlein handle the call from Sanford Stadium in Athens, Ga. for Tennessee-Georgia. Steve Scheer produces and Jim Cornell directs.

 

The CBS Television Network's lead college football announce team of Verne Lundquist and Gary Danielson call the action live from Ben Hill Griffin Stadium in Gainesville, Fla. Tracy Wolfson serves as lead reporter. Craig Silver, the Network's coordinating producer of college football, produces and Steve Milton directs.

 

CBS Sports' broadcast of both Tennessee-Georgia and LSU-Florida are available in high definition.

 

COLLEGE FOOTBALL TODAY, the Network's pre-game, halftime and post-game studio show, starts the day (3:00 PM, ET) with host Tim Brando, along with analysts Spencer Tillman and the Atlanta Journal Constitution's Tony Barnhart. 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.

 

A separate edition of COLLEGE FOOTBALL TODAY airs live on CBS COLLEGE SPORTS NETWORK (2:30-3:00 PM, ET) with Brando, Tillman and Barnhart. The 3:00 PM edition also is simulcast on CBS COLLEGE SPORTS NETWORK each week.

 

The Tennessee-Georgia and LSU-Florida 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 game 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.

 

*Coaches Poll as of 10/06/08

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AUDIBLES WITH LEAD COLLEGE FOOTBALL ANALYST GARY DANIELSON

(On must-win for Florida):

It is an absolute must-win for Florida. They have the schedule that favors them. They only have one more road game in the SEC this year and it's a manageable game at Vanderbilt. Vanderbilt is a good team, but it's better than going to Alabama or Georgia. This is a schedule that is manageable and winnable. If they win this game, they still could make a run at the National Championship because they will get to play LSU, Alabama and Georgia, and probably LSU or Alabama again, which will be good enough to get there.

(Desperate Teams on CBS Sports):

Of the four teams on CBS this weekend, three of the teams are in a desperate mode, in a must-win situation. Tennessee it's getting so ugly there it's an absolute must-win for them. Georgia just can't lose again, and then Florida. With three teams in a desperate situation, it should make for great football.

(On Florida's offense):

An injury to one of their key players, Cornelius Ingram, has kind of thrown them out of whack a bit. It seems like more-and-more teams are figuring out how not to stop Tim Tebow but how to control Tim Tebow. It appears they are looking for something new. They may have stumbled into it last week against Arkansas, where they put some more of their wide receivers in at running back. Instead of just having to throw the ball to their fast guys, they are now handing it to them. And it may be enough to crack the defense open enough to let Tebow be Tebow again.

(On LSU):

I have said all year that I would take LSU's 21 players, not counting the quarterback, and match them against anyone in the country. They may have the most talented 21 players. We still had to see how they would emerge with their new young quarterbacks. Their quarterbacks have come through a bit, but that was Auburn and Auburn is not a very good offensive team, therefore LSU was not forced to score. They could play safe with inexperienced quarterbacks and feel confident that the LSU defense could win. I thought Auburn would be their first real test, but in retrospect, their first test will be Florida on Saturday night.

(On Georgia-Tennessee):

Georgia has had a few key injuries that have really set them back. Now with Knowshon Moreno nicked with that elbow, more of the pressure falls on Matthew Stafford. Tennessee should match up pretty good against Georgia with the run game.  But I don't know if they can match up with the pass game.