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CBS SPORTS' FEATURES A BATTLE FOR FIRST IN SEC EAST AS NO. 5-RANKED FLORIDA TAKES ON NO. 8-RANKED GEORGIA ON SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1

SEC LEGEND ARCHIE MANNING RETURNS TO "COLLEGE FOOTBALL TODAY" STUDIO

  

AUDIBLES with CBS Sports' Lead College Football Analyst Gary Danielson

  

            CBS Sports' national network coverage of SEC College Football continues with a battle for first in the SEC East as *No. 5-ranked Florida battles *No. 8-ranked Georgia on Saturday, Nov. 1 (3:30 PM, ET).

  

The CBS Television Network's lead college football announce team of Verne Lundquist and Gary Danielson call the action live from Jacksonville Municipal Stadium in Jacksonville, 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 Florida-Georgia also will be simulcast 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 Archie Manning. 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 Manning. The 3:00 PM edition also is simulcast on CBS COLLEGE SPORTS NETWORK each week.

 

The Florida-Georgia game 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

 

*AP Poll as of 10/27/08

 

  

AUDIBLES with CBS Sports' Lead College Football Analyst Gary Danielson

 

(On Hype of Georgia-Florida):

When we finished the game last year I said to Verne Lundquist, 'I can't wait to do this game next year. It's going to be amazing because both teams will be ranked really high.' As you go through the off-season everybody said this would be one of the three biggest games of the year...Ohio State-USC, Texas-Oklahoma and Georgia-Florida. And you wonder since this hype started early in the year, would it live up to it? It has and it's even bigger than we thought because both teams are playing their best football right now.

 

(On Georgia's celebration last year):

What it did was entrench both sides in to this rivalry. It's so intense. It give so much more meaning and luster to the game. The rivalry was kind of fading a bit. Georgia was feeling like the little brother getting sand kicked in their face the whole time. They drew the line in the sand and said no more, 'You might beat me, but we aren't backing down ever again.' For the Georgia fans, it means everything. For the Florida football team it means everything because they used this as motivation all off-season. Now we will see what it means. This is why SEC football means so much to everyone because things like this happen. This will live in history forever down here. It's what makes this conference and these rivalry games so much fun to watch.

 

(On Tim Tebow Being 100% healthy):

Tim Tebow was a little bit nicked early on and no one talked about it. Urban Meyer didn't even tell us. They kept it well hidden that he had a little bit of a hyper-extended knee that he hurt early in the season. I wondered why he wasn't running like last year. He didn't seem the same. He was more of a finesse runner than a power runner. Urban Meyer has told us that he is finally 100%. We will see the real Tebow.

 

(On the two best quarterback in the country):

I really believe for half the schools that don't run the spread, you cannot find a quarterback in the country that can beat out Matthew Stafford. For the other half of the schools that do run the spread, I don't think you can find a quarterback in the country that could beat out Tim Tebow. This week we have the perfect spread quarterback facing off against the perfect pro-style quarterback. They are the two best quarterbacks in the country.

 

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