CBS SEC College Football: Game runs long: Who got switched?

[Studio20]

On the weekend when CBS turns up the pub on the SEC, a week out of the Conference championship game, the 1pm ET game between Tennessee and underdog Kentucky ran long..just like most games have this season. 5 minutes left fourth quarter, time to bail on this game for those of us in Florida for the UF vs FSU rout--- I mean rivalry.

They cut just as the teams were lining up to kick...and you could hear the disappointment in Verne Lundquist and Gary Danielsons voices as this doubleheader was crumbling about them. After all, you can't show your hand (or in this case, give your best lines when only 1 of the 50 states is watching you)

Back to the hype, it appears now that the "Mythical National Champion" will not come from the SEC thanks to LSU getting gored by Arkansas...so its time for the net to send its "Heisman Hype" into overdrive with Gator QB Tim Tebow. It doesn't hurt that Tebow is the major part of the offense..as the Oregon QB was before he got hurt. Its hoped there will be enough of Mr Tebow around to accept his accolades..

So were we in Florida the only folks in the country who missed out on the great UT-UK finish?

 

[Poledo]

So were we in Florida the only folks in the country who missed out on the great UT-UK finish?

This didn't apply to all of Florida. Pensacola, Fort Walton and Panama City get CBS out of Alabama, so we were watching the Tennessee game. Tallahassee's CBS station is licensed to Thomasville, Georgia, did they cut away for the start of the FSU game?

 

[azumanga]

Tallahassee's CBS station is licensed to Thomasville, Georgia, did they cut away for the start of the FSU game?

Since it involves FSU, I would think they will.

 

[BIG APE]

;D I care!! With a name like "Cockroach" whatda expect from it!

 

[chuckydoll]

Who got switched to Noles-Gators

Tallahassee and Ocala/Gainesville -- DMAs of the participating teams.

South Florida, Palm Beach, Southwest Florida, Tampa Bay, Orlando and Jacksonville -- also Florida-based DMAs.

Mobile/Pensacola -- 2-city DMA that includes the Panhandle.

Possibly also Dothan -- its CBS station is the de facto CBS for Panama City.

 

[Riley_dfwm]

Here in Pennsylvania we got the full UK-UT game.

ABC did something Saturday that I hadn't noticed but presume they were doing most of the season. Regional game on ABC, with ancillary game on ESPN2. We got the West Virginia game locally, with Georgia-GT on the Deuce. I guess the South had that reversed

 

[radioguy555]

I don't quite understand why CBS scheduled the UF/FSU game for 5pm ET anyway - kind of an odd start time. I know it was scheduled several weeks ago, so it's not like they knew that the big game between Missouri and Kansas at 8 PM on ABC was coming. I say they should've had Tennessee/Kentucky kick off at 3:30 and put UF/FSU in primetime because you never know how long a game could go on.

 

[BRice16]

I don't quite understand why CBS scheduled the UF/FSU game for 5pm ET anyway - kind of an odd start time. I know it was scheduled several weeks ago, so it's not like they knew that the big game between Missouri and Kansas at 8 PM on ABC was coming. I say they should've had Tennessee/Kentucky kick off at 3:30 and put UF/FSU in primetime because you never know how long a game could go on.

As someone that sat in the stands in Commonwealth Stadium on Saturday, I'm realy glad CBS saw fit to have the game at 1:30 eastern, it was cold enough then, a 3:30 start with four overtimes would have gone past 8 pm, downright frigid.

The thing to point out here is, CBS at least had the sense to schedule a three and a half hour window for UT/UK to try and avoid having to bail early in some areas, unlike ESPN/ABC which has the habit of only scheduling a three hour window, knowing that they will have to leave/join a game in progress.

 

[anotherguyTN]

I don't quite understand why CBS scheduled the UF/FSU game for 5pm ET anyway - kind of an odd start time. I know it was scheduled several weeks ago, so it's not like they knew that the big game between Missouri and Kansas at 8 PM on ABC was coming. I say they should've had Tennessee/Kentucky kick off at 3:30 and put UF/FSU in primetime because you never know how long a game could go on.

CBS has done this a few other times this year, with having a second college game that would run until 8:00 PM ET or later, similar to what they do on Sundays with NFL games, and probably with the same intent of trying to hold the audience over into prime time. Although you also have the same factor of hardcore football fans switching to ABC or cable after the second game is over. I won't be surprised to see them do this with NCAA basketball as well.

 

[jdkaraokeking]

Here in Pennsylvania we got the full UK-UT game.

ABC did something Saturday that I hadn't noticed but presume they were doing most of the season. Regional game on ABC, with ancillary game on ESPN2. We got the West Virginia game locally, with Georgia-GT on the Deuce. I guess the South had that reversed

Not in the Charlotte area on DirecTV. We had Georgia-Georgia Tech as our ABC game, and THE SAME GAME WAS BLACKED OUT ON ESPN2 when the deuce could have, and should have been showing UConn-West Virginia. ??? Stupid ESPN idiots, wasting a channel on a blackout! And it wasn't even shown on an alternate channel. The kicker was, the deuce started us on the WVU game, then switched to Georgia/GT, then cut off completely with the "This program is not available in the area" message at the bottom of the screen. The same thing happened earlier in the year with Clemson-Georgia Tech. But yet, another week, we get to see Cincinnati-South Florida when ABC had an ACC game. I can't remember if it was on the deuce or one of the ESPN alternate channels. Maybe you have cable or something. But I was not a happy camper.

 

[bpatrick]

Same thing happened in Raleigh/Durham.

As for the poster who said the SEC is probably out
of contention for the "mythical national championship,"
I offer one longshot possibility (and I do mean longshot):

The top four teams in the new BCS poll are:

1. Missouri
2. West Virginia
3. Ohio State
4. Georgia

Ohio State and Georgia have finished their schedules.
However, Missouri plays Oklahoma in the Big XII Championship
game Saturday, while West Virginia plays Pittsburgh.

By my calculations, if both Missouri and West Virginia win,
there's your "national championship" game. If one wins and
the other loses, Ohio State gets the one that wins. If both
Missouri and West Virginia lose, then it looks to me like Ohio
State and Georgia for the "national championship." Of course,
there may be an additional complication: Georgia isn't playing
for the SEC championship, and how that will figure with the
BCS committee, well, I don't know.

And Florida and FSU fans, I'm sorry for you that CBS didn't
get to show much of your game to the rest of us, but Tennessee-
Kentucky turned out to be a nailbiter. I stuck with that one, and
didn't get to see any but the fourth quarter of Georgia-Georgia Tech...
and UGA is my alma mater!

 

[bpatrick]

Well, I was 50% right; Ohio State is in, but
I was afraid Georgia might get passed over
because it didn't win the SEC championship
(although there's no BCS rule that says a
team has to win a conference championship
to make the BCS championship).

And how did Kansas wind up ranked below
Missouri, yet got a BCS bowl while the Tigers
got the Cotton Bowl?

There's still work to do on the BCS selection
of teams; Oklahoma and USC also have legitimate
arguments for playing for the BCS championship.
But you'll never get TPTB to agree to a playoff system.

Anyway, so as not to go completely off-topic,
the BCS championship game is January 7 at 8 PM (ET)
on Fox. Enjoy.

 

[KeithE4]

Well, I was 50% right; Ohio State is in, but I was afraid Georgia might get passed over because it didn't win the SEC championship (although there's no BCS rule that says a team has to win a conference championship to make the BCS championship).

And how did Kansas wind up ranked below Missouri, yet got a BCS bowl while the Tigers got the Cotton Bowl?

There's still work to do on the BCS selection of teams; Oklahoma and USC also have legitimate arguments for playing for the BCS championship. But you'll never get TPTB to agree to a playoff system.

Anyway, so as not to go completely off-topic, the BCS championship game is January 7 at 8 PM (ET)
on Fox. Enjoy.

And Fox has to be heaving a big sigh of relief now that West Virginia and Missouri both lost. A matchup between those teams would have been a ratings disaster. Ohio State and LSU are major football powers in major conferences with national followings. WV and MO are irrelevant outside of their home territories and their own alumni. They'd have good ratings in KC, St. Louis, and maybe Pittsburgh as far as larger markets go, but that's about it.

They may be good teams and good universities, but a championship game involving those teams won't play in the rest of the country. The Big East barely qualifies for the BCS (only half of their teams play football in the Big East, and some don't play football at all) and the only Big 12 schools that attract a national following in football are Texas, Oklahoma, and Nebraska.

I think I'll go out on a limb and say that if it had been West Virginia vs Missouri, there'd be a playoff system in place in 3 years (I think that's when the current BCS deal expires).

 

[bpatrick]

You've probably got something. Missouri turned out
to be a fluke; the experts were betting on Southern Cal
(another team that would have attracted good ratings
in a BCS championship, since it's located in Los Angeles).
In fact, the last time Missouri was number one, John F.
Kennedy was running for President (or he may have just
been elected).

But it still doesn't make sense that after all this, Missouri
ends up in the Cotton Bowl.

There's going to be a lot of discussion about this year's
postseason matchups, and as far as I'm concerned it's
all the more reason for a playoff system (he said, knowing
that has the proverbial snowball's chance you-know-where).

But I do agree: Ohio State-LSU is a bigger draw than
Missouri-West Virginia.