Gary Danielson’s Iowa-PSU assignment over Alabama-Ole Miss raised eyebrows
The news of Danielson's assignment on Saturday split viewers into two camps.
The news of Danielson's assignment on Saturday split viewers into two camps.
"The networks and the conferences understand that you don’t want to make the games unwatchable."
Hopefully the consolidation of college football and the superconference era brings no more Saturdays like this one.
With realignment dramatically altering the college football landscape, the 2023 season will mark the end of an era around the country.
"I fought it. I didn’t want to do it."
This is pretty on brand for Nick Saban, who like Bill Belichick and Gregg Popovich, often has his petulance with the media excused.
Ross Dellenger of Sports Illustrated reports that "The Big Ten’s deal will be arranged in a way to allow CBS to fulfill its SEC duties in the first year of the contract."
CBS has elevated Dell into Erdahl's old role, and Burruss into Dell's old role.
Erdahl made some impressive shots here.
"We plan to be involved in the business of college football, big-time college football, going forward, and to take advantage of that tradition we've established."
Erdahl provided some play-by-play for a few plays with Nessler and Danielson off the air.
One SEC game this week has already been postponed, and others could be, including the CBS game of Alabama-LSU.
“We believe that we have a good faith obligation to offer to enter into an exclusive negotiation period with CBS, but do not believe that CBS has any first refusal rights for reasons that can best be addressed by our legal counsel.”
LSU - Alabama was the second-most-watched regular-season college football game since 2011.
"It's fun to call a game when there's points and there's strategy and it's not just every yard is such a grind and every third down is 'God, is anybody ever going to convert a third down?' You've got these two offenses that can score literally in 11 seconds."
Alabama-LSU has been a primetime CBS game every year since 2010, but it won't be this year thanks to CBS' pick of Notre Dame-Georgia as their one contractually-allowed primetime game.
The CBS pick of Alabama-Texas A&M happened before last weekend's Florida win, but it also likely has a lot to do with markets and viewers.
Steratore has previously worked for CBS on NFL and NCAA basketball coverage. Now, he'll be adding SEC on CBS work as well.