College Football on CBS
| SEC on CBS | |
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| Genre | College football telecasts |
| Presented by |
Brad Nessler Gary Danielson Allie LaForce Adam Zucker Rick Neuheisel Brian Jones |
| Theme music composer | Lloyd Landesman |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 21 |
| Production | |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 210 minutes or until game ends |
| Production company(s) | CBS Sports |
| Release | |
| Original network |
CBS SEC Network |
| Picture format |
480i (SDTV), 1080i (HDTV) |
| Original release | August 31, 1996 – present (current branding established in 2001) |
| External links | |
| Website | |
The SEC on CBS is the branding used for broadcasts of Southeastern Conference college football games that are produced by CBS Sports, the sports division of the CBS television network in the United States. CBS has been a television partner with the SEC since 1996, when the network returned to carrying regular-season college football on a weekly basis during the season. Televised games featuring teams outside the Southeastern Conference are branded as College Football on CBS.
CBS has been televising college football games since it launched a sports division, and did so on a weekly basis during a period from the 1950s to 1966, when ABC gained exclusive rights to all NCAA regular season games. CBS was reduced to airing the Cotton Bowl Classic, which it had aired since 1958. It added the Sun Bowl in 1968, which remains on CBS to this day As of 2016[update]. From 1974 to 1977, it also aired the Fiesta Bowl, and from 1978 to 1986 it carried the Peach Bowl.
For the 1982 season, CBS was made an additional partner in the NCAA contract, and regular season coverage returned to the network. CBS and ABC would alternate the 12:30 and 3:30 p.m. slots from week to week during the seasons, carrying either a national game or several regional games in those frames, and also occasionally aired games in prime time, and on Black Friday. CBS broadcast games from every major conference, as well as the games of the then major independents such as Penn State (now a Big Ten member), Notre Dame (still an independent in football, though a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) for non-football sports), and Miami (now in the ACC).
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