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 and ABC would alternate the 12:30 and 3:30 p.m. Since 2017, CBSSN has carried the Arizona Bowl, though COVID-19 issues led to the 2020 edition being aired on the main CBS network.įor the 1982 season, CBS was made an additional partner in the NCAA contract, and regular season coverage returned to the network. CBSSN carried the Cure Bowl from 2015 to 2019. From 1974 to 1977, it also aired the Fiesta Bowl, and from 1978 to 1986 it carried the Peach Bowl. It added the Sun Bowl in 1968, which continues to air on CBS as of 2022. CBS was reduced to airing the Cotton Bowl Classic, which it had aired since 1958. Drees was usually paired on commentary with Wallace on Midwest games, while Hasel and subsequently, Neal was paired with Stevens on Eastern regional games, and Harmon was paired with Stratton in games taking place on the West Coast. During that time period, CBS used Joe Hasel, Bob Neal, Mal Stevens, Jack Drees, Francis Wallace, Tom Harmon, and Gil Stratton as commentators.
CBS subsequently reached a deal to televise Big Ten football beginning in 2023, which will replace CBS's SEC package in its traditional timeslot beginning 2024.ĬBS's SEC telecasts are billed as the The Home Depot SEC on CBS, and all other televised college football games on the main network are usually billed as The Home Depot College Football on CBS.ĬBS 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. In 2019, CBS declined to renew its rights to SEC football, with the package ultimately going to the conference's main rightsholder ESPN beginning in 2024. CBS acquired the now- CBS Sports Network in 2006, which has since televised college football from the Mid American Conference, Conference USA and Mountain West Conference, as well as home football games from Army, UConn and Navy. In 1996, CBS signed a deal with the Southeastern Conference (SEC) to carry a weekly slate of regular season games, as well as becoming the television partner for the annual Army-Navy Game. After bring outbid by ABC and other networks, CBS's college football coverage between 19 was again reduced to only a handful of bowl games.
CBS then retained the rights to air a few bowl gamess before returning to broadcast regular season games from the major conferences and major independents in 1982.
#Southeastern conference wiki series#
American TV series or program College Football on CBS SportsĬollege Football on CBS Sports is the blanket title used for broadcasts of college football games that are produced by CBS Sports, for CBS and CBS Sports Network.ĬBS first televised regular season college football games on a weekly basis during a period from the 1950s to 1966.
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