UT wide receiver Da’Rick Rogers (21) has a pass intended for him intercepted by Florida’s Jonathan Bostic (52) as his teammate Ahmad Black (35) watches during the second quarter of play last September. The Volunteers lost 31-17 to the Gators at Neyland Stadium
Staff File Photo by Dan Henry / Chattanooga Times Free PressTENNESSEESept. 3 Montana at home TBASept. 10 Cincinnati at home 3:30 on ESPN2Sept. 17 Florida in Gainesville 3:30 on CBSGEORGIASept. 3 Boise State in Atlanta 8 on ESPNSept. 10 South Carolina at home 4:30 on ESPNSept. 17 Coastal Carolina at home TBA
CBS will open its 16th season of televising Southeastern Conference football games by broadcasting the Florida-Tennessee matchup for a 16th consecutive time.
The network officially announced the Sept. 17 contest in Gainesville as its opening selection on Thursday, while ESPN released its broadcasts for the first three weeks of the season. The announcements were made at the SEC spring meetings in Destin, Fla., with those meetings scheduled to end today with decisions on roster management in college football and realignment in men’s basketball.
SEC commissioner Mike Slive also is expected to announce the league’s payout for the 2010-11 academic year.
The Florida-Tennessee rivalry, which the Gators have owned the past six seasons, is the only league game CBS has televised every year since becoming the SEC’s primary network in 1996. The network did not release much more, other than its two doubleheader dates are Oct. 1 (3:30 and 8 p.m.) and Nov. 12 (noon and 3:30 p.m.) and that the SEC title game Dec. 3 will have a 4 p.m. kickoff.