The 2023 college football season will be one of overlap at CBS. The network is in the final year of its television deal with the SEC and the first year of its new deal with the Big Ten.
SEC fans have been outspoken with their displeasure over the network continuing to use the iconic music for the SEC on CBS package even after the relationship ends. They probably won’t be too happy with the way the season is starting either.
While Brad Nessler and Gary Danielson will call plenty of Big Ten games in the future, they are still the SEC on CBS crew for one more year. However, their season will actually start in the Midwest.
During week one of the college football season, Nessler, Danielson and sideline reporter Jenny Dell will be in Bloomington, where the Indiana Hoosiers will host Ohio State.
This is not a matter of CBS shunning the SEC at all. The final season of the two sides relationship will not begin until week three when the defending national champion Georgia Bulldogs host South Carolina.
College football’s first full week of action will see games spread over the course of five days. That gives CBS the opportunity to air an extra game. The crew expected to work the majority of the network’s Big Ten schedule will debut on Sunday of that week when Tom McCarthy, Jason McCourty and Tiffany Blackmon cover Northwestern’s visit to Rutgers.
