ATHENS -- CBS loves the Georgia Bulldogs.
The SEC’s primary television network picked the No. 1-ranked Bulldogs again for its coveted 3:30 p.m. time slot in Week 8. Georgia will host Missouri on Nov. 4 at Sanford Stadium in a game that could go a long way toward determining the SEC Eastern Division championship.
That game will be part of a CBS doubleheader. The network will televise a key SEC West clash between Alabama and LSU in Tuscaloosa at 8 p.m.
It will be Georgia’s fifth appearance this season on CBS as its SEC national game of the week. The network also will carry the Bulldogs’ game against Florida in Jacksonville on Saturday, as it has every year since it became the SEC rights holder in 1996. CBS also carried Georgia’s games against South Carolina, Auburn and Vanderbilt.
Heading into Saturday’s game, the Bulldogs have played on CBS 120 times, more than any other network. They’re 74-45-1 in those games.
If Georgia can get by Florida this Saturday -- the Bulldogs are 14.5-point favorites -- it will set up an SEC East elimination game against Missouri. The Tigers (7-1, 3-1) are off this week, so they will be coming off a bye. Last year, they gave Georgia its biggest scare in SEC play. The Bulldogs rallied with a 14-point fourth quarter for a 26-22, come-from-behind victory in Columbia, Missouri.
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