BATON ROUGE — The Southeastern Conference has granted ESPN the six-day window option to determine which game the network will choose for its national telecast on Saturday, Oct. 18.
CBS has selected the Ole Miss-Alabama game for its national telecast next week, while ESPN will choose between the LSU-South Carolina game or the Vanderbilt-Georgia contest for its 7 p.m. CT national broadcast.
The game that ESPN bypasses will be aired on Raycom Sports at 11:30 a.m. CT. The SEC also announced that the game between Kentucky and Arkansas will be aired on ESPNU.
The SEC said that ESPN will make its announcement concerning next week’s games on Sunday afternoon.