The SEC’s Week 11 television picture is starting to come into focus, and a couple of the league’s biggest games are already jockeying for prime placement.
On Monday, the conference released preliminary kickoff times and TV designations for all eight of its Week 11 matchups. Two games are already set in stone: Alabama at Vanderbilt will kick at 12:45 p.m. ET on the SEC Network, while South Carolina at Arkansas has not yet been assigned a time or channel.
The rest of the slate still has some flexibility, with several windows listed as ranges rather than fixed slots. Auburn at Mississippi State is slated for noon ET on ESPN or ESPN2.
Ole Miss at Oklahoma and Tennessee at Texas A&M are both penciled in for the 3:00 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. ET window on ESPN or SEC Network.
The biggest TV decisions may come down to what happens in Week 10. Missouri at Georgia and Texas at LSU are both listed for either 3:30 p.m.
ET or 7:30 p.m. ET on ABC, and those assignments could shift depending on the results this weekend.
Florida at Kentucky is set for a 6:00 p.m. ET to 7:00 p.m.
ET window on ESPN.
If LSU beats Alabama and Texas defeats Missouri in Week 10, the Tigers-Longhorns game would likely land in the late-night ABC slot. But if Missouri beats Texas and Georgia wins in Oxford, Missouri-Georgia could end up there instead.
The SEC said exact kickoff times and network assignments will be finalized “no later than six days prior to any game.”
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