This is an opinion column.
After The Finebaum Show concludes, the evening’s special programming begins.
In the Central time zone, it is 6 p.m. We’ll be done by eight because sixty or ninety minutes wouldn’t do when the 2024 SEC football schedule is revealed. The SEC Network’s 120-minute program adhered to the growing practice of turning emails into entertainment items.
But this marks the start of a new era that goes beyond Oklahoma and Texas’s accession to what was already a formidable region.
Greetings from the SEC television programming Monopoly Era.
CBS has decided to stop manipulating the ESPN empire’s schedule. This week, it was said in a low voice that there would be no more game-of-the-week at 2:30 p.m. outside the family.
Even before the 7,200-second SEC Network disclosure on Wednesday night, the Disney tentacles were already in motion.
A few game dates were made public on Monday Night Football on ESPN.
Several more were revealed during the Manning Cast alternate MNF broadcast on ESPN2.