Penn State rejects CBS request to move Alabama game, will play in prime time

We are less-than optimistic about Penn State's chances against Alabama on September 11th, but at least the entire nation will get a chance to watch the beatdown in prime time...

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Bama is the defending national champions and loaded.

We don't even know which inexperienced quarterback will start for us.

Oh well, it's on the schedule, so we might as well play...

CBS cannot show a game Sept. 11 because of its U.S. Open tennis coverage, so ESPN will have the luxury of televising Alabama-Penn State, Tennessee-Oregon, and Georgia-South Carolina on its family of networks.

CBS executive vice president Mike Aresco expects ESPN to televise Alabama-Penn State in prime time and realizes that's a good one that got away.

"The U.S. Open pretty much goes all day with the women's final that night," he said, "so even if we tried to compress everything to do Alabama-Penn State, you would have to severely compress the tennis. What if you have rain delays? So we never even went to the tennis people.

"We explored moving that game a week earlier, but Penn State didn't want to, which we understood. It's going be tough enough with a new quarterback going in to play the defending national champion."

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