Tennessee football will once again face Florida on CBS. The UT Volunteers and UF Gators will play in Gainesville at 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 16.
For the first time since the 2005 season, Tennessee football will be facing the Florida Gators looking to extend its own winning streak in the series rather than end another. And just like 2005, the Vols will play that game in The Swamp on CBS.
However, the coaches, broadcasters and time will be different.
Tennessee football played Florida in The Swamp in 2005 in front of Verne Lundquist and Todd Blackledge at night.
This game, according to a new release from CBS Sports, will be at 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 16.
The CBS Game of the Week broadcasters now are Brad Nessler and Gary Danielson with Allie LaForce on the sideline.
And the coaches were Phillip Fulmer against Urban Meyer in 2005, while this year it will be Butch Jones against Jim McElwain.
That is, of course, unless some crazy circumstance leads to a premature firing or resignation of either coach.
While the coaches are the same as the last two years, the quarterbacks will be different. Austin Appleby started against the Vols last year and was a graduate transfer senior.
Meanwhile, Tennessee football is still looking to replace quarterback Joshua Dobbs, who had one of his impressive five-touchdown performances against Florida last year.
So that could make this year’s game a very intriguing one.
On top of all of that, it will be the second week of the 2017 season that the SEC on CBS will be televised. The first is Saturday, Sept. 9, when the Arkansas Razorbacks face the TCU Horned Frogs.
Outside of those two weeks, CBS will also televise the Florida-Georgia game on Saturday, Oct. 28, the Missouri-Arkansas game on Friday, Nov. 24, and the Army-Navy game on Saturday, Dec. 9.
The SEC Championship game on Saturday, Dec. 2 and the Hyundai Sun Bowl on Friday, Dec. 29, will also take place on CBS.