SEC TV Game Times Set for Oct. 16 - Kentucky At Georgia Takes 2:30 p.m. CBS slot

A possible showdown for the SEC East title between No. 2 Georgia and No. 16 Kentucky on Oct. 16 at Sanford Stadium in Athens, Georgia will be the 2:30 p.m. central time CBS game, the SEC office announced Monday.

Georgia is 5-0 overall and 3-0 in the SEC going into its game at No. 18 Auburn (4-1, 1-0 SEC) this Saturday at 2:30 p.m. on CBS. Kentucky (5-0, 3-0) hosts LSU (3-2, 1-1) at 6:30 p.m. Saturday on the SEC Network. Georgia is favored by 14.5 points, while Kentucky is a 3.5-point favorite, according to FanDuel.

No. 1 Alabama will play at Mississippi State at 6 p.m. on Oct. 16 on ESPN.

Two other Oct. 16 games will be at 11 a.m. on either CBS or ESPN, though those decisions will be made after this Saturday's games. Those are Auburn at Arkansas and Florida at LSU.

A week from Saturday, the SEC Network will show Texas A&M at Missouri at 11 a.m., Vanderbilt at South Carolina at 3 p.m., and Ole Miss at Tennessee at 6:30 p.m.

The complete schedule for this Saturday's SEC games are as follows:

Arkansas at Ole Miss, 11 a.m., ESPN; Vanderbilt at Florida, 11 a.m., SEC Network; South Carolina at Tennessee, 11 a.m., ESPN2; Georgia at Auburn, 2:30 p.m., CBS; North Texas at Missouri, 3 p.m., SEC Network; LSU at Kentucky, 6:30 p.m., SEC Network; Alabama at Texas A&M, 7 p.m., CBS.

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Guilbeau joined OutKick as an SEC columnist in September of 2021 after covering LSU and the Saints for 17 years at USA TODAY Louisiana. He has been a national columnist/feature writer since the summer of 2022, covering college football, basketball and baseball with some NFL, NBA, MLB, TV and Movies and general assignment, including hot dog taste tests. A New Orleans native and Mizzou graduate, he has consistently won Associated Press Sports Editors (APSE) and Football Writers Association of America (FWAA) awards since covering Alabama and Auburn at the Mobile Press-Register (1993-98) and LSU and the Saints at the Baton Rouge Advocate (1998-2004). In 2021, Guilbeau won an FWAA 1st for a game feature, placed in APSE Beat Writing, Breaking News and Explanatory, and won Beat Writer of the Year from the Louisiana Sports Writers Association (LSWA). He won an FWAA columnist 1st in 2017 and was FWAA's top overall winner in 2016 with 1st in game story, 2nd in columns, and features honorable mention. Guilbeau completed a book in 2022 about LSU's five-time national champion coach - "Everything Matters In Baseball: The Skip Bertman Story" - that is available at www.acadianhouse.com, Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble outlets. He lives in Baton Rouge with his wife, the former Michelle Millhollon of Thibodaux who previously covered politics for the Baton Rouge Advocate and is a communications director.