SEC TV For Oct. 1 Set: Bama At Arkansas, Kentucky at Ole Miss Highlight Schedule

A pair of potential top 15 pairings highlight the Southeastern Conference's television football schedule for Saturday Oct. 1, the SEC announced on Monday.

Alabama, currently No. 2 and 3-0 on the season, will be at Arkansas, currently No. 10 and also 3-0, at 3:30 p.m. eastern on CBS. The Crimson Tide hosts Vanderbilt (3-1) this Saturday at 7:30 p.m. on the SEC Network, while Arkansas plays No. 23 Texas A&M (2-1) at 7 p.m. on ESPN in Arlington, Texas.

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In the other ranked pairing, as far as current rankings, on Oct. 1, No. 8 Kentucky will be at No. 16 Ole Miss at noon on ESPN. The Wildcats (3-0) host Northern Illinois (1-2) this Saturday at 7 p.m. on ESPN2. Ole Miss (3-0) hosts Tulsa (2-1) at 4 p.m. on the SEC Network this Saturday.

Other Oct. 1 games are as follows:

-South Carolina State at South Carolina, noon, SEC Network

-Eastern Washington at No. 20 Florida, noon, ESPN+, SEC Network+

-No. 23 Texas A&M at Mississippi State, 4 p.m., SEC Network

-LSU at Auburn, 7 p.m., ESPN

-No. 1 Georgia at Missouri, 7:30 p.m., SEC Network

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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.