The Southeastern Conference office, on Monday, chose the non-conference football test with the University of Missouri Tigers and Boston College Eagles for an 11 o’clock CT kickoff on ESPN2, with the game being held on the BC campus in suburban Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Boston College is a member of the Power 5 Atlantic Coast Conference, with the meeting on Saturday, September 25th representing the first ever between the two programs.
The game will be carried locally on KTTN FM 92.3 and the state-wide Tiger Radio Network, with pregame at 9 o’clock, as Mike Kelly, Howard Richards, and Chris Gervino provide the call.
Other SEC games on September 25th will include, in the 11 o’clock kickoff window, Georgia at Vanderbilt on the SEC Network, with LSU and Mississippi State on ESPN. The CBS “SEC Game of the Week” will be held at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, where Texas A&M plays Arkansas in a Top-20 duel of SEC West rivals.
At 3 o’clock, Auburn hosts Georgia State on the SEC Network, with the other three games slated for action under the lights, as Florida hosts Tennessee at 6 o’clock on ESPN, with Kentucky at South Carolina at 6 on ESPN2, while Alabama goes out of conference play to host Southern Miss at 6:30 on the SEC Network.
In other SEC football news items from Monday, Texas A&M announced that starting quarterback Haynes King is out indefinitely, after sustaining a broken tibia in Saturday’s win over Colorado. Surgery on Monday to repair the fracture went well, according to Coach Jimbo Fisher. With King out, Zach Calzada becomes the Aggies’ starter when A&M hosts New Mexico on Saturday, September 18th.
Meanwhile, LSU is losing former five-star recruit, running back John Emery Jr., to academic issues. Emery, now a junior, was expected to compete for the starting running back position in Baton Rouge this year.
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