There are a lot of gimmicks on blogs that just never pan out, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say that this one will. The website Mr.SEC has matched the fact that Erin Andrews drives page views, with the fact that there's no photo collections on the Internet, to give you every EA picture that you can think of in one place. To the tune of 750 images!

Over the past few months, we here at MrSEC.com noticed something: whenever we made any kind of mention of ESPN sideline hottie Erin Andrews, our pageviews went through the roof.

Being red-blooded American males, we started scanning the web for a full-blown Erin Andrews site. There wasn’t one… not of major size anyway.

Our conclusions:

1. Erin Andrews draws readers.
2. There was no massive Erin Andrews site on the web.

That may seem to lead to a simple decision, but there was a lot of internal debate.

“We can’t make an Erin Andrews shrine. This is a sports site.”

“Oh, yeah, well ESPN uses her and they’re all sports.”

“But this is about SEC sports.”

“Oh, yeah, well she went to Florida.”

Pretty genius if you ask me. They really don't have to do anything more, and over time they'll probably be bumped to the front of the line on Google. I'm personally EA'ed out these days, but if you have the time, check out the photos through the link below.

What's New? Hmmm. How 'Bout 750 Erin Andrews Photos? (Mr. SEC)
Erin Andrews (Mr. SEC)

The last couple of weeks have been pretty predictable in where College Gameday was heading, and this week will be no different. Even though the SEC Championship game is on CBS, ESPN will be sending Gameday to Atlanta for the Alabama-Florida game this Saturday. The networks have also released their announcing teams a bit early, so I thought I'd put those up as well. Only one more weekend to decide the regular season Pammies (this week's nominees will be up in a few)!

Thursday, Dec. 4th

Louisville at Rutgers (ESPN, 7:30pm)- Chris Fowler, Craig James, Jesse Palmer and Erin Andrews

Friday, Dec. 5th

MAC Championship: #12 Ball State vs. Buffalo (ESPN2, 7:55pm)- Sean McDonough, Chris Spielman and Rob Stone

Saturday, Dec. 6th

Navy at Army (CBS, Noon)- Ian Eagle, Boomer Esiason, Sam Ryan
#23 Pittsburgh at Connecticut (ESPN, Noon)- Bob Wischusen and Brock Huard
Conference USA Championship: East Carolina at Tulsa (ESPN2, Noon)- Dave Pasch and Andre Ware
NCAA Division II Semifinals: Minnesota Duluth at California-PA (ESPN Classic, Noon)- Eric Collins and Jon Ritchie
ACC Championship: #17 Boston College vs. #25 Virginia Tech (ABC, 1pm)- Brad Nessler, Bob Griese, Paul Maguire and Stacey Dales
Washington at California (FSN, 3pm)- Barry Tompkins, Petros Papadakis, Jim Watson
NCAA Division II Semifinals: North Alabama at NW Missouri State (ESPN2, 4pm)- Pam Ward and Ray Bentley
SEC Championship: #1 Alabama at #4 Florida (CBS, 4pm)- Verne Lundquist, Gary Danielson, Tracy Wolfson
#5 USC at UCLA (ABC, 4:30pm)- Mike Patrick, Todd Blackledge and Holly Rowe
Big 12 Championship: #20 Missouri vs. #2 Oklahoma (ABC, 8pm)- Brent Musburger, Kirk Herbstreit and Lisa Salters
Arizona State at Arizona (ESPN, 8pm)- Mark Jones and Bob Davie
South Florida at West Virginia (ESPN2, 8pm)- Ron Franklin, Ed Cunningham and Jack Arute
#13 Cincinnati at Hawaii (ESPN2, 11:30pm)- Joe Tessitore and Rod Gilmore

You people said I was crazy for thinking that ESPN would take Gameday to Vandy for week six, and that OSU-Wisconsin was a virtual lock, but that's exactly where the College Football pregame show will be next weekend. Vanderbilt University has confirmed that Gameday will be in Nashville (for the first time in the show's history) this Saturday for the Commodores' showdown with Auburn. Via VUCommodores.com....

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Count ESPN's College GameDay crew - yes, Chris Fowler, Lee Corso, Kirk Herbstreit and Desmond Howard - among the audience for Vanderbilt's nationally televised meeting with Southeastern Conference Western Division power Auburn this Saturday on campus.

ESPN officials confirmed Sunday morning that its popular "College GameDay Built by the Home Depot" show will broadcast from the Vanderbilt campus on Saturday, October 4. It will mark College GameDay's first appearance in Nashville.

Vanderbilt officials were pleased with news of College GameDay's announcement.

"This is tremendous for our university, Coach (Bobby) Johnson's program and this great city," Vanderbilt Vice Chancellor for Student Athletics and University Affairs David Williams II said. "ESPN's decision to bring College GameDay to Vanderbilt speaks volumes about the outstanding job Bobby Johnson had done during his tenure and the student-athletes he has attracted into our football program. We're extremely pleased and excited about this announcement."

In all honesty, after reading through everyone's comments about the OSU-Wisconsin game, I too thought they'd be heading up north. No dice though. The funny thing is that there's only really one possible game where they would travel above Route 70 all season and that's PSU-OSU in week nine. Other than that it's going to be back and forth between the SEC and Big XII for the rest of the year.

ESPN's College GameDay coming to Vanderbilt (VU Commodores)

ESPN moved Gameday from Arizona State to Auburn this past weekend and don't be surprised if ESPN sets up "Gameday" shop in the South for most of the season. The conference currently has six teams in the Top 25 and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution now says that ESPN is going back into the state of Georgia for Week Five....

ESPN’s popular College GameDay show will air from Athens on Saturday morning, an ESPN spokesman said today.

The two-hour college-football pregame show — with host Chris Fowler and analysts Lee Corso, Kirk Herbstreit and Desmond Howard — travels around the country, giving a sort of signature to each week’s Big Game.

And Georgia-Alabama in Sanford Stadium on Saturday is big.

Both teams are unbeaten (4-0), and both are ranked in the nation’s top 10.

Georgia, which defeated Arizona State 27-10 Saturday night, is No. 3 in both the Associated Press media poll and the USA Today coaches’ poll. Alabama, which beat Arkansas 49-14 Saturday, is No. 8 in the AP poll and No. 10 in the coaches’ poll.

ESPN spokesman Michael Humes said Sunday afternoon that details aren’t available yet about where on the Georgia campus the GameDay set will be located. There are some logistical issues to be worked out. ESPN likes to have the stadium as the backdrop for its set. But ongoing building construction around Sanford Stadium makes that almost out of the question.

I understand that the SEC is the cream of the crop, but let's vary it up some shall we? Four of the Five destinations for the show so far have involved SEC teams and if you look ahead to week six and seven, there's really only two matchups worth highlighting and one of those is Auburn at Vandy. With LSU-Florida in week seven, ESPN might as well set up shop in the South until the Missouri-Texas game during week eight.

‘GameDay’ picks UGA-Bama (AJC)

The conference signed a mega deal with CBS about two weeks ago, which virtually killed the idea of an all SEC network, but today the SEC TV dream has officially ended. There was still a slight chance though seeing as ESPN hadn't yet signed a contract of their own and in turn getting CBS' "leftovers", but yesterday the "Leader" inked a 15-year deal of their own. Thus ending an all SEC TV discussions....

The Southeastern Conference already has a new 15-year CBS contract in hand, and this week the league will announce a similar 15-year deal with ESPN (and its family of networks) to televise everything that CBS doesn't. Because of the maximum exposure provided by both networks, the SEC athletic directors decided this past week in Orlando that there won't be an SEC network. The ultimate conclusion was that each school has its own pay-per-view and re-telecast agreements, and that web was not worth untangling, especially after CBS and now ESPN has backed up the Brinks armored car to the SEC vault.

So there you have it. The SEC is in the hands of CBS and ESPN until the year 2023 and if you're a College Football fan, this isn't a bad thing at all. The games from arguably the best conference in the country will all be readily available to most, if not everyone and Verne Lundquist will be calling games until he's 94 years old. Good times.

Oh and does anyone want to know the grand total of the contract? A cool $2.25 billion. The deal should be announced by ESPN later this afternoon.

SEC drops idea to start own TV network; deal set with ESPN (Commercial Appeal)

Television deals rarely even get over a handful of years, let alone ten. That's why it came as a such a surprise that CBS and the SEC agreed to such a long one today. The two sides inked an uncommon 15-year deal to keep their current arrangement going when the deal runs out in 2008. Via the AJC....

In an unprecedented deal between a national network and a college athletic conference, the SEC and CBS on Thursday announced that they have agreed to a 15-year contract extension to televise that league’s football and men’s basketball games. Financial details of the deal were not released.

The current contract between the SEC and CBS was scheduled to end after the 2008 season. The two parties have been negotiating for the entire year.

“This is a great day for CBS,” said Mike Aresco, the Vice President for programming at CBS. “The SEC is the gold standard for college athletics. It has been a great conference for 76 years and that will never change. We love the enthusiasm and the way the fans support the game.”

Aresco said that CBS and the SEC talked about several different options when it came to the length of this contract.

“But at the end of the day the comfort level is so great and the trust is so great that we decided to lock this in for the long haul,” Aresco said. “This is a great deal for both sides.”

That's a heck of a long time, and I don't think there's been a contract this long in the history of College Sports. With this news it also seems highly unlikely that the SEC would still be considering a network of their own, but it's not entirely out of the question.

SEC signs landmark TV deal with CBS (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

The Big Ten Network was somewhat of a disappointment considering the giant mess between the channel and Comcast. Hopefully the SEC can do a better job. According to Conference Commissioner Mike Slive, the decision is likely to come this fall....

Southeastern Conference Commissioner Mike Slive says the league will make a decision on its television and multimedia rights this fall.

The TV deals with CBS, ESPN, Raycom Sports and FSN South run out at the end of the academic year.

Slive said at SEC football media days Wednesday that the options include an SEC Network similar to the ones started by the Mountain West and Big Ten conferences and the NFL.

Slive said criteria the league is considering include the ability to provide national exposure and to air events for other sports besides football and basketball.

I understand the idea of your own network on the surface, but the SEC doesn't really need help in exposing itself. Basically every single game is on TV and the CBS deal already gives them their own channel basically. If it's more money that's one thing, but they certainly won't get anywhere near the same exposure.

Slive says SEC will decide on television plans this fall (SI)

ESPN gave us the first look at their early CFB games this afternoon with its release of the early ACC and SEC schedules. Obviously there are no announcers yet, but I figured you all could start marking some dates down.

Thu., Aug. 28

7 p.m.- Vanderbilt at Miami (Ohio) (ESPNU)
8 p.m.- N.C. State at South Carolina (ESPN)

Sat., Aug. 30

3:30 p.m.- USC at Virginia (ABC)
3:45 p.m.- Delaware at Maryland (ESPNU)
5 p.m.- Appalachian State at LSU (ESPN)
6:45 p.m.- Mississippi State at Louisiana Tech (ESPN2)
8 p.m.- Alabama vs. Clemson (ABC, From Atlanta)

Sun., Aug. 31

3:30 p.m.- Kentucky at Louisville (ESPN)

Mon., Sept. 1

8 p.m.- Tennessee at UCLA (ESPN)

Thu., Sept. 4

8:30 p.m.- South Carolina at Vandy (ESPN)

Sat., Sept. 6
3:30 p.m.- Mississippi at Wake Forest (ABC)
3:45 p.m.- Richmond at Virginia (ESPNU)
8 p.m.- Miami at Florida (ESPN)

Sat., Sept. 13

Noon- California at Maryland (ESPN or ESPN2)
Noon- Navy at Duke (ESPNU)
3:30 p.m.- Arkansas at Texas (ABC)
3:30 p.m.- Georgia Tech at Virginia Tech (ABC)
3:45 p.m.- Chattanooga at Florida State (ESPNU)
7 p.m.- Auburn at Mississippi State (ESPN2)

Sat., Sept. 20

8 p.m.- Georgia at Arizona State (ABC)

Thu., Oct. 23

7:30 p.m.- Auburn at West Virginia (ESPN)

There are some great games in there and ESPN continues to show why their College Football programming is probably the best thing they do as a network each year.

Update: Sorry about the asterisks. They just meant that the game was previously announced. Not really important at all.