SEC Nation coming to Columbia for South Carolina-Georgia

South Carolina football’s Sept. 8 tilt against the Georgia Bulldogs promises to be one of the best of week 2 of the college football season.

The SEC and SEC Network seem to be recognizing that.

The network announced its preview show SEC Nation will be in Columbia that week. The preview show last came in 2017 before the USC-Clemson game.

USC hosted the first SEC Nation before the 2014 Texas A&M game. South Carolina has hosted three times and gone 0-3 in those games.

The show’s hosts include Laura Rutledge, Tim Tebow and Paul Finebaum.

According to a school release:

The SEC Network’s traveling pregame show, SEC Nation Presented by Pilot Flying J, announced on The Paul Finebaum Show Friday that it will head to Columbia, S.C. next Saturday, September 8 for the showdown between SEC East rivals South Carolina and #3 Georgia.



Airing live from 10 a.m. – Noon ET from Gamecock Park, the show will delve into the storylines of Southeastern Conference football, the weekend’s biggest matchups and more before the Gamecocks and third-ranked Bulldogs battle at Williams-Brice Stadium at 3:30 p.m. This is the first SEC matchup of the 2018 season.



SEC Nation includes live reports, analysis and features surrounding the world of SEC football, as well as special appearances from hometown favorites throughout the season. Laura Rutledge hosts the traveling pregame show, navigating the Saturday morning conversations with analysts Tim Tebow, Marcus Spears and Paul Finebaum, along with reporter Lauren Sisler.



Each show includes live reports, analysis and features surrounding the sights, sounds and storylines of SEC football, and will showcase the new SEC Nation demo field that debuted at the show’s SEC Media Days stop in July. Also new for 2018 is the weekly series “Nation Shorts,” from the creators of SEC Shorts.

This story was originally published August 31, 2018 at 4:18 PM.