The Southeastern Conference announced today that Saturday’s game between Arkansas and Georgia in Reynolds Razorback Stadium will be televised by ESPN. Kickoff is scheduled for 6:45 p.m.

  ESPN’s Brad Nessler will handle the play-by-play duties, Todd Blackledge will do the color commentating, and Erin Andrews will be the sideline reporter.

Arkansas coach John Pelphrey recently talked to ESPN’s Andy Katz about the off-the-court situations going on with his team. You can read the story here. Katz wrote a small story about the conversation he had with Arkansas’ third-year coach and posted it on his ESPN blog.

Pelphrey told Katz that all the news going on with Arkansas’ basketball program is a “… very, very unfortunate situation” and that coaches within the program are doing a lot of “damage control.”

“There was a lot of damage control, communicating to a lot of people about the information,” Pelphrey said. “It’s been a very, very unfortunate situation. We’re trying to get to a number of spots (in recruiting) and we’re trying to communicate.”

Pelphrey also told Katz that since the legal process has been completed, coaches and other administrators will look into the situation about yesterday’s story and see if any university rules or team policies were broken.

Pelphrey was scheduled to participate in Thursday’s Pro-Am of the P&G Beauty NW Arkansas Championship, but withdrew at the last minute.

Stay tuned as we find out more information and reaction to everything going on with this story.

  OK, now that I’ve gotten some sleep and a cup of coffee, I’m ready for the SEC Media Days to start in an hour or so. Apparently, I’m not the only one.

  Radio Row in the hallway of the Wynfrey Hotel is filled with sports talk radio hosts discussing anything and everything SEC related. ESPN’s college football crew has arrived. And the media guides for all 12 SEC schools have been passed out to the reporters in attendance.

  SEC commissioner Mike Slive will be the first person to take the microphone today, and there’s no doubt that the bulk of his talk with the media will center around the SEC’s new 15-year TV deal with ESPN that reportedly came at a $2.2 billion price tag.

  The TV deal goes into effect next month and will give the league a lot more national exposure.

  ESPN has announced its TV schedule for the first three weeks of the college football season. Arkansas’ Sept. 5 season opener against Missouri State will be shown on ESPN360.com and ESPN GamePlan.

  As we’ve known for a few weeks, ESPN or ESPN2 will broadcast Arkansas’ Sept. 19 game against Georgia in Reynolds Razorback Stadium.