Sports Shows to watch/listen to

I'm curious to hear some of the RBR faithful's opinions on various sports shows, whether they be television, radio, or podcasts.  I'll go over some of the ones I watch and let you know what I think about them.  Of course the Paul Finebaum show dominates the headlines in Alabama and now has gone national on Sirius.  Personally I like it, listen to it a good deal, and call in every now and then.  Love it or hate it, most people here know about it and already have their opinion of the show, so moving along...

Perhaps the most prominent show revolving around college football is College Football Live from the "Worldwide Leader".  I've watched this show for years, and it was pretty good this summer with all of the expansion and other news.  But during this season it's been boring.  I wonder if it's just that I'm getting the news from other sources such as SBN, yahoo, etc. so that the content on CFL is old hat by the time I watch it.  Then again, it may be that Palmer, Smith, and company aren't as engaging as some of the previous hosts.  Regardless, I'm seriously considering dropping this from my DVR. 

The other major ESPN college football show is "The Experts".  It's new, loooong, and surprisingly good.  They have a lot of personalities and "experts" sitting around for 3 hours talking about college football.  The format allows them to go into issues with much more depth than you see on similar shows.  However, the 3 hour duration and afternoon time slot means that you pretty much have to have a DVR to watch it, but if you have one you can watch it piecemeal during the week for some good entertainment.

Over on Comcast Sports South there is a pretty good show called Talkin' Football.  The show focuses on the SEC predominantly, but they also discuss the ACC.  Tony Barnheart and Mark Shlabach are the most well known of the hosts, but the other guys aren't too bad.  Episodes are bi-weekly with a thursday preview show and a sunday post-game show.  The great thing about the sunday show is that it fills in a major gap in college football coverage.  I like the NFL alright, but it dominates the airwaves on Sunday and I'm still wanting to hear about Bama kicking ass, all the upsets of the week, discussion of polls, etc.  It would be great if the show was on a little earlier sunday, but it's still must-watch TV IMO.

Speaking of the lack of Sunday shows, there is a radio show called In the Trenches with Robert Shultz (former Bama player).  It comes on from 4-6, and it used to have that Auburn shill Stan White, but I guess White flew the coop and they have some other goober to co-host.  When I've had the chance to hear it, it's been okay.  The problem is that I rarely have a radio with me on sunday and I can't find a good stream of it.  Oh well! 

There's an SEC show on some channel (can't think of it right now) called SEC Gridiron Live with Charles Davis.  Davis used to be on the NFL network.  He's a pretty good commentator despite being a UT alum.  I haven't been watching this show for some reason, but I might start checking it out to see if it's really any good. 

And finally I'll give a passing mention to Ivan Maisel's podcast on espn.com's college football page.  If you're bored and need something to listen to, it will help pass the time.  Well, that's about it for me.  Hopefully some people will find something here to help fulfill their appetite for college football discussion that they were missing out on, or maybe someone will let me know about a good show that I'm missing.