Just like that, the college football regular season has come to a close, and the focus for FBS fans now shifts to the penultimate point of the overall season: conference championship weekend.

While all of the Power 5 conferences will be crowning champions, the eyes of the college football world will be on Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta as Georgia meets Alabama in the SEC title game. SEC Network recognizes that and has dedicated the 72 hours prior to kickoff, and immediately after the game also, to programming focused on the Bulldogs and Crimson Tide colliding for a berth in the 2021 College Football Playoff.

On Monday, ESPN announced its full slate of shows that will lead up to the game on Saturday afternoon. As expected, all the SEC Network staples will be live and on-location in Atlanta.

It all begins on Thursday, Dec. 2 at 1:30 p.m. with the SEC championship press conference hosted by Dari Nowkhah. Viewers will hear from Alabama head coach Nick Saban, Georgia head coach Kirby Smart and SEC commissioner Greg Sankey. Paul Finebaum will go on the air with The Paul Finebaum Show starting at 3 p.m.

Check out the full weekend schedule below:

Thursday, Dec. 2

• SEC Now: SEC Championship Coaches Press Conferences, 1:30 p.m.
• The Paul Finebaum Show, 3 p.m.

Friday, Dec. 3

• SEC This Morning, 8 a.m., on location at the Georgia World Congress Center (GWCC)
• The Paul Finebaum Show, 3 p.m., on location at the GWCC
• SEC Now: The Championship Coaches, 7 p.m., on location at Mercedes-Benz Stadium (MBS)
• SEC Now, 7:30 p.m., on location at MBS

Saturday, Dec. 4

• Thinking Out of Pocket, noon, on location at the GWCC
• Marty & McGee, 1 p.m., on location at the GWCC
• SEC Nation, 2 p.m., on location at the GWCC and MBS
• SEC Football Final, 7:30 p.m., on location at MBS

In addition to the usual lineup of hosts for these shows, fans tuning in can expect special guest appearances as well from country music star Chris Young, to comedian Jeff Foxworthy and Tony Barnhart.

The 2021 SEC championship game will kick off at 4 p.m. on Saturday. You can watch the game on CBS.

Some people in the media watch ESPN’s subscriber numbers like a hawk and report them without real context. In 2021, the people that cheer whenever there is news about ESPN having fewer subscribers than it used to will tell you that the network is in 8 million fewer homes at the end of the last fiscal year than it was in at the end of fiscal 2020. There is some context that is missing though.

Linear cable isn’t an a la cart service. So, if ESPN is in 8 million fewer homes at the end of 2021, then that means FOX News, Bravo, Nickelodeon and every other cable network is in 8 million fewer homes too. Also missing is the fact that while linear ESPN is losing subscribers, plenty of people are signing up for ESPN+ subscriptions.

At the end of fiscal 2021, ESPN Plus had more than 17 million subscribers. That is significant growth over fiscal 2020. ESPN Plus had 10.3 million subscribers at the end of the prior year.

ESPN’s traditional cable network and its sister channels net around $10 per subscriber for Disney each month through packages on cable, satellite and digital TV. At $6.99 per month, ESPN Plus is not a perfect replacement, but that is a direct payment to the company.

Rumors of Disney looking to divest from ESPN have persisted. A drop in linear cable distribution will do nothing to end that speculation. We may be in for an extended session of number watching though. If cable subscriptions keep dropping off at such a high rate, it could motivate Disney to make a move.

ESPN has announced their schedule for the upcoming Conference Championship games happening this weekend.

College football’s regular season across ABC and ESPN networks will conclude with seven conference championship games December 3-4, including the ACC, American, Big 12, MAC, Pac-12, Sun Belt and SWAC.

Conference championship action kicks off Friday, Dec. 3, with the Pac-12 Championship Game from Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas for a matchup between Oregon and Utah. Chris Fowler, Kirk Herbstreit and Holly Rowe are on the TV call, and Roxy Bernstein and Max Starks are announcing the action on ESPN Radio.

Championship Saturday kicks off with a matchup between Baylor and Oklahoma State at noon with Sean McDonough, Todd Blackledge and Molly McGrath on ABC, and Sean Kelley, Barrett Jones and Ian Fitzsimmons commentating on ESPN Radio.

Also at noon is the Rocket Mortgage MAC Championship Game, live from Ford Field in Detroit. Jason Benetti, Andre Ware and Paul Carcaterra will call the action on ESPN featuring Kent State and Northern Illinois.

At 3:30 p.m., the Sun Belt Conference Championship Game will commence on ESPN with Dave Pasch, Dusty Dvoracek and Tom Luginbill calling the Appalachian State/Louisiana contest.

At 4 p.m., the American Athletic Championship Game will kick off on ABC, featuring Joe Tessitore, Greg McElroy and Katie George providing commentary on the Houston versus Cincinnati showdown.

On ESPN2 at 4 p.m., Tiffany Greene, Jay Walker and Tiffany Blackmon will call the SWAC Championship Game between Prairie View A&M facing Jackson State.

The primetime game for the network will take place for the ACC championship between Pittsburgh and Wake Forest. Mark Jones, Robert Griffin III and Quint Kessenich will call the TV action, with Marc Kestecher, Ben Hartsock and Kelsey Riggs on the radio call.

Following Champ Week will be the College Football Playoff Selection Day, which will take place December 5th, with more details of the show coming later this week.