Gary Danielson and Brad Nessler closed the book on CBS’s SEC football coverage at the close of the SEC Championship Game.

“Some roads have to end somewhere, and our road ends tonight,” Nessler, who took over for Verne Lundquist as the SEC on CBS’s play-by-play man in 2017, said.

Danielson, on color since 2006 first with Lundquist and then with Nessler, had a tip of the cap to outgoing CBS Sports chairman Sean McManus, who helmed the network’s initial deal with the SEC in 1996 prior to the conference becoming arguably the biggest in college football.

“I’m going to borrow a line here from another network … what we did was follow the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat,” Danielson said.

ESPN takes the SEC reins in full in 2024 as it will be the conference’s sole rightsholder. While it certainly isn’t ESPN’s 1st go — it owns the SEC Network, after all — an important chapter in college football history has come to an end.