DESTIN, Fla. -- Tennessee's football season opener at Neyland Stadium against California on Sept. 2 is set for a late afternoon kickoff on ESPN, possibly at 5:30 p.m.

Tennessee's game at Memphis on Sept. 30 is set for ESPN or ESPN2. Fox Sports Net may pick up the Sept. 9 home game against Air Force.

UT's Sept. 16 showdown against Florida in Knoxville is set for an 8 p.m. start on CBS.

In Line With NCAA: The SEC has agreed to fall in line with the new NCAA rule that states an athlete with a bachelor's degree who has remaining academic eligibility may transfer elsewhere for graduate school and be eligible immediately.

It amends the previous SEC rule that stated the league would accept athletes who graduated in three years from another college with two years remaining eligibility.

Money, Money, Money: SEC revenue sharing reached $116.1 million for the 2005-06 fiscal year that ends Aug. 31. It's the highest total ever distributed by the league, and it represents a 4.4 percent increase from the $110.7 million distributed to league schools last season.

Not included in the $116.1 million was $7.3 million retained by schools that played in bowl games and $696,000 divided among all institutions for academic enhancement.

The $116 million came from $47.4 million from football television, $20.7 million from bowls, $13.2 million from the SEC football championship game, $12.1 million from basketball television, $4.4 million from the SEC men's basketball tournament and $18.3 million from the NCAA champion.

More TV: ESPN has approached Ole Miss about moving its season opener against Memphis to Sunday Sept. 3 with a kickoff sometime in the afternoon.

Ole Miss athletic director Pete Boone confirmed Friday on the final day of the SEC spring business meetings that the network asked if he was interested in playing the game on that date. The game is currently scheduled for Sept. 2 in Oxford, Miss., with no kickoff time set.

"I haven't talked with our Chancellor (Robert Khayat) about it or (Memphis athletic director) R.C. Johnson," Boone said. "It seems like it would be pretty good deal for exposure for our team. I think our coach would like to do that.

Johnson, reached by phone on vacation, said he'd love to play the game on Sunday.

"I talked with Pete a few weeks ago about possibly playing the game on Labor Day," Johnson said. "But this is the first I've heard of playing the game on Sunday. That would be great.

The Tigers play at home on Sept. 9 against Chattanooga, while Ole Miss travels to Missouri.

If the Rebels and Tigers don't play on Sunday, there's a chance that they could be the 12:30 a.m. Saturday game on the Lincoln Financial (formerly Jefferson Pilot) game-of-the-week.

Everything hinges on what ESPN will do that weekend. Besides considering Memphis-Ole Miss as a possible choice, the network is looking at Southern Miss at Florida and Hawaii at Alabama.

Florida athletic director Jeremy Foley said on Friday that he has already told ESPN he won't move his season opener, saying, "If we had an open date the next week we might have done it, but we have to play Central Florida."

Alabama athletic director Mal Moore was not available for comment on Friday. But Alabama probably won't want to move its Hawaii game to Sunday, because the Crimson Tide open SEC play the following Saturday against Vanderbilt.

Mississippi State's SEC opener in Starkville against Auburn on Sept. 9 is a prime candidate for a Lincoln Financial 12:30 a.m. game. The following week on Sept. 16, Ole Miss at Kentucky, or Arkansas at Vanderbilt are the leading possibilities for the LF game.