Countdown to Signing Day is Back!

CTSD's 16th Season Debut Show Welcomes QB Mario Fannin In Studio, Checks Out Nation's No. 3 QB, Looks in on Impact College Freshmen, and much more.

COUNTDOWN TO SIGNING DAY, FSN South's longest running series, begins its 16th season on Wednesday, 10/5 at 6:30 p.m. (re-airs Friday, 10/7 at 7 p.m.). Host Cory Kessler and analysts Jamie Newberg and Scott Kennedy welcome football recruiting enthusiasts to the live, one-hour show - the network's longest-running series. Newberg and Kennedy are the national and southeast recruiting advisors, respectively, for Scout.com. CTSD's second half-hour (10/5) does not air in TN and KY, nor in the northern one-fourth each of AL and MS.

Wednesday, 10/5 at 6:30 p.m. ET; re-airs Friday, 10/7 at 7 p.m.

Joining the show as an in-studio guest is quarterback Mario Fannin (6-0, 210) from Jonesboro, Ga. (Lovejoy High School), who has committed to Auburn, but is expected to visit Florida and Tennessee as well. Fannin, who is expected to move to running back or safety in college, threw for 2,000 yards and 30 touchdowns last season.

On Wednesday's show, the CTSD crew examines the credentials of quarterback Tim Tebow (6-3, 225) from Nease High School in St. Augustine, Fla., whose list of schools includes Florida State, Florida, Alabama, Clemson and Miami. Rated the nation's third-best signal caller, Tebow last season threw for a state-record 4,286 yards and 46 touchdowns, while rushing for 1,266 yards and 24 scores.

The show's look back at how current impact freshmen were spotlighted on CTSD last year is paced by such rookie standouts as Penn State wide receiver Derrick Williams, South Carolina wide receiver Sidney Rice, and Clemson running back James Davis. Williams (6-0, 191), a first-team CTSD All-South player from Greenbelt, Md. (Eleanor Roosevelt HS), has already been a big playmaker for the No. 18 Nittany Lions. Rice (6-4, 191), second among Carolina receivers with 18 catches for 298 yards and three TDs, prepped at Gaffney (S.C.) HS. Davis (5-11, 210) is CU's leading rusher (32 carries, 290 yards), after playing at Atlanta's Douglass HS.

Wednesday's roundtable discussion centers on whether offensive line is the South's deepest position, whether a stable of premium running backs will again arise, and why the states of Alabama and Mississippi are so stockpiled with talent this season. And, COUNTDOWN looks at offensive lineman Andre Smith (6-4, 315) of Birmingham, Ala. (Huffman HS), the South's top-rated player. Smith was name the most outstanding player at the U.S Army All-American combine last January.

CTSD originates from FSN South's Atlanta studio and airs throughout AL, GA, KY, MS, NC, SC and TN, on the nation's largest regional sports television network. Also, exclusively throughout the state of Florida, CTSD airs live on Sun Sports, and in AR and LA, the show airs on FSN Southwest.