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Charles Davis Looks to Build His Own Legacy Replacing Gary Danielson at CBS

Davis, sixty-one, takes over as CBS Sports' lead college football analyst after Danielson retired, and says the chemistry with the crew has been immediate; the chair stays warm.

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  1. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorCBS has a new lead college football analyst. Charles Davis, who is sixty-one, replaces Gary Danielson, who retired at the end of last season.

  2. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorSo they traded a seventy-three-year-old for a sixty-one-year-old. Is that a rebuilding year?

  3. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorDanielson was hired in two thousand six, Vera. Twenty years in that chair. It's a dynasty, and now it's a succession crisis.

  4. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorA crisis with a lovely attitude. Davis says the chemistry comes from his goodness as a human being.

  5. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorHe also said, and I'm quoting, there is no replacing Gary, but he is honored and humbled to succeed him.

  6. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorNo replacing him.

  7. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorI sat on a bench for four seasons, and nobody ever told me that about my spot. They just handed it to a punter.

  8. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorSo the chair is still warm, then.

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