Hopefully the previous comment didn’t come off as too snarky. I live near Duke and was tickled to see Duke’s coach Kryzewski referred to as a gym teacher 
Oh, is that all? They must not be for very well-liked teams.
I believe 60 Minutes is (or at least, was) scheduled to start at 8 instead of 7 when there’s an afternoon NFL game on CBS, giving them plenty of time for the game to finish and do a post-game show even. That’s less likely for more one-off events though.
It was a big problem with Sunday night shows like Futurama. It was supposed to be on at 7PM but often wasn’t shown at all because of sports running late. And then they wondered why it got low ratings.
I’m pretty sure Fox has a show called something like ‘OT’ scheduled for 30 minutes after the scheduled end time of the late Sunday game, which they use to buffer late/OT games.
CBS should try that.
The only way to watch CBS on Sunday nights (at least in the Eastern and Central timezones) is to tell your DVR to pad the show you want by an extra hour. Or, if your DVR doesn’t have that option, to also record the next show after the one you want to watch.
This has always been a problem with CBS. They just won’t schedule their Sundays accurately. They probably enjoy a bump in the ratings from people who tune in and watch an extra hour waiting for the show they want to come on.
Is the game still on?
They’re not going to start NFL games 30 minutes earlier because the only time it is a national problem is when it is a CBS doubleheader day, and CBS (and Fox) asked the NFL to delay the start of the “late” games until 4:25 so there would be very little overlap with the ends of the games that started at 1:00. Having the league move games back to 3:30 means west coast games start at 12:30 Pacific, which is pushing things with familes going to church and then the game.
How much of that is overlap from the basketball? The Simpsons, for example, always gets much better ratings when it immediately follows NFL coverage.
At first, when the second games of doubleheaders started at 4:00, they tended to end around 7:15, so people out east would get only the second half of an episode. Fox asked that late games be moved to a 4:15 start, and stopped airing new Futurama episodes on its doubleheader days (the west coast got repeats from early seasons). After one of too many episodes of King of the Hill, scheduled for 7:30, were joined in progress or even pre-empted because of long-running NFL coverage (ever hear the story of the Thanksgiving episode that got shelved for an entire year because of this?), Fox threw in the towel and padded its postgame show until 8:00 on its doubleheader days.
I think it doesn’t because (a) it doesn’t want 60 Minutes to start at 7:00 on some weeks and 8:00 on others, and (b) it would mean one of its other Sunday shows wouldn’t air nine times during the fall. Fox can get away with it with Bob’s Burgers, but it causes problems with a “serialized” show like Madame Secretary.