Sep 1 Podcast #1114: Where to Watch College Football
This week is the start of the college football season and we help you find where your favorite team’s games can be watched. We also read your emails and take a look at the week’s news.
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News:
- TCL Launches Branded Streaming Platform TCLtv+ With Interactive Tech
- Dolby Atmos will use your TV to expand living room speaker setups
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- Deal Alert! Get Half Off a Year of Paramount+ Just in Time For September’s NFL & College Football Games
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College Football - Where can you find it?
It's probably the best time of year. You have Baseball wrapping up, the air is cooling down, and it's college football season. There are so many games and leagues but where can you watch your favorite team? We have done the research and this is where you can find the leagues and games for free.
Conference Networks
Many conferences have their own 24/7 network that carry more than just football. But on Saturdays in the fall they are all about football! Here is where you will find four of the most popular conference networks
Pac - 12 - Spectrum, xfinity, Cox, dish, SlingTV, Frontier, Fubo, Vidgo Full List can be found here.
Big Ten - Fox Sports App with TV provider credentials. AT&T U-verse, Cox, DirecTV/DTV Stream, Dish, Frontier, Fubo, Google Fiber, Hulu Live, Filo, Sling, Virgo, Youtube TV
SEC - AT&T U-Verse. Cox. DIRECTV/Stream, DISH, Spectrum, Xfinity, Verizon Fios. Streaming on Hulu, Sling TV, YouTube TV
ACC - Youtube TV, Hulu, Spectrum, DIRECTV/Stream, Dish Network, Sling TV, Cox
Broadcast Networks
In addition to their own networks, the conferences have contracts with the broadcast networks to air the biggest games of the week.
ABC: ACC, American, Big 12, Pac-12, championship games (ACC, American, Big 12 and Pac-12 in odd-numbered years), Citrus Bowl, LA Bowl and Las Vegas Bowl
CBS: SEC, Big Ten, Mountain West, SEC Championship Game, Commander-in-Chief's Trophy games (include Army-Navy) and Sun Bowl
Fox: Big 12, Big Ten, Mountain West, Pac-12, championship games (Big Ten, Mountain West, and
Pac-12 in even-numbered years) and Holiday Bowl
NBC: Notre Dame, Big Ten
The CW: ACC
Cable Networks
The cable networks get in on the action as well!
CBS Sports Network: Army, C-USA, MAC, Mountain West, Navy, UConn, C-USA Championship Game and Hula Bowl
ESPN networks (ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPNews, ESPN3 and ESPN+): ACC, American, Big 12, Big Ten, C-USA, MAC, Pac-12, SEC, Sun Belt, UMass, championship games (MAC and Sun Belt) and most bowl games including the entirety of the College Football Playoff
Fox Sports 1: Big 12, Big Ten, Mountain West and Pac-12
Fox Sports 2: Mountain West
Peacock: Notre Dame, Big Ten
If your team is involved in a huge game (or playing Notre Dame) look for them to be on the broadcast networks or ESPN. If you went to a less competitive major conference school, their games will be on the networks overflow channels like FS1, Peacock, Espn the Ocho , etc, Unless they are playing Notre Dame. Then they will be on display for what inevitably will be the smaller schools' Superbowl.
IPTV Services
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DirecTV Stream |
FuboTV |
Hulu Plus Live TV |
Sling TV |
YouTube TV |
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Base price |
$75 per month for 75-plus channels |
$75 per month for 100-plus channels |
$70 per month for 90-plus channels |
$40 per month for 30-plus (Orange) or $45 for 40-plus (Blue) channels |
$73 per month for 100-plus channels |
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Free trial |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes |
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ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC channels |
Yes, in many markets |
Yes, in many markets |
Yes, in many markets |
ABC, Fox and NBC only in select cities (Blue only) |
Yes, in many markets |
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Simultaneous streams per account |
20 (in home, 3 outside of it) |
10 (in home, 3 outside of it) |
2 ($15 option for unlimited) |
1 (Orange), 3 (Blue) |
3 ($20 adds unlimited plus 4K streams) |
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Family member/user profiles |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
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Cloud DVR |
Yes (20 hours, unlimited for $10 a month) |
Yes (1,000 hours) |
Yes (unlimited) |
Yes (50 hours, 200 hours for $5 a month) |
Yes (unlimited) |
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Fast-forward through or skip commercials with cloud DVR |
No (yes with $15 option) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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