Podcast #1114: Where to Watch College Football
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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.

News:

• TCL Launches Branded Streaming Platform TCLtv+ With Interactive Tech)
• Dolby Atmos will use your TV to expand living room speaker setups)
• Google adds first-gen indoor Nest cameras to its Home app)
• Deal Alert! Get Half Off a Year of Paramount+ Just in Time For September’s NFL & College Football Games)
• TCL Launches Massive 98" S Class S5 TV With Bezel-less Design for Under $5k)

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  

DirecTV Stream

FuboTV

Hulu Plus Live TV

Sling TV

YouTube TV

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

Free trial

Yes

Yes

No

No

Yes

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

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)

Family member/user profiles

No

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

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)

Fast-forward through or skip commercials with cloud DVR

No (yes with $15 option)

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes