How to watch college football on ESPN Plus

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The college football is back, as the 2024 season is officially underway. With that, comes nearly daily college football games for your entertainment, many of which will be available on ESPN's family of channels, including streaming on ESPN Plus.

Whether you've cut the cord and have opted to watch college football online exclusively or just want to be sure you don't miss any of your favorite school's games, then ESPN Plus is an important service to have this college football season.

Here's everything that you need to know about how to sign up for ESPN Plus to start watching college football and what games are available on the sports streaming service.

How to watch college football on ESPN Plus

ESPN Plus is a subscription streaming service, so those who want to watch any of the live college football action it has to offer is going to need to sign up. The good news is that ESPN Plus works on a wide variety of platforms, including on a computer, Apple or Android mobile device/tablet, Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Vizio TV, Samsung TV, Android TV, Apple TV, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series S | X, Google Chromecast, Xfinity and Cox Contour and X1.

While you can sign up for ESPN Plus as a standalone service, it can also be combined with Disney Plus and Hulu by signing up for the Disney Bundle, which provides all three streaming services for a single, discounted monthly fee. ESPN Plus is also included as a standard feature of Hulu with Live TV.

ESPN Plus is only available for US consumers.

College football bowl games on ESPN Plus

Here is the full list of college football bowl games that are going to be available to stream on ESPN Plus this Saturday, October 26. We've indicated if a game is available on another channel/platform:

Saturday, October 26

  • Notre Dame vs Navy, noon ET/9 am PT (ABC)
  • Georgia State vs App State, 1 pm ET/10 am PT
  • Central Michigan vs Miami (OH), 2 pm ET/11 am PT
  • Temple vs East Carolina, 2 pm ET/11 am PT
  • Missouri vs Alabama, 3:30 pm ET/12:30 pm PT (ABC)
  • Oklahoma State vs Baylor, 3:30 pm ET/12:30 pm PT
  • Southern Miss vs James Madison, 3:30 pm ET/12:30 pm PT
  • Eastern Michigan vs Akron, 3:30 pm ET/12:30 pm PT
  • Northern Illinois vs Ball State, 3:30 pm ET/12:30 pm PT
  • Bowling Green vs Toledo, 3:30 pm ET/12:30 pm PT
  • Kent State vs Western Michigan, 3:30 pm ET/12:30 pm PT
  • Wagner vs Massachusetts, 3:30 pm ET/12:30 pm PT
  • UTSA vs Tulsa, 3:30 pm ET/12:30 pm PT
  • UL Monroe vs South Alabama, 5 pm ET/2 pm PT
  • Utah vs Houston, 7 pm ET/4 pm PT
  • Troy vs Arkansas State, 7 pm ET/4 pm PT
  • LSU vs Texas A&M, 7:30 pm ET/4:30 pm PT (ABC)
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