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How to watch college football on ESPN Plus

Appalachian State's Chase Brice

Fall Saturdays are for college football and there are a variety of options to make sure you can see as many games as possible each week, including live streaming college football on ESPN Plus. The cable sports leader's streaming service includes college football as one of its highlight offerings. 

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 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 games on ESPN Plus

The 2023 college football season is just a few weeks away, with the first slate of games taking place on Saturday, August 26, before the season gets into full swing the Thursday, August 31, to Monday, September 4.

In fact, we already know what college football games are going to be available on ESPN Plus for its kickoff week. Here is the full schedule:

Thursday, August 31

  • Rhode Island vs Georgia State, 7 pm ET/4 pm PT
  • St. Franics (PA) vs Western Michigan, 7 pm ET/4 pm PT
  • Arkansas-Pine Bluff vs Tulsa, 8 pm ET/5 pm PT
  • North Carolina A&T vs UAB, 8 pm ET/5 pm PT

Friday, September 1

  • Howard vs Eastern Michigan
  • Missouri State vs Kansas

Saturday, September 2

  • Mercer vs Ole Miss, 2 pm ET/11 am PT
  • Northern Iowa vs Iowa State, 2 pm ET/11 am PT
  • Akron vs Temple, 2 pm ET/11 am PT
  • Long Island University vs Ohio, 2 pm ET/11 am PT
  • Eastern Kentucky vs Cincinnati, 3:30 pm ET/12:30 pm PT
  • Gardner-Webb vs Appalachian State, 3:30 pm ET/12:30 pm PT
  • Western Carolina vs Arkansas, 4 pm ET/1 pm PT
  • Colgate vs Syracuse, 4 pm ET/1 pm PT
  • UT Martin vs Georgia, 6 pm ET/3 pm PT
  • South Carolina State vs Charlotte, 6 pm ET/3 pm PT
  • Monmouth vs Florida Atlantic, 6 pm ET/3 pm PT
  • The Citadel vs Georgia Southern, 6 pm ET/3 pm PT
  • Bucknell vs James Madison, 6 pm ET/3 pm PT
  • Albany vs Marshall, 6 pm ET/3 pm PT
  • Maine vs Florida International, 6:30 pm ET/3:30 pm PT
  • Alabama A&M vs Vanderbilt, 7 pm ET/4 pm PT
  • Texas State vs Baylor, 7 pm ET/4 pm PT
  • Southeast Missouri State vs Kansas State, 7 pm ET/4 pm PT
  • Central Arkansas vs Oklahoma State, 7 pm ET/4 pm PT
  • Bethune-Cookman vs Memphis, 7 pm ET/4 pm PT
  • Alcorn State vs Southern Miss, 7 pm ET/4 pm PT
  • Stephen F. Austin vs Troy, 7 pm ET/4 pm PT
  • Northwestern State vs Louisiana, 7:30 pm ET/4:30 pm PT
  • Western Illinois vs New Mexico State, 9 pm ET/6 pm PT
  • Incarnate World vs UTEP, 9 pm ET/6 pm PT
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