Sports fans will tell you that there's one major downside to cutting the cord to watch Super Bowl 2026: lag time. Now, unless you're literally going to be in Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, to watch Super Bowl LX on Feb. 8, any streaming service or cable alternative is going to be slightly behind the action. Heck, even over-the-air broadcasts are delayed by a few seconds to avoid ... well, wardrobe malfunctions, among other things.
But live TV streaming services are far behind what you get from an over-the-air broadcast, at least according to data from Phenix. If you used Fubo to watch Super Bowl 2025, you were 78 seconds behind the live game. Even last year's free Tubi livestream of Super Bowl 2025, which was a revelation, was 26 seconds behind the game.
