College football streams

College football guide

College football from noon to midnight

A fall Saturday is the longest day on the college football calendar, with kickoffs from noon Eastern until well after dark on the West Coast. This page gathers the games that have streams set up. Whatever is being played right now sits at the top with a LIVE badge, and the coming days follow beneath it, one heading per date and kickoffs in order.

Streams for a college game unlock an hour before kickoff, the same as every other sport here. Pro football has its own page at NFL, and Canadian football and the UFL sit on More sports.

How the college season unfolds

Late August to November

Kickoff for the season comes in late August, and Labor Day weekend brings a long run of openers from Thursday to Monday night. Several of the first big matchups are played at neutral sites, often in NFL stadiums, and in recent seasons the opening weekend has included a game in Dublin, Ireland, with a start between noon and mid-afternoon on the Eastern clock. From September on, Saturday carries most of the schedule, spread across the whole day. Most weeks also have something on Thursday and Friday nights, and in November some Mid-American Conference teams play on Tuesday and Wednesday nights.

Thanksgiving weekend is rivalry week, when many of the oldest series in the sport are played, just before the conference title games.

December and January

Conference championship games take up the first weekend of December. Army and Navy usually get the second Saturday of the month to themselves. Bowl games begin in mid-December and run into early January, side by side with the College Football Playoff, which ends with the national championship game in January.

Bowl season scatters games across weekdays and holidays, so check the date on each game in late December; many of them are not on a Saturday.

Kickoff windows on a fall Saturday

College games tend to run a little longer than NFL games, well over three hours on average. The LIVE badge here lasts three and a half hours from kickoff, which covers most of them; a game that goes to several overtimes can outlast it, and the stream plays on regardless. A late kickoff keeps its Saturday date on its own game page, even when the last snap comes on Sunday morning.

Finding your game on a crowded Saturday

• Use your browser's find tool (Ctrl+F on a computer, Find in Page on a phone) and type the school or the mascot. Games are listed with full names such as "Michigan Wolverines", so either word will find it.
• The noon window starts a whole wave of games at the same minute, and they are grouped together on the list. Open yours ahead of time; at 11:00 AM ET its rows unlock and the page reloads by itself.
• Every game page closes with a few of the next college kickoffs, handy when you want to move from a noon game to the afternoon window without scrolling back through the day.
• A game with more than one stream row can carry different broadcasts. When the row tells you which network or team feed it is, pick the one you want.
• If a row stalls in the fourth quarter, go back to the tab you opened it from and take the next row instead of reloading the same one over and over.

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