How to watch college football on ESPN Plus

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The college football regular season has come to an end, which means it's bowl season. 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 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 (we also shared the traditional TV channel they are airing on):

Saturday, December 16

  • Myrtle Beach Bowl: Georgia Southern vs Ohio, 11 am ET/8 am PT (ESPN)
  • Cricket Celebration Bowl: Buffalo vs Florida A&M, noon ET/9 am PT (ABC)
  • R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl: Jacksonville State vs Louisiana, 2:15 pm ET/11:15 am PT (ESPN)
  • Avocados from Mexico Cure Bowl: Miami (OH) vs Appalachian State, 3:30 pm ET/12:30 pm PT (ABC)
  • Isleta New Mexico Bowl: New Mexico State vs Fresno State, 5:45 pm ET/2:45 pm PT (ESPN)
  • Starco Brands LA Bowl: UCLA vs Boise State, 7:30 pm ET/4:30 pm PT (ABC)
  • Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl: California vs Texas Tech, 9:15 pm ET/6:15 pm PT (ESPN)

Monday, December 18

  • Famous Toastery Bowl: Western Kentucky vs Old Dominion, 2:30 pm ET/11:30 am PT (ESPN)

Tuesday, December 19

  • Scooter's Coffee Frisco Bowl: UTSA vs Marshall, 9 pm ET/6 pm PT (ESPN)

Thursday, December 21

  • RoofClaim.com Boca Raton Bowl: South Florida vs Syracuse, 8 pm ET/5 pm PT (ESPN)

Friday, December 22

  • Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl: Georgia Tech vs UCF, 6:30 pm ET/3:30 pm PT (ESPN)

Saturday, December 23

  • 76 Birmingham Bowl: Troy vs Duke, noon ET/9 am PT (ABC)
  • Camellia Bowl: Arkansas State vs Northern Illinois, noon ET/9 am PT (ESPN)
  • Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl: James Madison vs Air Force, 3:30 pm ET/12:30 pm PT (ABC)
  • Famous Idaho Potato Bowl: Georgia State vs Utah State, 3:30 pm ET/12:30 pm PT (ESPN)
  • 68 Ventures Bowl: South Alabama vs Eastern Michigan, 7 pm ET/4 pm PT (ESPN)
  • SRS Distribution Las Vegas Bowl: Utah vs Northwestern, 7:30 pm ET/4:30 pm PT (ABC)
  • EasyPost Hawai'i Bowl: Coastal Carolina vs San Jose State, 10:30 pm ET/7:30 pm PT (ESPN)

Tuesday, December 26

  • Quick Lane Bowl: Bowling Green vs Minnesota, 2 pm ET/11 am PT (ESPN)
  • SERVPRO First Responder Bowl: Texas State vs Rice, 5:30 pm ET/2:30 pm PT (ESPN)
  • Guaranteed Rate Bowl: Kansas vs UNLV, 9 pm ET/6 pm PT (ESPN)

Wednesday, December 27

  • Military Bowl Presented by GoBowling.com: Virginia Tech vs Tulane, 2 pm ET/11 am PT (ESPN)
  • Duke's Mayo Bowl: North Carolina vs West Virginia, 5:30 pm ET/2:30 pm PT (ESPN)
  • TaxAct Texas Bowl: Texas A&M vs Oklahoma State, 9 pm ET/6 pm PT (ESPN)

Thursday, December 28

  • Wasabi Fenway Bowl: SMU vs Boston College, 11 am ET/8 am PT (ESPN)
  • Bad Boy Mowers Pinstripe Bowl: Rutgers vs Miami, 2:15 pm ET/11:15 am PT (ESPN)
  • Pop-Tarts Bowl: NC State vs Kansas State, 5:45 pm ET/2:45 pm PT (ESPN)
  • Valero Alamo Bowl: Arizona vs Oklahoma, 9:15 pm ET/6:15 pm PT (ESPN)

Friday, December 29

  • TaxSlayer Gator Bowl: Clemson vs Kentucky, noon ET/9 am PT (ESPN)
  • AutoZone Liberty Bowl: Memphis vs Iowa State, 3:30 pm ET/12:30 pm PT (ESPN)
  • Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic: Missouri vs Ohio State, 8 pm ET/5 pm PT (ESPN)

Saturday, December 30

  • Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl: Ole Miss vs Penn State, noon ET/9 am PT (ESPN)
  • TransPerfect Music City Bowl: Auburn vs Maryland, 2 pm ET/11 am PT (ABC)
  • Capital One Orange Bowl: Georgia vs Florida State, 4 pm ET/1 pm PT (ESPN)
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