EXACTLY THIS. There are still plenty of people like me who have cable and some streaming services. And with my current set up, I have to change inputs on my tv to get those streaming channels. It’s a lot less easy to casually watch a game that’s streaming.
How much will you watch CFB and how?
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EXACTLY THIS. There are still plenty of people like me who have cable and some streaming services. And with my current set up, I have to change inputs on my tv to get those streaming channels. It’s a lot less easy to casually watch a game that’s streaming.
Turn on over the air in the morning, leave on till the primetime game is over, flip between the networks as needed. If Iowa St is not on OTA will watch on a laptop. If I had to switch to something besides OTA, I would want to switch to one platform, which would be Youtube TV. If ISU was on prime, I would just watch on a laptop.
You don't really have my answer in the poll, so I will say it here. I will get whatever I have to to watch ISU games. If that service includes other games, I will probably watch those as well. My real love for college football is attending games. I won't be spending money hand over fist to watch other college football. I'd rather give that money to ISU athletics, weather that be Cyclone Club, Gridiron or the NIL funds.
I won't go as far to say I'll boycott the Big 10 or SEC, but I certainly won't be spending more money to catch any of their games. I'm not interested in minor league NFL. My viewing will probably switch more to the NFL. Saturdays were usually my football watching day. I would casually tune into the NFL on Sunday while getting work done around the house that I skipped on Saturday. I'll just switch that.
I won't go as far to say I'll boycott the Big 10 or SEC, but I certainly won't be spending more money to catch any of their games. I'm not interested in minor league NFL. My viewing will probably switch more to the NFL. Saturdays were usually my football watching day. I would casually tune into the NFL on Sunday while getting work done around the house that I skipped on Saturday. I'll just switch that.
We have YoutubeTV, Netflix, Amazon, Disney Plus and HBO Max, and depending on how the football streaming washes out, I might have to add something here or there to get what I want. I voted for heavy consumer across 3+ services.
I watch an absolute ton of football, but my only must watch is ISU, so I'll do whatever it takes to watch every game. Beyond that, a service would have to have a metric **** ton of college football content to have me buy it just for that.
I watch an absolute ton of football, but my only must watch is ISU, so I'll do whatever it takes to watch every game. Beyond that, a service would have to have a metric **** ton of college football content to have me buy it just for that.
I got murdered for this in another thread but I'm ISU only now for college fb, maybe some games that directly affect ISU.
I was trending that way anyway compared to years I'd spend entire Saturdays watching the best matchups as I did stuff around the house. Between that natural evolution and the idea of supporting entities that are trying to destroy what makes college football great, can't see myself tuning into the Mich/tOSU game or an SEC game this year even if a fun upset is brewing.
I'm not going to become more of an NFL fan (I never have been one), I'll just watch less football overall. My NFL fandom is basically looking for ISU player highlights which is cool to actually have now.
For basketball I've never watched anybody but ISU, I'll read about other games to get lay of the land but I find college basketball where I don't have the fandom built in to be pretty brutal compared to NBA basketball. Can't stand the brick rate.
I was trending that way anyway compared to years I'd spend entire Saturdays watching the best matchups as I did stuff around the house. Between that natural evolution and the idea of supporting entities that are trying to destroy what makes college football great, can't see myself tuning into the Mich/tOSU game or an SEC game this year even if a fun upset is brewing.
I'm not going to become more of an NFL fan (I never have been one), I'll just watch less football overall. My NFL fandom is basically looking for ISU player highlights which is cool to actually have now.
For basketball I've never watched anybody but ISU, I'll read about other games to get lay of the land but I find college basketball where I don't have the fandom built in to be pretty brutal compared to NBA basketball. Can't stand the brick rate.
I think almost all of us would do what it takes to watch Iowa State. But the real concern is how many neutral people would seek out Iowa state or other big 12 games if they were streaming. That’s the part that I worry about.
I will buy what ever services I need in order to watch ISU football. With the exception of this years Iowa game on BTN, which I will go to a bar.
Outside of that, what ever services I have, I will consume additional football off of those services.
Outside of that, what ever services I have, I will consume additional football off of those services.
- All ISU on any service needed, provided I don't have kids activities or something else going on
- If ISU is having a good season, I'll search and watch games that have some even loose impact on ISU - teams ranked ahead of them, but mostly other B12 games. Granted, I'm pretty lazy about it, though. Usually it's find the best game, flip it on, then be a pretty passive viewer
- If ISU is having a bad season, or often even if they lose that day I lose interest in all other CFB and just look forward to watching a little NFL
The best way to describe it is that I watch CFB because I'm an ISU fan. I do not watch ISU because I'm a CFB fan. ISU 100% drives my college football watching habits.
The varsity network app on my phone makes it so easy I end up listening to a lot of games or maybe a half while I'm out doing stuff or even walking my dogs.
For a few years I was catching games on Sirius/XM that way in the car or with the app but it was frustrating that it'd be the other team's radio sometimes and a few games not on at all.
For a few years I was catching games on Sirius/XM that way in the car or with the app but it was frustrating that it'd be the other team's radio sometimes and a few games not on at all.
That's me for college basketball. I'm a casual NBA fan and ISU only college hoops fan. When I was younger and had more time I was NBA fanatic and ISU only fan.
For football I used to be a legit all of college football fan but I've been moving away from it year by year and this past year has completely killed it, I think growing up in both Iowa/Nebraska made me more of a general fan because it was multiple conferences and even though I hated Nebraska they were the Alabama of my early football fan years. The Big Ten and SEC are going to have to create new fans because a lot of people like me are done with their product who used to watch a lot of the bigger matchups. I'm not sure how you create more college football fans somewhere like Alabama or Ohio, who in those states has decided not to be a college football fan but now they'll start up?
Yep. I’m already configuring my basement and garage for multiple TVs. Switching from game to game while steaming blows.
At the absolute macro level, It will be interesting to see what happens to CFB. We are just getting into the point where the demo that is part of the major contraction of youth football participation are making purchasing and viewing decisions.
If they truly fracture CFB I think it will take a long time, but I see a downward trend coming.
I think there is going to come a day when there are 20ish passionate regionally isolated fan bases/brands and wondering how they can get back to 50-60 active fan bases and geographic range they have now.
Some of these grandfathered in historically unsuccessful/mediocre programs are going to be the Washington Generals of this thing.
I'm a heavy CFB viewer all week. I will watch any game that is on. But I will keep it in the confines of my YTTV subscription. I like to bounce between games so I stay in the service where all the quality content is in one place.
I will go to an added service to find ISU if necessary, but then I'm back to YTTV home base for the rest of my viewing.
If it got to the point where I had to pick up multiple subscription services to follow all the big games in the SEC, B1G, ACC the I would likely stop watching those.
I will go to an added service to find ISU if necessary, but then I'm back to YTTV home base for the rest of my viewing.
If it got to the point where I had to pick up multiple subscription services to follow all the big games in the SEC, B1G, ACC the I would likely stop watching those.
I find myself just watching less sports overall, I used to watch a ton of baseball games, now maybe watch 10 games during the year. And I am in a fantasy baseball league. Don't watch NBA in like 10 yearw
Do watch the NFL more because of the gambling and fantasy football aspect.
College football, because to gambling aspect. You can sit in a casino and drink free beers while watching the game
Do watch the NFL more because of the gambling and fantasy football aspect.
College football, because to gambling aspect. You can sit in a casino and drink free beers while watching the game
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I really wish there was a great way to hook the various services into a single UI that made discovery and flipping around so much easier. I know Apple had this idea with Apple TV+, and it works for some services, but it still sucks.
If that existed, it would make everybody's lives easier - including me with my Hulu+, Netflix, Prime, HBO Max, Apple TV+, Discovery+, Disney+, Paramount, Peacock, and ESPN+ (maybe more I'm forgetting).
I also think that those of us that enjoy Hulu, YouTube TV, Sling, etc are going to gradually see huge price increases as they get stuck with the same problem that traditional cable tv had - they can't just do add-ons that handle these huge increases in sports contracts. They're going to have to fold some into their existing packages to offset some costs and that will lead to even more prices increases than we've seen lately.
If that existed, it would make everybody's lives easier - including me with my Hulu+, Netflix, Prime, HBO Max, Apple TV+, Discovery+, Disney+, Paramount, Peacock, and ESPN+ (maybe more I'm forgetting).
I also think that those of us that enjoy Hulu, YouTube TV, Sling, etc are going to gradually see huge price increases as they get stuck with the same problem that traditional cable tv had - they can't just do add-ons that handle these huge increases in sports contracts. They're going to have to fold some into their existing packages to offset some costs and that will lead to even more prices increases than we've seen lately.
I will watch Big 12 games, minus OU Tx.... they can go have sex with themselves.
I will NOT watch any B1G or SEC games... they do not deserve more ratings from me.
I will NOT watch any B1G or SEC games... they do not deserve more ratings from me.
