This means that over week 0 and 1, 33 college football games will air exclusively on ESPN+ including games with UL Monroe, UAB, and Eastern Michigan. In the past, these games would have typically streamed for free with ESPN3. Now you will need a subscription to ESPN+.
Not all ESPN3 games are moving to ESPN+. ESPN3 will still have 20+ games. The upside here for football fans is this could mean additional games get streamed that wouldn’t have under the old system. According to ESPN they will have ESPN+ coverage of college football, basketball, baseball, softball, soccer, track & field, gymnastics, swimming & diving, lacrosse, wrestling, volleyball, golf and more—from 20 conferences across the country.
Here are some of the sports events available on ESPN+:
- MLB– A daily game, seven days per week, throughout the regular season; more than 180 games that will include every MLB team.*
- NHL– Beginning with the 2018–19 season, a daily game throughout the regular season (in keeping with the NHL schedule), a total of more than 180 hockey games*—and on-demand replays of the 2018 Stanley Cup Playoffs.
- MLS– The entire MLS LIVE out-of-market schedule with more than 250 games* this season, and the local-market home for the Chicago Fire, exclusively bringing 23 Fire matches to fans in Chicago.
- College Sports– Thousands of live events including football, basketball, baseball, softball, soccer, track & field, gymnastics, swimming & diving, lacrosse, wrestling, volleyball, golf and more—from 20 conferences across the country.
- Top Rank Boxing– Hundreds of live boxing matches including 18 ESPN+ exclusive Top Rank fight cards throughout the year, all Top Rank on ESPN undercard fights, re-airs of all Top Rank on ESPN and Top Rank on ESPN PPV bouts, plus weigh-ins and more.
- PGA Tour Golf– 50 days of coverage from 20 PGA tour events including the RBC Heritage, THE PLAYERS Championship, the Memorial Tournament presented by Nationwide, WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, and the FedExCup Playoffs.
- Grand Slam Tennis– Hundreds of men’s and women’s singles, doubles, and other matches, from the Australian Open, Wimbledon, and the US Open.
- Cricket– Hundreds of Test, ODI, and T20 format matches from New Zealand Cricket and Cricket Ireland.
- Rugby– Hundreds of matches from SANZAAR Rugby, the HSBC World Rugby Sevens series, and Major League Rugby.
- Canadian Football League– Nearly 200 games from Canada’s professional league.
- English Football League– Approximately 200 matches, including an average of four per week from Sky Bet Championship Playoffs, League 1 and League 2, plus six matches per month from the EFL Cup (beginning in August) and 16 matches per month throughout the EFL 2018–19 season.
- UEFA Nations League– Over 100 live matches from the newly created tournament. Pay TV customers with an ESPN+ subscription will be able to access the entire tournament including the 36 UNL matches on ESPN linear networks and ESPN3.
- United Soccer League– Approximately 450 USL matches this season.
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