Overview
- College GameDay will stream for free on the ESPN App and on the ESPN and Pat McAfee X accounts through the end of the regular season.
- Disney and YouTube TV struck a new carriage deal after a multi‑week standoff, restoring ABC, ESPN and FX to roughly 10 million subscribers according to prior reporting.
- YouTube said affected channels and users’ previously saved DVR recordings would return and apologized for the disruption.
- The social streaming started during the outage and reportedly drew 1.18 million viewers on McAfee’s X account for the Nov. 1 show.
- News coverage frames the free streams as a goodwill play following the blackout, with the pregame airing from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. ET.