If you use YouTube TV to get your college football fix, we have some bad news for you.
The cable alternative streaming service dropped ESPN (and its subsidiaries), as well as all other Disney properties, from its platform after it failed to reach a deal with The Walt Disney Company to keep the content available. To account for the change, the service will decrease the price by $15 per month, and the timeline for Disney and co.’s return is unclear.
For fans of college football, especially, this presents a major dilemma, as ESPN owns the rights to televise the majority of bowl games, including the College Football Playoff semifinals and national championship, as well as 33 of the other 36 FBS bowl games in this year.
With bowl season getting into full swing on Saturday, the timing of this couldn’t be worse.
Members, we worked hard to avoid this but were unable to reach a fair deal with Disney. We regret to share that as of December 17, all Disney-owned channels are unavailable on YouTube TV. While Disney content remains off our platform, we’ll decrease our price by $15/month.
— YouTube TV (@YouTubeTV) December 18, 2021
Naturally, sports fans were not happy, with many of them threatening to cancel their YouTube TV subscriptions if an agreement can’t be reached to keep ESPN channels on the platform. Twitter was set ablaze on Saturday morning with frustrated college football fans who are rethinking their cord-cutting decisions.
Here were some of the best reactions on Twitter.
