The College Football App for Every Team You Follow

Is there a free college football app?

Yes — Varsity Slate is free to browse with no account and no download: every FBS and FCS schedule, live scores, and final results are open to anyone, starting at the college football hub. A free account adds the follow features: it saves one school with one sport as your personal slate and includes that team's auto-updating calendar feed at no cost. If your football life spans more schools, the Teammate tier covers five schools for $4.99 per month or $29.99 per year, and Head Coach ($49.99 per year) removes the school limit entirely. There is no App Store install because Varsity Slate is a web app — open it in Safari or Chrome, and add it to your home screen if you want an app icon. Checking a Saturday score never costs anything: free browsing is the product, not a trial. Compare every plan side by side on the pricing page.

How do I track multiple college football teams?

Follow each school once and Varsity Slate merges their football schedules into a single chronological slate — no more flipping between a favorites list, two athletics sites, and a group chat. The classic case is a split household: your Big Ten alma mater, a spouse's SEC school, and the FCS program where your nephew plays all stack onto the same Saturday in kickoff order, each row carrying its own live score. A free account follows one school; the Teammate tier raises that to five, which fits most real families. Rivalries get dedicated head-to-head pages — see Michigan vs Ohio State — with recent results and the next meeting. And guests are never locked out: browse every program in the schools directory without signing in.

Does it show kickoff times and TV channels?

Yes. Every game page lists the kickoff time and, once a broadcaster is assigned, the network carrying it — ABC, ESPN, FS1, a conference network like SEC Network or Big Ten Network, or an ESPN+ stream. College football TV windows are typically announced six to twelve days out, so early-season "TBA" kickoffs are normal: Varsity Slate re-syncs schedules automatically throughout the day, and times and networks fill in on their own as they are announced — no manual refresh, no stale bookmark. With 1,634 games already on the 2026 slate, the college football hub is the quickest way to scan a full week of kickoffs by date, and each game's page answers the "what channel is it on" question in one tap.

Can I get my team's football schedule in my calendar?

Yes. Every football team has an ICS calendar feed that subscribes into Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, or Outlook and keeps itself current — when a kickoff moves from TBA to 3:30 on SEC Network, the calendar event updates on its own. Per-team and per-school feeds are included on the free tier; creating one requires a free account, since feeds are tied to your slate. A combined feed that merges every school you follow into one calendar is coming soon. Either way, that beats the static schedule download most athletics sites offer, which goes stale the first time a kickoff time is announced. The full setup walkthrough for Google, Apple, and Outlook lives on the college sports calendar page.

How fast are live scores?

During games, scores refresh about every 30 seconds — close enough to real time for the check-your-phone-from-a-wedding use case. Each live game shows the current score and period, then flips to a final result the moment the game ends. On a full Saturday, the football scores page works as a scoreboard you leave open: every FBS and FCS game in progress, in one list. If you follow a school, its games surface on your own slate first, and you can turn on game-start and final-score alerts with a free account. Rankings move weekly rather than by the second — the current Top 25 lives on the football rankings page, alongside each ranked team's record.

What about FCS teams?

FCS fans are first-class here. Varsity Slate tracks 754 Division I football programs — the full Division I universe, FBS and FCS alike — so North Dakota State, Montana, and South Dakota State get the same treatment as Alabama: complete schedules, live scores, broadcast info when a network or stream is listed, and a calendar feed. That matters because FCS is exactly where the big national apps get thin, and it is where families need coverage most — if your kid plays at an FCS school, their Saturday counts as much as any top-10 matchup. The FCS calendar also runs longer than many fans realize, with a playoff bracket that stretches into January. Find any program in the schools directory and follow it like any other.

Should I just use the ESPN app or my school's app?

Sometimes, honestly, yes. The ESPN app is the best national college football companion — game highlights, GameDay-adjacent coverage, and news across every league. Official athletics apps are built for one school's gameday: tickets, parking, in-stadium extras. And checking each school's site works fine — it is just manual, one tab per team, every Saturday. Varsity Slate wins one specific job those options treat as an afterthought: several schools' football on a single slate, with auto-updating calendar feeds.

Want the longer, honest breakdown — including when ESPN is the better choice? Read the ESPN app alternative comparison.

How does it work?

1. 1.Pick your schools — Search the schools directory — FBS or FCS — and follow the football programs you care about.
2. 2.See your Saturday slate — Your games line up in kickoff order with TV networks and live scores; the football hub covers the rest of the country.
3. 3.Sync and get alerts — Add a calendar feed so kickoffs land in Google or Apple Calendar automatically, and turn on game-start and final-score alerts.

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