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The cheapest streaming service that includes every channel that will have a Notre Dame football game is Hulu With Live TV. For more info about Hulu With Live TV and other live stream options, read on below.
The Notre Dame Fighting Irish will look to make a second consecutive trip to the College Football Playoff in 2019.
In 2019, Notre Dame football games will be televised on either NBC, ABC, CBS, ESPN, ESPN2 or ACC Network. If you don’t have cable, you can watch Notre Dame games live on your computer, phone, Roku, Fire TV Stick, Xbox One, PS4 or other streaming device via one of the following cable-free, live-TV streaming services:
Hulu With Live TV
Notre Dame Football Channels Included: NBC, ABC, CBS, ESPN, ESPN2, ACC Network (NBC, ABC and CBS are live in select markets)
Price: $44.99 per month
Not only is this the cheapest streaming service that includes every channel that will have a Notre Dame football game this season, but Hulu With Live TV also comes with Hulu’s extensive Netflix-like on-demand library of TV shows and movies.
You can sign up for Hulu with Live TV right here, and you can then watch Notre Dame games live on your computer via the Hulu website, or on your phone (Android and iPhone supported), tablet, Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Chromecast, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Echo Show, or other streaming device via the Hulu app.
If ABC is not available in your market, you can also watch ABC games via ESPN.com or the ESPN app without having to sign in to a cable provider as long as you have a participating Internet Service Provider (ISP).
If you can’t watch a game live, Hulu With Live TV comes with 50 hours of cloud DVR space, as well as the option to upgrade to “Enhanced Cloud DVR,” which gives you 200 hours of space and the ability to fast-forward through commercials.
Sling TV
Notre Dame Football Channels Included: NBC (Sling Blue, live in select markets), ESPN (Sling Orange), ESPN2 (Sling Orange)
Price: $25 per month for Sling Blue; $25 per month for Sling Orange; $40 per month for Sling Orange+Blue
This is the cheapest option that includes NBC (which will have most Notre Dame games in 2019), but it still has the drawback of not including ABC, CBS or ACC Network. Still, there are other easy and cheap ways to watch the ABC and CBS games (more on that below), so this isn’t a bad option overall.
You can sign up for Sling TV right here, and you can then watch Notre Dame games that are on the ESPN channels or NBC live on your computer via the Sling TV website, or on your phone (Android and iPhone supported), tablet, Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Chromecast, Xbox One or other streaming device via the Sling TV app.
If you can’t watch live, you can get 50 hours of cloud DVR storage for an additional $5 per month.
ABC isn’t included, but you can watch ABC games via ESPN.com or the ESPN app without having to sign in to a cable provider as long as you have a participating Internet Service Provider (ISP).
CBS also isn’t included, but you can watch those games through either Amazon Prime’s CBS Channel or CBS All-Access.
YouTube TV
Notre Dame Football Channels Included: NBC, ABC, CBS, ESPN, ESPN2, ACC Network (NBC, ABC and CBS are live in select markets)
Price: $49.99 per month
YouTube TV also includes every channel that will have Notre Dame games, but it’s more expensive than Hulu With Live TV and doesn’t include the huge on-demand TV/movie library, so the value isn’t as good.
You can sign up for YouTube TV right here, and you can then watch Notre Dame games live on your computer via the YouTube website, or on your phone (Android and iPhone supported), tablet, Roku, Apple TV, Chromecast, Xbox One or other compatible streaming device via the YouTube app.
If ABC is not available in your market, you can also watch ABC games via ESPN.com or the ESPN app without having to sign in to a cable provider as long as you have a participating Internet Service Provider (ISP).
If you can’t watch live, YouTube TV comes with included DVR.
Notre Dame 2019 Preview
Notre Dame went undefeated in the regular season a year ago to reach their first College Football Playoff, where they fell to eventual champions Clemson in the Cotton Bowl.
The Irish lost six players to April’s NFL draft, including first-round defensive tackle Jerry Tillery, but head coach Brian Kelly told reporters on August 21 he was confident in his young roster.
“I think what’s most important is we’ve got a number of really talented players,” Kelly said in a press conference, according to The Observer. “What we’re really … excited about is that this team has handled everything that I’ve asked them to do in terms of practice — the leadership has been great. Certainly all of the things that go to winning, the traits that we ask them to work on every day, I’ve been really pleased with that.”
Ian Book, who took over for Brandon Wimbush as the team’s starting quarterback three games into last season, opens this year’s campaign as the unquestioned starter.
“The biggest change for Ian is you go from being the kid that probably wasn’t supposed to play and then coming in and playing so well that everyone loves you to now you’re the guy and your expectation level is through the roof,” quarterbacks coach Tom Rees said, according to 247Sports.
“Are you steady every day? How do you continue to make big plays? How do you continue to get better? For me, the advancement for him was we needed to push the ball down the field and be more consistent there.
“The next step for him is to get through progressions without trying to get out of the pocket all the time. You don’t want to take that game away from him, but you also want him to see, ‘Hey, if you get through mentally quicker, good things (are going to) happen.’”
As a junior in 2018, Book completed 68.2 percent of his passes for 2,628 yards, 19 touchdowns, and seven interceptions across 10 contests, but he struggled some with deep throws.
“Ian’s extremely accurate and he’s always trying to make the perfect throw,” Rees said, per 247Sports. “But deep balls don’t always have to be the perfect throw. You have opportunities to let your guys make the play or run underneath it. It’s just understanding when to drive one, when to give a deep ball with some touch — with some air — and then anticipating out of breaks.
“It doesn’t have to be a 65-yard throw every time. Obviously the deep ball has been quite the conversation, but he’s taken it upon himself to work at it, to get better, to push himself and make sure when those big plays are presented that we can capitalize.”
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