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How to Watch Houston Cougars Football Live

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Watch today’s Houston football game live without cable on the device of your choice, including iPhone, Apple TV, Roku, Samsung Smart TVs, and more.

Watch Houston football live without cable
Houston has joined the Big 12, learn how to watch the Cougars live online.
Table of Contents
  1. Important channels
  2. Top picks

Houston football has joined the Big 12, which means some games will stream on ESPN+.

Hulu + Live TV, with the ESPN+ bundle, offers full coverage of the Cougars from one app. If you are ok signing up for ESPN+ a la carte, Fubo is a better choice for comprehensive Houston sports coverage. Fubo gets local Cougar fans access to UH football, as well as Houston Rockets and Houston Astros games on AT&T Sportsnet Southwest, plus KHOU-TV CBS 11 for watching CJ Stroud and the Texans.

Hulu + Live TV

Watch every Houston Cougar football game including ESPN+ games.

$69.99 / month

Sign Up for Hulu

Fubo

Watch Houston football, plus Houston pro sports.

$74.99 / month

7 Day Free Trial

ESPN Plus

Watch a handful of Cougar games on ESPN+.

$9.99 / month

Sign Up for ESPN+

Important channels

Big Houston football games can air on ABC and ESPN, but the bulk of the Cougars schedule will be broadcast on channels like CBS Sports Network, FS1, ESPNU, ESPN2, and ESPN+. Houston basketball is featured on many of the same channels.

DIRECTV STREAMFuboHulu + Live TVSling TV Orange + Sports ExtraYouTube TV
ABC ABC
CBS Sports Network CBS Sports Network
ESPN ESPN
ESPN2 ESPN2
ESPN3 ESPN3
ESPNU ESPNU
FS1 FS1
AT&T SportsNet Southwest AT&T SportsNet Southwest
Bally Sports Southwest Bally Sports Southwest

Top picks

Although the platform doesn’t carry ESPN+, we like DIRECTV STREAM “Ultra” here because it gets you ESPNU, CBS Sports Network, and all the rest of the channels you need to watch Houston football, but also Bally Sports Southwest for watching Houston Rockets games in-market, and AT&T SportsNet Southwest for watching the Astros.

Watch the Texans on KHOU CBS 11.


fuboTV “Sports Lite” carries all the channels you need to watch Houston football except for ESPN+. Astros fans can watch the team’s regular season action in-market on AT&T SportsNet Southwest with a fuboTV subscription.


If you only want to watch Houston Cougars football and aren’t interested in the Astros or Rockets, Hulu + Live TV is the best option because of the platform’s ESPN+ bundle. With Hulu + Live TV, Houston football fans can get every game from one app.

Note that you don’t need a Hulu subscription to get ESPN+ programming, it is possible to sign up à la carte.


YouTube TV doesn’t carry ESPN+, but the live TV streaming service does offer all the channels you need to stream Houston football games, plus an extensive 4K lineup, and a bevy of innovative features, like Stats View and Key Plays. A Google account is required to signup, but watching football on YouTube TV is fun, pure and simple.

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