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How to watch the Miami vs. Florida NCAA college football game today: Livestream options, more
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Week 1 of the NCAA college football season has arrived. Today, the University of Miami Hurricanes face the University of Florida Gators in their 2024 season opener. Both teams feature veteran quarterbacks in Cam Ward and Graham Mertz respectively, promising a terrific Saturday of college football.
Keep reading to find out how and when to watch the Miami vs. Florida game, even if you don’t have cable.
How and when to watch the Miami vs. Florida NCAA college football game
The Miami vs. Florida game will be played on Saturday, August 31, 2024 at 3:30 p.m. ET (12:30 p.m. PT). The college football game will air on ABC, and stream on Sling TV and the platforms featured below.
How and when to watch today’s Miami vs. Florida game without cable
While many cable packages include ABC, it’s easy to watch the game if ABC isn’t included in your cable TV subscription, or if you don’t have cable at all. Your best options for watching are below. (Streaming options will require an internet provider.)
Sling TV: The most cost-effective way to stream college football
If you don’t have cable TV that includes ABC, one of the most cost-effective ways to stream college football this season is through a subscription to Sling TV. We suggest leveling up your coverage to the Orange + Blue with Sports Extra tier to get more NFL and college football games this fall.
The Orange + Blue plan regularly costs $60 per month, but the streamer currently offers a half off promotion for your first month, so you’ll pay just $30. The Orange + Blue with Sports Extra plan is $45 for your first month and $75 per month after. The Sports Extras add-on ($15/mo.) features 18 channels, including ESPNU, SEC Network, Big 10 Network and ACC Network, making it ideal for college football fans.
The streamer is also currently offering big savings on four months of the Orange + Blue tier plus the Sports Extra plan when you prepay for the Sling TV Season Pass. The plan costs $219, reduced from $300.
Note: Because Sling TV does not carry CBS, Sling subscribers will want to add Paramount+ to their bundle.
Paramount+ and CBS Essentials are both subsidiaries of Paramount Global.
Top features of Sling TV Orange + Blue plan:
- Sling TV is our top choice for streaming major sporting events like NASCAR.
- There are 52 channels to watch in total, including local ESPN, NBC, Fox and ABC affiliates (where available).
- You get access to most local NFL games and nationally broadcast games at the lowest price.
- All subscription tiers include 50 hours of cloud-based DVR storage.
- You can add Golf Channel, NBA TV, NHL Network, NFL RedZone, MLB Network, Tennis Channel and more sports-oriented channels (18 in total) via Sling TV’s Sports Extras add-on.
Watch the Miami vs. Florida game free with FuboTV
You can watch every college football game airing on network TV, including today’s game, on FuboTV. FuboTV is a sports-centric streaming service that offers access to almost every college football and NFL game of the season. Packages include CBS, Fox Sunday NFC games via “NFL on Fox”, NBC (Sunday Night Football), ESPN (Monday Night Football), NFL Network and more, so you’ll be able to watch more than just today’s games, all without a cable subscription.
To watch college football without cable, start a seven-day free trial of Fubo. You can begin watching immediately on your TV, phone, tablet or computer. In addition to NFL football, FuboTV offers MLB, NBA, NHL, MLS and international soccer games.
Top features of FuboTV Pro Tier:
- There are no contracts with FuboTV — you can cancel at any time.
- The Pro tier includes over 180 channels, including NFL Network. (You’ll need to upgrade to Ultimate for NFL RedZone.)
- FuboTV includes all the channels you’ll need to watch college and pro football, including CBS (not available through Sling TV).
- All tiers come with 1,000 hours of cloud-based DVR recording.
- Stream on your TV, phone, tablet and other devices.
Watch the Miami vs. Florida game on Hulu + Live TV
You can watch college football, including ABC and ESPN with Hulu + Live TV. The bundle features access to 90 channels, including both Fox and FS1. Unlimited DVR storage is also included. Watch every game on every network with Hulu + Live TV, plus catch live NFL preseason games, exclusive live regular season games, popular studio shows (including NFL Total Access and the Emmy-nominated show Good Morning Football) and lots more.
Hulu + Live TV comes bundled with ESPN+ and Disney+ for $77 per month after a three-day free trial.
Watch college football on ESPN+
ESPN+ will stream some college football games this year, including today’s Miami vs. Florida game. ESPN+ is ESPN’s subscription streaming platform, which offers coverage of some of Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark’s WNBA games, original studio shows and top-tier series that aren’t accessible on the ESPN networks. ESPN+ subscribers may purchase UFC PPV events and access the platform’s vast archive of on-demand content, including the entire 30 For 30 catalog, game replays and select ESPN films.
ESPN+ offers exclusive live sports, original shows, and a vast library of on-demand content, including the entire 30 For 30 series and more. Here’s a sampling of what’s available on ESPN+:
- Exclusive fantasy sports tools and content from some of the sports world’s most respected voices in sports.
- Every Fight Night UFC event UFC PPV event (PPV events are subject to an additional charge).
- Soccer including EFL Championship, US Open Cup and Bundesliga.
- College sports including the Ivy League, Big Sky Conference and Atlantic A10 Conference.
- MLB and the World Series.
- Top-tier tennis including the Australian Open and Wimbledon.
- The PGA Tour and the Masters.
It is important to note that ESPN+ does not include access to the ESPN network. It is a separate sports-centric service, with separate sports programming. An ESPN+ subscription costs $11 per month. Or save 15% when you pay annually ($110).
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Who is favored to win today’s Miami vs. Florida college football game?
According to our sister site CBS Sports, the Miami Hurricanes are a 2.5-point favorite to win today’s game against the University of Florida Gators.
What is the Miami Hurricanes current team ranking?
The University of Miami Hurricanes are currently ranked 16 out of 134 teams, according to our sister site CBS Sports.
What is the Florida Gators current team ranking?
The University of Florida Gators are currently ranked 38 out of 134 teams, according to CBS Sports.
When is the 2024 NCAA college football championship game?
The College Football Playoff National Championship will be Monday, January 20, 2025, at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta.
Stuart and Tonya Junker loved their quiet neighborhood near South Dakota‘s Black Hills – until the earth began collapsing around them, leaving them wondering if their home could tumble into a gaping hole.
They blame the state for selling land that became the Hideaway Hills subdivision despite knowing it was perched above an old mine. Since the sinkholes began opening up, they and about 150 of their neighbors sued the state for $45 million to cover the value of their homes and legal costs.
“Let’s just say it’s really changed our lives a lot,” Tonya Junker said. “The worry, the not sleeping, the ‘what if’ something happens. It’s all of it, all of the above.”
Sinkholes are fairly common, due to collapsed caves, old mines or dissolving material but the circumstances in South Dakota stand out, said Paul Santi, a professor of geological engineering at the Colorado School of Mines. The combination of such large sinkholes endangering so many homes makes the Hideaway Hills situation one to remember.
“I can say just from having taught classes about case histories with geologic problems that this would be a case that will end up in textbooks,” Santi said.
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Crews built Hideaway Hills, located a few miles northwest of Rapid City, from 2002 to 2004 in an area previously owned by the state where the mineral gypsum was mined for use at a nearby state-owned cement plant.
Attorney Kathy Barrow, who represents residents who live in 94 subdivision homes, said the state sold the surface but held on to the subsurface and it did not disclose it had removed the soil’s natural ability to hold up the surface.
Some of the land slightly sunk over time after the subdivision was built, and a hole opened up beneath a back porch, but the situation escalated after a large sinkhole opened up in 2020 near where a man was mowing his lawn. That prompted residents to connect with Barrow and testing revealed a large, improperly sealed mine beneath the northeastern part of the subdivision, and a 40-foot-deep (12-meter-deep) pit mine in another corner of the neighborhood, Barrow said.
Since that first giant collapse, more holes and sinkings have appeared and there are now “too many to count,” Barrow said. The unstable ground has affected 158 homes plus destabilized roads and utilities.
In one spot, an old truck can be seen in a hole beneath a house porch, still resting where a landowner pushed it into a mine cavern in the 1940s, Barrow said.
The area near the 2020 collapse has been vacated and gated off, but people still live in many of the other homes, usually because they can’t afford to leave.
Residents are panicked but stuck, Barrow said.
“They’re worried about school buses falling into a hole. They worry about their houses collapsing on their children in their beds at night,” Barrow said. “I mean, you spend your whole life putting money and building equity in your home. It’s your most prized asset, and these people’s asset had become not only worthless but almost a negative because they’re dangerous to live in.”
An attorney for the state declined to comment, but the state has asked a judge to dismiss the case.
In court documents, the state entities being sued said they “would like to express their sincerest sympathies for many of the property owners” and called the sinkhole formation “tragic.”
Still, the state argued that it wasn’t the fault of officials.
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“Those truly liable in this case are the developer, the initial realtor, and the numerous homebuilders who knowingly chose to build over an abandoned mine while purposefully hiding its existence from the homebuyers purchasing in Hideaway Hills,” the state said.
In court documents, the state traced the area’s mining history to the 1900s, noting a company that mined underground and on the surface before 1930. Beginning in 1986, the state-owned cement plant mined for several years.
The state claimed it wasn’t liable for damages related to the underground mine collapse because the cement plant didn’t mine underground and the mine would have collapsed regardless of the plant’s activities. Around 1994, a horse farmer bought the land and then later sold the property to a developer who encountered a deep hole, the state said in documents.
The state said it couldn’t have known that the developer, homebuilders and the county would move ahead with the neighborhood’s development despite allegedly knowing about the past mining and underground voids.
In 2000, the South Dakota Legislature approved the sale of the state cement plant. A voter-approved trust fund created from proceeds of the sale stands at over $371 million.
For the Junkers, the lawsuit is their best hope of escaping from a nightmare.
Tonya Junker said her husband was going to retire this year, but now he has to work longer, taking on two jobs to save money in case they are evacuated.
“That’s a hard pill to swallow,” she said.
The Junkers have lived 15 years together in the neighborhood, in a home built in 1929 and moved to the subdivision as one of the first homes in the neighborhood. They gutted and remodeled the structure and planned to make the three-bedroom, two-bathroom home their base for retirement.
Stuart Junker said he simply wants to be paid what his house is worth.
“It’s just kind of disappointing that the state won’t take care of us,” he said. “I mean, this is their problem.”
BOSTON – A young boy undergoing cancer treatment at a Boston hospital got a big surprise when he was greeted by actor Ryan Reynolds.
The “Deadpool and Wolverine” star surprised 8-year-old Nash on Friday at Mass General Hospital for Children, where he’s being treated for a rare form of cancer.
It all started when Nash’s mother sent Reynolds a picture of her son’s radiation mask, which is decorated to look like Reynolds’ superhero alter ego, Deadpool. Reynolds replied he’d love to meet Nash in Boston. The whole visit was a surprise.
Reynolds signed Nash’s mask and even did a Facetime call with his “Deadpool and Wolverine” co-star Hugh Jackman, so he could talk to Nash too.
Reynolds wrote about the meeting on X (formerly Twitter) and said, “Wish every kid needing treatment got it here. And I wish every parent with a sick kid could put their kid in hands this capable. Nash, you’re the best. Love you, pal.”
Vice President Kamala Harris has accepted CNN’s invitation for a possible second debate and has challenged former President Donald Trump to join her.
Harris campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon said in a statement Saturday that the Democratic nominee is “ready for another opportunity to share a stage with Donald Trump” and accepted the network’s invitation to a debate on Oct. 23.
“The American people deserve another opportunity to see Vice President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump debate before they cast their ballots,” O’Malley Dillon said.
In a separate statement posted on X, Harris called on Trump to join her on the debate stage.
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The Harris campaign was quick to call for a second debate between the two nominees shortly after their Sept. 10 meeting on ABC wrapped. Trump has said he won’t do another one after participating in a CNN debate against President Biden in June.
“Donald Trump should have no problem agreeing to this debate,” O’Malley Dillon said. “It is the same format and setup as the CNN debate he attended and said he won in June, when he praised CNN’s moderators, rules, and ratings.”
Trump has not publicly commented on CNN’s invitation for the October debate. CBS News reached out to the Trump campaign for comment.
CNN reported the debate would mirror the one between Trump and Biden and it would also take place in Atlanta.
Mr. Biden’s poor performance in the June debate led to weeks of calls for him to drop out of the race. On July 23, the president stepped aside in his reelection bid and endorsed Harris.
Meanwhile, the vice presidential contenders – Gov. Tim Walz and Sen. JD Vance – are scheduled to participate in their own debate hosted by CBS News on Oct. 1.
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