As a part of a feature drop-like announcement last week for upcoming features to the NFL experience on YouTube and YouTube TV, Google said it would soon offer a student plan for NFL Sunday Ticket.
Well, if you are a student enrolled in an accredited college or university, its all good news, as you can now save hundreds on Sunday Ticket over everyone else.
It is $109 for the entire season, and you can bundle it with NFL RedZone for $10 more.
Requirements to sign up:
• 18+ years old.
• Be enrolled as a student at an accredited college or university.
• Be verified as a student by SheerID.
To sign up, head to the youtube.com/NFL page, tap the “Get NFL Sunday Ticket” button, and then look for an option labeled “Eligible students can save with a student plan”. It’ll go live shortly.
Once subscribed, access your plan and games through YouTube as a YouTube Primetime channel.
YouTube also announced that they will offer the option for individuals who have already purchased NFL Sunday Ticket to switch to the student plan by contacting support.
The student plan is not the same as the non-student plan.
Here is what you get with the package:
• Watch regular season Sunday afternoon games carried on CBS and FOX on the channels unavailable in your local area. If you’re a New England Patriots fan living in Chicago, you can watch all the Sunday “Pats” games not shown on networks in your local market.
• Preseason games, postseason games, and locally and nationally broadcast games are not a part of the NFL Sunday Ticket.
• Student Plans do not include family sharing and allow only one signed-in device and one concurrent stream at a time.
Google explains that this plan is only “intended for individual students,” and not an entire family. For multi-stream action, you will have to pay for the full service.
For comparison, an NFL Sunday Ticket for non-students costs at least $399, a promotional price for this first year, and if you want RedZone added, you’ll then pay $439.
For students often on a strict budget, you are looking at $290 in savings for Sunday Ticket, with even more if you want RedZone.
The NFL Sunday Ticket landscape has shifted and evolved since YouTube TV took over the football package from DirecTV.
In 2022, YouTube TV surprisingly won the bidding war for the exclusive rights to NFL Sunday Ticket.
