ESPN College Extra was an American multinationalout-of-market sports package owned byESPN Inc. It was launched on September 5, 2015, as a merger of the existingESPN Full Court andESPN GamePlan, each of which offeredcollege basketball andcollege football broadcasts respectively, and closed down on August 15, 2023.
ESPN College Extra broadcasts were drawn from the available live games fromESPN3. ESPN College Extra broadcast college sports fromNCAA FBS andFCS conferences, including football, basketball, baseball, and softball,[1] across eight channels.[2]
ESPN College Extra was announced by ESPN, Inc. on August 28, 2015, with launch date and its schedule.[3] College Extra started broadcasting on September 5, 2015, at 12:30 p.m. with the Wofford vs. Clemson football game. At launch, the package was available onAT&T U-verse,Bright House Networks,Cox,DirecTV,Time Warner Cable,Verizon Fios, and select NCTC members.[1] After its rights had transitioned toESPN+ and the wireline channel was from the lineups of providers such as Verizon Fios,Spectrum, andHulu in the preceding years, ESPN College Extrade facto shut down on June 30, 2023 (the final day of the 2022–23 NCAAacademic year), and contractually ended on August 15, 2023.[4]
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