{"id":6259,"date":"2016-08-30T10:21:39","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T15:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/net1.webarc.site\/?p=6189"},"modified":"2021-01-05T15:53:58","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T20:53:58","slug":"fresh-look-college-football-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/network1consulting.com\/fresh-look-college-football-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Tip: Fresh Look at College Football Apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/tonyrushin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tony Rushin<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-6193\" src=\"https:\/\/network1consulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/field-sport-ball-america-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"College Football\" width=\"266\" height=\"177\" \/>College football. I can smell it in the air. Growing up as the youngest of 4 boys and with a Dad who was a high school football coach, I was destined to love football. Literally since the day I was born, football impacted my life: I was born on Friday, September 9<sup>th<\/sup> \u2013 poor planning by Mom since Dad couldn\u2019t get to the hospital until after the game (at least that\u2019s the family legend).<\/p>\n<p>As we\u2019ve been counting down to the 2016 college football season \u2013 and my Tuesday Tip deadline \u2013 I realized that I\u2019ve been in a rut with ESPN and Bleacher Report TEAMStream as my main sports apps. Surely there had to be some great college football iPhone apps waiting for me to discover them \u2013 right?<\/p>\n<p>I waded through some of the good, bad and ugly and quickly found two themes:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Did I want news\/scores\/updates or did I want radio (the answer, of course, was both)<\/li>\n<li>You get what you pay for (yeah; learned that for the 10,473<sup>rd<\/sup> time in my life)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong><u>News\/Scores\/Updates<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Three apps made my short list: theScore, College Football Scoreboard and Gridiron 2016. After I read the reviews of each I decided not to test out theScore: looks like it has a lot of ads and one person complained about getting spam messages. No thanks. Here are my preliminary summaries of the other two apps.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6190\" src=\"https:\/\/network1consulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/College-Football-Scoreboard-app.png\" alt=\"College Football Scoreboard app\" width=\"84\" height=\"85\" \/>College Football Scoreboard<\/strong>. This is a free app and it looks interesting. You can choose your favorite teams (for me it\u2019s Penn State, Pitt, Auburn, Georgia Tech and Georgia State) and get game day alerts \u2013 nothing fancy there. I noticed that the app crashed (shut down) several times \u2013 hopefully that\u2019s an easy bug for them to fix. What I liked about this app is the depth and breadth of the content: it had about 20 times more information on Penn State than Bleacher Report had.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6191\" src=\"https:\/\/network1consulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Gridiron-2016-app.png\" alt=\"Gridiron 2016 app\" width=\"82\" height=\"83\" \/>Gridiron 2016<\/strong>. This app costs a whopping $1.99 (I hope the sarcasm came through). This is the 8<sup>th<\/sup> season for this app and the rave reviews (even though there weren\u2019t a ton of them) have me excited to use it. Unfortunately, you can\u2019t pick any favorite teams. What you do get is complete schedules by team, including up-to-the-minute each week when TV is setting their kickoff times. When you\u2019re viewing any team\u2019s schedule you can click on an opponent and it takes you to their schedule. You can also see last year\u2019s results by team \u2013 in case you need a reminder. This looks like an app that I\u2019ll appreciate more and more as the season progresses.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Radio Broadcasts<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two apps made my short list: Football Radio 2016: Pro &amp; College Football (free) and GameDay College Football Radio ($0.99). I loaded both apps but since I was \u00a0only able to successfully open Football Radio 2016 once out of 10 tries, my review is easy.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6192\" src=\"https:\/\/network1consulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/GameDay-College-Football-Radio-app.png\" alt=\"GameDay College Football Radio app\" width=\"93\" height=\"94\" \/>GameDay College Football Radio<\/strong>. This app has a simple interface and you can quickly get to the school you want. It does have favorites but, at least in my initial attempt, I couldn\u2019t get it to work. I\u2019m excited about this app because I\u2019m too cheap to buy the Big 10 football package so this will let me at least hear the Penn State football games that aren\u2019t carried on national television.<\/p>\n<p>And, as an added bonus, if you\u2019re ever in a bar with lots of TV screens and\u00a0 you can\u2019t hear one of the games that you\u2019re watching, you can download <a href=\"https:\/\/network1consulting.com\/tuesday-tip-turn-up-the-volume\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tunity<\/a>, the app that Kate wrote about a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sure I\u2019ll learn more about these apps once we get into the thick of the season. I\u2019d love to hear from you: what\u2019s your favorite college football app?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: block; cursor: pointer; top: 84px; left: 471px;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Tony Rushin College football. I can smell it in the air. Growing up as the youngest of 4 boys and with a Dad who was a high school football coach, I was destined to love football. 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