YouTube TV customers are now entering Week 2 without being able to watch their favorite live sports — including both big-time college football and the NFL’s Monday Night Football — on ABC and ESPN channels amid an ongoing and bitter carriage between Disney and Google’s popular streaming service.

While "College GameDay" was not shown on YouTube TV, Pat McAfee, who has excited college football fans since joining the show as an analyst in 2022, streamed the entire three-hour broadcast on his X account.

A contract dispute between Google and Disney wiped out college football games on ESPN and ABC for millions of YouTube TV subscribers and now it threatens the Cowboys' Monday Night Football game.

You can tell that the people at TNT are having a fun time watching ESPN destroy what little goodwill they have with fans. For those that haven't been following, YouTube TV axed all ESPN and ABC programming from their subscription service after failing to agree to a new deal with the Disney-owned

YouTube TV and Disney are negotiating a renewed distribution agreement, and if a deal—or an extension of talks—isn’t agreed to by Friday, ESPN and ABC would likely go dark on the platform. Alternatively,

The current mess battle between YouTube TV and the Walt Disney Co. provides an opportunity to rethink having paid live television.