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With Disney and YouTube still at an impasse, here are your options for watching BYU-Texas Tech

The feud between Disney and YouTube TV has stretched out for a week.
All Disney-owned channels, including ESPN, were pulled from the streaming service when the companies’ contract ended at 11:59 p.m. ET on Oct. 30.
As a result, consumers have had to scramble for alternative options to watch Disney-owned channels, including sports fans wanting to watch games on ABC and ESPN.
A week before the contract’s expiration, the YouTube Official Blog wrote, “Disney is proposing costly economic terms that would raise prices on YouTube TV customers and give our customers fewer choices, while benefiting Disney’s own live TV products — like Hulu + Live TV and, soon, Fubo.”
ESPN released its own statement roughly an hour before the channels were pulled.
“With a $3 trillion market cap, Google is using its market dominance to eliminate competition and undercut the industry-standard terms we’ve successfully negotiated with every other distributor,” it said.
ESPN added that it was “committed to working toward a resolution as quickly as possible.”
The removal of the channels also meant that YouTube TV consumers were unable to follow election coverage Tuesday on ABC.
In a statement to USA Today on Monday, Disney said it had “asked YouTube TV to restore ABC for Election Day so subscribers have access to the information they rely on.”
YouTube TV responded, saying that only returning the channels for one day could “cause customer confusion among those who may briefly see ABC on YouTube TV only to lose it again shortly after.”
Instead, it proposed that ABC and ESPN be restored immediately during negotiations because “those are the channels that people want.”
It said the channels could be restored within hours if Disney gave its approval.
“More importantly, let’s get a fair deal done so we can get back to providing our mutual customers with the content they want,” the YouTube statement said.
How to watch BYU-Texas Tech
The feud has heavily impacted football fans.
Locally, BYU fans will face the same dilemma Utah fans experienced last week when it comes to watching Saturday’s game against Texas Tech. ESPN’s “College Gameday” visited Salt Lake City last week and will be in Lubbock, Texas, this week. Utah played on ESPN, and BYU will play on ABC.
Utah is on a bye this week, but its next game, against Baylor, will be on ESPN2.
Here are a few options to watch BYU-Texas Tech and ESPN’s “College GameDay.

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