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How to Watch SELA vs Mizzou on Saturday

Updated Sept 1, 10am: On Saturday, Sept 1 at 6pm CDT, Mizzou opens its inaugural SEC football season against the Southeastern Louisiana Lions. Ticket 4-packs for the game are still available for $100 (1-800-CAT-PAWS). If you can't make it out to Columbia for the game, you’d probably like to watch it on TV, but where is it showing? Can you watch it at home or do you need to pack up and head to the local watering hole?  I’ll start with the most convenient method—but this one will cost you.  Here is a list of the PPV outlets for Saturday’s game.

Maybe you don’t want to pay $40 to watch a blowout—that’s understandable. Your remaining options aren't as handy, but considerably less expensive. If you check the ESPN listing for the game, it’s scheduled to be available on ESPN3. So if you have ESPN3 like 73 million other Americans, case closed, right?  Yes, if you live outside of Missouri*.

Let’s suppose the game is not available on ESPN3. It should be available on WatchESPN. To get WatchESPN, you need to be subscribed to one of the following: Time Warner Cable, Bright House Networks, Verizon FiOS TV and Comcast Xfinity TV. If you have one of these Cable providers and like sports, you should check out the WatchESPN app. As a Time Warner customer, I’ve had good experiences with WatchESPN from Android phone and iPad.

So you’d prefer to watch on your big LCD rather than your laptop screen? You are really high maintenance and probably put fruit in your beer.  If you have an iPad, I’d suggest hitting the Apple store and picking up an iPad to HDMI adapter. It works with iPhone, iPod as well. There is a similar adapter (see how I avoided saying ‘dongle’?) for Android phones to provide HDMI-out capability. Now scavenge an HDMI cable from your Xbox and connect from the adapter to any available HDMI port on your TV.

*It has been confirmed ESPN3 will be blacked out in Missouri for this game, so you'll need to identify a workaround. Some will utilize a VPN on their PC or iDevice, which many in China use to bypass the censorship of their oppressive regime, but I'll stop short of recommending that.

One more great option--Alumni Association watch parties. Here's a list of locations. Go rub elbows with some fellow Tiger fans.

Good luck with your game day viewing. Please comment here if you learn more about programming for the game or other tech tips and I’ll share the information.