About Fan Watch

know what to root for

Est. 2026

Fan-built

Pick your team. Every week, Fan Watch tells you what to put on, who to pull for, and exactly why — in plain English.

What this is

College football Saturdays are a coordination problem: fifty games, four TVs' worth of kickoff windows, and somewhere in there, three outcomes that actually change your team's season. Fan Watch solves it with math and then talks to you like a friend who already did it: a tiered rooting guide, a watch plan by kickoff wave, conference races, the CFP picture, and a schedule you can make your own.

How the math works

Every week we run 50,000 Monte Carlo simulations of the rest of the season: Elo-based win probabilities, real conference tiebreaker rules (yes, including the weird ones), conference championship games, and the 12-team CFP format, anchored to the live committee rankings. Every “root for X” is the difference between two conditional probabilities, shown only when it clears statistical noise. The engine replayed the entire 2025 season blind and called all 9 conference championship matchups and all 12 playoff teams correctly.

How we make money (the honest part)

Some links to streaming services are affiliate links — if you subscribe after clicking one, Fan Watch may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Two rules keep that honest:

The math is never for sale. Coverage numbers on the how-to-watch pages rank services by what they actually carry — services with no affiliate program (hi, YouTube TV) rank first whenever they earn it.
Options, not tricks. Games on broadcast TV are always labeled “free over the air locally” before any paid option is offered.

Who builds it

Fan Watch is an independent, fan-built project — not affiliated with the NCAA, any conference, school, or network. Game data comes from CollegeFootballData.com. Questions, corrections, or a tiebreaker rule we got wrong? jusdrum@gmail.com.