The College Sports App That Lives in Your Browser

What is Varsity Slate?

Varsity Slate is a college sports tracker built for people who follow more than one team. Instead of installing a separate app for every school, you choose the schools you care about and Varsity Slate lines up every game — start times, live scores, final results, and TV networks — on a single scoreboard-style schedule. Coverage spans NCAA programs in football, basketball, baseball, softball, and volleyball, with schedules that re-sync automatically throughout the day. You can browse the full games slate or search every school without signing in; a free account exists so the app can remember your teams. Because Varsity Slate is a website, it works the same on an iPhone, an Android phone, and a laptop.

Is Varsity Slate free?

Browsing Varsity Slate is completely free and requires no account: schedules, live scores, standings, and rankings are open to everyone. A free account lets you save one school and one sport as your personal slate, and it includes per-team and per-school calendar feeds at no cost. If you follow more schools, the Teammate tier covers five schools for $4.99 per month or $29.99 per year. Head Coach, at $49.99 per year, removes the school limit entirely — built for athletic-department staff, superfans, and families with athletes at several schools. Nothing is paywalled just to check a score: free browsing is the product, not a trial. You can compare every plan side by side on the pricing page.

Which sports and schools does it cover?

Varsity Slate fully covers six NCAA sports: college football, men's basketball, women's basketball, baseball, softball, and volleyball. Full coverage means real schedules, live scores, and final results for every Division I program in each sport — not just ranked teams or one featured conference. The catalog spans 934 NCAA schools, from Power-4 giants down to one-bid mid-majors, so a North Dakota State football fan or a Wofford basketball fan gets the same treatment as an Alabama fan. Every school has its own page with per-sport schedules, records, and conference standings — start at the schools directory.

How do I follow multiple college teams in one place?

Create a free account, follow a school, and pick its sports — Varsity Slate merges every game into one chronological slate, so all of your teams' scores live in one place instead of five apps and three bookmarked athletics sites. A typical fall Saturday might stack a volleyball tri-match at noon, a football kickoff at 3:30, and a late West Coast basketball exhibition; the slate keeps them in time order with a live score on each row. The free tier follows one school, and the Teammate tier raises that to five — which fits the real-world mix of an alma mater, a spouse's school, and the school where your kid plays. Guests are never locked out: the games page shows the national slate by sport and date with no sign-in.

Do I need to download an app?

No. Varsity Slate is a progressive web app (PWA), so the full experience runs in the browser you already have — Safari on iPhone, Chrome on Android, anything on a computer. There is no App Store or Google Play download, no install size, and no forced update. If you want an icon on your phone, use your browser's "Add to Home Screen" and Varsity Slate opens full-screen like a native app. And because it is the open web, you can check a score with no app at all: land on a game page, read the score, leave. No account is required for any of that — sign-in exists only to save schools, alerts, and calendar feeds.

How live are the scores?

During games, Varsity Slate refreshes live scores about every 30 seconds. Between games, schedules re-sync automatically throughout the day, so postponements, TV assignments, and start-time changes flow through on their own. Each game page shows the current score, period or inning, venue, and the TV network carrying the broadcast when one is listed. If you are picking one screen to leave open on a Saturday, the live games slate works as a college scoreboard app across every covered sport at once — scores for football and basketball also have dedicated pages.

Does it sync with my calendar?

Yes. Every team and every school has an ICS calendar feed that plugs into Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, or Outlook and updates itself as schedules change — included on the free tier. Creating a feed requires a free account, since feeds are tied to your slate. A single combined feed covering everything you follow is coming soon. The full setup guide lives at college sports calendar sync.

How does it work?

1. 1.Pick your schools — Search the schools directory and follow the ones you care about, then toggle the sports you want per school.
2. 2.See your slate — Your games slate lines up everything chronologically — upcoming games, live scores, and final results in one list.
3. 3.Subscribe and get alerts — Add a calendar feed so games appear in Google or Apple Calendar automatically, and turn on alerts for game start and final scores.

How does it compare to the ESPN app and theScore?

Honestly: they are different tools. ESPN's app is the best all-sports companion — pro leagues, video highlights, and national news in one place. theScore is excellent for pro coverage with deep betting integration. Varsity Slate does one job those apps treat as a side feature: every college team you follow, across schools and across six sports, on a single slate.

Want the longer version, including when ESPN is the better choice? Read the ESPN app alternative breakdown.

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