YouTube TV lost key channels, but college football fans can still watch games free all weekend with this streaming alternative.

Usually, ESPN announces the Monday Night Football ratings on Wednesday. This week, with YouTube TV customers prevented from watching Cardinals-Cowboys, ESPN may "forget" to post the numbers. The outage blacked out the Week 9 prime-time game for millions. And it will be interesting to see what the audience ultimately was.

Other streaming services certainly benefitted with an influx of new subscribers as fans of teams in the ACC, Big 12 and SEC playing on ESPN, ESPN2 and the conference’s networks couldn’t watch the games. YouTube TV has roughly 10 million subscribers as customers have ditched linear cable in favor of streaming to watch television networks.

Fans' ability to watch OU football vs Tennessee may be impacted by ABC/ESPN's contract dispute with YouTube TV.

YouTube TV viewers can no longer see Disney channels including ABC and ESPN after the two sides failed to agree on a new content distribution deal.

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.