Amazon / Sports / COLLEGE FOOTBALL SCOREBOARD PLUS
REVIEW
College Football Scoreboard Plus is a Saturday utility that knows what it is.
An unofficial NCAA scoreboard with no audio, no replays, and no pretense — just live scores, schedules, and rankings refreshed often enough to settle a bet.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 11, 2026 · 3 MIN READ
College Football Scoreboard Plus
SMARTPHONES TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
OUR SCORE
6.4
AMAZON
★ 3.8
PRICE
$0.99
The college football audience on a Fire tablet is small, specific, and badly served. ESPN’s app wants you to log in. CBS Sports wants a Paramount+ trial. Yahoo Sports is a portal first and a scoreboard second. The official NCAA app exists but updates the FBS scoreboard with the urgency of a press release.
Scoreboard Plus solves that by not trying to be anything else. Open it on a Saturday at noon Eastern and the entire FBS slate is on one screen, sorted by start time, scores refreshing on a 30-to-60-second cycle. Tap through to a box score, tap back, watch the SEC night game tick over to a final.
It does one thing on Saturday afternoon and then disappears for the rest of the week, which is exactly the deal you signed up for.
It does one thing on Saturday afternoon and then disappears for the rest of the week, which is exactly the deal you signed up for.
FEATURES
Scoreboard Plus is a thin, ad-supported live-scores reader for FBS college football, sideloaded onto Fire tablets from the Amazon Appstore. The home screen is a single scrolling list of the day's games with team abbreviations, current score, quarter, and clock. Tap a game and you get a box score, drive summary, and team stats — passing yards, rushing yards, turnovers, time of possession. Nothing fancy, nothing that wasn't on a Saturday afternoon TV ticker in 2010.
Beyond the live board the app carries an AP Top 25, a Coaches Poll, a College Football Playoff committee ranking when the season reaches November, full season schedules per team, and a conference standings table. Schedules go a full year out. Notifications can be toggled per team — game-start, score change, final. It is unofficial, carries no NCAA branding, and pulls its data from a third-party feed that occasionally lags a play or two behind a live broadcast.
There is no audio. No video. No play-by-play radio. The "Plus" in the name refers to the rankings and schedule modules over and above a bare scoreboard — not a paid tier.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
The app does the one thing a Saturday college football fan actually wants from a tablet propped next to the couch: it shows every score on every field at the same time, refreshing on its own, without making you scroll through a Yahoo or ESPN portal stuffed with NFL, NBA, and "trending" cards. The conference-filtered view is the right idea — flip to SEC, see eight games at once, flip to Big Ten, see eight more.
Notifications are tuned correctly. Final-score pings arrive within a minute of the game ending, score-change pings come for the upset you didn't watch. The schedule module is unusually deep for a free app: you can pull up Week 3 of next season today if you want to know whether your team plays a cupcake on parents' weekend.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
The interface is firmly stuck in the Fire HD 8 era. Tiny tap targets, low-contrast greys, list rows that don't scale on the larger Fire HD 10, and ad banners that occasionally cover the bottom row of scores until you scroll. The data feed is not the fastest — during a tight fourth quarter the score on the app can trail the broadcast by 30 to 60 seconds, which is the wrong direction of latency for anyone watching with money on the game.
And it is unofficial. No officiating notes, no injury reports, no betting lines, no recruiting news. The newer ESPN and CBS Sports apps on Fire tablets do all of that plus live video for subscribers, and they update faster.
CONCLUSION
Scoreboard Plus is the right app for someone who already has the game on TV, already follows their team's schedule by memory, and just wants a quiet second screen that aggregates the other thirty games on a Saturday. As a primary college football app it is outclassed; as a free utility on a Fire tablet that already lives on the kitchen counter, it earns its install.