The 2024-25 NFL season kicks off Thursday night with the Baltimore Ravens traveling to take on the defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium.

The game will air on NBC, so fans with a basic cable plan will be able to watch it, however if you are looking to watch out-of-market games throughout the NFL season, NFL Sunday Ticket is your best bet.

NFL Sunday Ticket is a sports broadcast package that shows all out-of-market regular season Sunday NFL games not available on your local NBC, CBS or FOX affiliates. The service is offered exclusively through YouTube TV.

Since launching in 1984, the package had previously been delivered by satellite service DirecTV. Google, which owns YouTube and the YouTube TV live streaming service, won the rights to the package in December 2022 by outbidding Amazon and ESPN and paying about $2 billion annually over seven years, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Here's what to know about the prices for each type of Sunday Ticket package, plus a few discounts to help you save this football season.

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NFL Sunday Ticket price breakdown

You have options if you are looking to get NFL Sunday Ticket. Those options include:

• NFL Sunday Ticket with YouTube TV: The price for NFL Sunday Ticket and a YouTube TV subscription is currently four payments of $158.99 per month, a total of $635.96. After those four months, you'll be charged $72.99 per month for YouTube TV's base plan. You can also add NFL RedZone for $10.99 per month, a total of $43.96 for the season.
• NFL Sunday Ticket without YouTube TV: The price to watch NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube is four payments of $119.75, a total of $479 for the season. You can also add NFL RedZone for $10 per month, a total of $40 for the season.

Sunday Ticket deals and discounts

• YouTube TV promo code: The first 25,000 fans who use code TICKET50 on or before Thursday, Sept. 5 get $50 off Sunday Ticket.
• Verizon's NFL Sunday Ticket free offer and discounts: New mobile and home internet customers, and existing subscribers who make certain upgrades, can get NFL Sunday Ticket for free. But the deal for home internet customers ends Thursday, Aug. 29; the mobile offer ends Sept. 11. Also: Current customers can get $100 off either NFL Sunday Ticket or NFL Sunday Ticket with NFL RedZone, bringing the season-long price to $349 or $389.
• Three-week free trial from FanDuel: New users who bet $5 on FanDuel get a three-week free trial for NFL Sunday Ticket from YouTube and YouTube TV (offer good until Sept. 22; once you make the bet, you will get a promo code to use on YouTube for the next three weeks). After your trial ends, the full price of NFL Sunday Ticket will be automatically charged seasonally unless you cancel. And new FanDuel customers who make their first $5 bet will also get $200 in bonus bets.

Is there a student discount for NFL Sunday Ticket?

The package usually costs $479, but students can get NFL Sunday Ticket for $199 – and they can add NFL RedZone for $10.

The discount is good for students attending colleges or universities and they can sign up on YouTube's NFL Sunday Ticket website. 

Students can sign up for NFL Sunday Ticket Student Plan for $199 on the YouTube site. YouTube suggests using a personal email address to set up NFL Sunday Ticket (you watch via the NFL page on YouTube) because some university networks place restrictions on .edu accounts.

Once there, you will choose choose either to subscribe to NFL Sunday Ticket ($199) or NFL Sunday Ticket with NFL RedZone ($209). The RedZone channel, hosted by Scott Hanson, tracks big plays during Sunday games over seven hours live and may show up to 8 games simultaneously via the famous "Octobox."

Then, students will be directed to the SheerID site to verify student status. After that, students will need to supply a form of payment.

NFL Sunday Ticket to include new features this season

NFL Sunday Ticket subscribers on YouTube and YouTube TV can expect some new features this upcoming regular season, including one that could help them win their fantasy football leagues.

Sunday Ticket subscribers will be able to watch the games differently than they did a year ago due to the inclusion of a new "Fantasy View" partner, deeper fantasy integrations and multi-view improvements, according to a blog shared by YouTube.

"This year, you’ll see an even more personalized gameday experience for each and every fan," the blog says. "We’re excited to share the latest of many features coming your way this fall."

Additionally, YouTube has improved the multiview feature by allowing subscribers to build any available combination of two, three, or four NFL Sunday Ticket games, according to the blog.

YouTube TV Base Plan members will also have the option to find their desired multiview streams with their local NFL games through select stations.

Contributing: Jonathan Limehouse, USA TODAY

Gabe Hauari is a national trending news reporter at USA TODAY. You can follow him on X @GabeHauari or email him at [email protected].