A full Saturday runs past a hundred games, which is more than any screen should try to show. The board is built around the AP Top 25 instead: ranked matchups, your own teams first, and the conference tables in between.
A Saturday is too big to show in full, so the Smart Scoreboard is built around rank instead: the ranked games lead, your teams lead them, and the rest stays out of the way.
The Smart Scoreboard fits up to eight games on a slide, and college football is the reason it is never set to “every game” — a full Saturday runs past a hundred. The scopes are Notable (ranked matchups only), My teams & notable, and My teams. Live games lead, then finals, then kickoffs to come, and the teams you follow sort ahead of the whole board.
All league guidesFull-screen game cards for the teams you follow carry an AP Top 25 rank chip on each ranked side, so you can see at a glance that it is a top-ten game and not a tune-up. On live and finished games the card also breaks the score out quarter by quarter, overtime included, under the main line.
See a game cardStandings slides cover all eleven FBS conferences, each ranked by conference record first and overall record second, with a Conf column beside the overall one. The AP Top 25 gets its own table alongside them, and it refreshes when the new poll lands — weekly, on Sunday afternoons, during the season.
College basketball guidePick a scope, pick a window, and decide whether the board belongs to your team or to the whole Top 25. Those three choices are the entire setup.
There is one setting here that does not exist anywhere else in the app: Follow the Top 25, labelled NCAAF: Top 25 + my teams only in the control panel. Switch it on and every ranked team’s game reaches the screen even if you follow none of the teams in it — useful in September, when the team you actually care about is playing at eleven in the morning and you want the rest of the day on the wall anyway. Your own teams still come first, the ranked games fill in behind them, and unranked games that aren’t your teams stay off the screen.
Scores refresh while games are live, typically within a minute of the action, and everything above is changed from your phone while the big screen keeps cycling. Presets let you keep a Saturday board and a weekday board and swap between them in one tap.
Twelve hours of football is the longest day the board ever works, which makes the screen you choose worth a minute of thought.
Rank chips, scores and clocks read cleanly from ten feet away, so a wall-mounted TV running the Top 25 board beside the game you are watching covers the whole slate. Install from Google Play, approve a short code from your phone, and it signs itself in — the Android TV setup guide has the three steps.
Close up, the full-screen game card is the better view: one game, the quarter-by-quarter line under the score, and the rank chips beside the crests. Nothing to install on an iPad — open the site in Safari and add it to the home screen, as the iPad setup guide describes.
On any screen, TickrDash asks the device to keep it awake while the ticker is showing, so a board that starts at noon is still up at midnight. Any browser tab works too, which is the zero-setup option on a laptop or a spare monitor.
Yes — that is what the Follow the Top 25 setting is for. With it on, every ranked team’s game reaches the screen whether or not it is one of your teams, and the Notable board scope does the same thing for the Smart Scoreboard. Turn the setting off again and you are back to your usual team filter.
FBS: all eleven FBS conferences, and every FBS team in them. Games against FCS opponents do appear, because one of the two sides is an FBS team — what you will not find is an FCS-only matchup, or an FCS conference table. The standings slides are the eleven FBS conference tables plus the AP Top 25.
Weekly. The AP Top 25 is published on Sunday afternoon during the season, so the rank chips on the game cards and the Top 25 standings table both carry that poll’s numbers until the next one lands. Between polls the ranks do not move, however the games go — which is worth remembering on a Saturday full of upsets.
Also following the pros? The NFL scoreboard guide covers the Sunday board and the live field-position strip, and the college basketball guide picks the season up in November with the men’s and women’s boards. Everything with a guide is listed on the league hub.
TickrDash is not affiliated with or endorsed by the NCAA or any conference. School and conference names are used only to describe what the app shows.
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