The new agreements with ESPN, modify terms of the remaining two years of the current contract to take into account expansion from four to 12 teams, starting with the upcoming season.
Alabama finishes the season at 12-2 after winning the SEC Championship nearly a month ago.
Alabama is seeking its seventh college football title under coach Nick Saban and has been victorious in the semifinal in six of seven CFP appearances.
Alabama is covering every angle when it comes to preparing for its College Football Playoff semifinal game against Michigan, including protecting against sign stealing by the Wolverines.
Ohio State, Georgia, Michigan and Florida State sat atop the season’s first College Football Playoff rankings, with Alabama at No. 8, the same spot it has in this week’s AP Top 25 College Football Poll.
After the best semifinal day in the nine-year history of the College Football Playoff, the title game will match the defending national champion against the closest thing the sport has had in years to a Cinderella team.
Tennessee, Ohio State, Georgia and Clemson are the top four teams in the first College Football Playoff rankings, with Alabama ranked 6th.
There are still issues to be hammered out by conference commissioners who comprise the CFP management committee.
Georgia earned a rematch with Southeastern Conference nemesis Alabama in the title game on Jan. 10 in Indianapolis.
The College Football Playoff is set: Cincinnati will play Alabama in the Cotton Bowl and Michigan will face Georgia in the Orange Bowl on New Year’s Eve.
