Millions of people tuned in to watch Alabama and Clemson play an absolutely thrilling National Championship game on Monday night.
But even with all those people watching these young adults play their hearts out on the field, as well as the ads that rolled across their television screens, how many players got paid for their performance during the big game?
But hey, pretty much everyone else associated with the game did.
ESPN, who agreed to pay $5.64 billion over 12 years to get the broadcasting rights for the College Football Playoff, used the opportunity to have wall-to-wall coverage of the game on a number of their channels and online platforms to get a return on that investment. If ESPN 8 "The Ocho" existed, they would undoubtedly have had some coverage there, too.
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