The College Football Playoff will continue to be broadcast on ESPN through the 2031-32 season, according to an agreement between the broadcast network and the CFP.

ESPN will expand its current package for the final two years (through the 2025-26 season), adding all four of the new first-round games each year to ESPN’s existing New Year’s Six (now quarterfinals and semifinals) and the CFP national championship rights in the new 12-team playoff that will launch in the fall.

Yahoo! Sports reports the six-year extension pays $1.3 billion on average a year.

ESPN also has secured a six-year agreement – beginning in the 2026-27 season – for the CFP, which includes exclusive rights to all rounds of the expanded playoff, as well as continued exclusive rights to all ancillary programming connected to the playoff, such as the CFP Selection Show, weekly Top 25 Rankings Shows and more.

“We are delighted to continue our long-standing relationship with ESPN,” CFP Executive Director Bill Hancock said in a statement. “It’s a significant day for the CFP and for the future of college football. The depth of coverage that ESPN gives to the sport throughout the season is second to none. There is no better platform to showcase this iconic championship as we move into the new 12-team format because ESPN’s people love college football every bit as much as we all do.”

In both the amended two-year agreement and new six-year extension, the CFP provides ESPN with the right to sublicense a select number of games.

“ESPN has worked very closely with the College Football Playoff over the past decade to build one of the most prominent events in American sports,” ESPN Chairman Jimmy Pitaro said. “We look forward to enhancing our valued relationship over the next two years, and then continuing it for six more as we embark on this new, expanded playoff era. This agreement further solidifies ESPN as the home of college football, as well as the destination for the vast majority of major college championships for the next eight years.”

Starting in the 2026-27 season, ESPN will broadcast the CFP national championship on ABC. The MegaCast presentation will continue across ESPN platforms.

The agreement with the CFP marks ESPN’s second significant college sports media rights extension in 2024, following the eight-year deal with the NCAA announced in January, which encompasses exclusive rights to 40 NCAA Championship events.

ESPN now boasts the exclusive domestic rights to every major college championship outside of men’s basketball, and international rights to all major college championships.