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Alabama and Michigan will meet for a spot in the last national championship game in the four-team era of the College Football Playoff on Jan. 1.
The iconic Rose Bowl stage in Pasadena, Calif., will host to the game. It’s the sixth time the Crimson Tide has met the Wolverines (3-2).
ESPN’s Chris Fowler Kirk Herbstreit, Laura Rutledge and Holly Rowe will be on the broadcast for the 4 p.m. CT. kickoff.
On the Crimson Tide Sports Network, it’ll be Chris Stewart, Tyler Watts and Roger Hoover. Eli Gold hasn’t traveled with the team this season, only calling home games. (He did call the Birmingham Bowl on Friday, Dec. 23.) For Michigan’s cast, it’ll be Doug Karsch, Jon Jansen and Jason Avant.
Alabama will hold its first open practices in nearly one year (Sugar Bowl against Kansas State), with media getting a “limited viewing period at the beginning” of a session on Thursday, Dec. 28 and Saturday, Dec. 30. Typically, UA Athletics releases an edited clip of practices from Tuscaloosa which are closed otherwise.
–Alabama will also put both its head coordinators in front of a microphone for the first time since the preseason as Tommy Rees and Kevin Steele are scheduled to discuss the matchup against No. 1 Michigan.
Alabama redshirt freshman offensive tackle Elijah Pritchett is listed as a backup on the team’s depth chart.
On Dec. 20, Pritchett was arrested in Tuscaloosa for knowingly transmitting an STD. Pritchett posted bail. UA has not made a public comment on Pritchett’s availability.
Alabama is 5-1-1 in Rose Bowl games, lastly winning the 2020 matchup in Texas over Notre Dame due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Current UA players reminisced about Alabama’s 2009 Rose Bowl win over Texas earlier this week:
“It’s kind of a thing when Mark Ingram scored and kind of put his gloves up like that, I went to practice the next day and every time I scored, I would do the same thing every single time I scored.
I definitely remember that, and it’s going to be fun playing there,” senior Malachi Moore said.