The 2025 College Football Playoff National Championship is the upcoming college football bowl game scheduled to be played on January 20, 2025, at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia. The eleventh College Football Playoff National Championship will determine the national champion of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) for the 2024 season. It will be the final game of the 2024–25 College Football Playoff (CFP), the first CFP National Championship under the 12-team format, and, aside from any all-star games afterward, the culminating game of the 2024–25 bowl season. It will be televised nationally by ESPN.
Background
Host selection
On January 7, 2022, the NCAA originally awarded the rights to host the 2025 championship to Allegiant Stadium in Paradise, Nevada. However, due to a conflict with the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which cannot be moved to a later date, it was announced on May 5, that Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta would replace Allegiant Stadium as the venue for the 2025 championship.[1][2]
Venue
Mercedes-Benz Stadium is a 71,000-seat venue in Atlanta, Georgia opened in August 2017. The retractable roof stadium is the regular host of the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League (NFL), the Peach Bowl, the Celebration Bowl,[3] the SEC Championship Game, and the annual Aflac Kickoff Game (previously known as the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game).[4] moving from the now-demolished Georgia Dome. Additionally, it hosted the 2018 College Football Playoff National Championship and Super Bowl LIII in 2019, and it is scheduled to host multiple matches during the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
College Football Playoff
The game will be the eleventh in College Football Playoff history, and will be the first national championship game under the expanded College Football Playoff, which features 12 teams instead of 4.[5]
Broadcasting
The game is scheduled to be the eleventh consecutive College Football Playoff National Championship to be televised on ESPN.
Notes
- December 7–8: Selection Weekend
- January 3, 2025: The National Football Foundation to announce the newest College Football Hall of Fame class
- ^ a b The game was originally scheduled to be played at Allegiant Stadium in Paradise, Nevada.
See also
References
- ^ Murphy, Sam (May 5, 2022). "Vegas Loses 2025 CFP National Championship To Atlanta". Yahoo Sports. Retrieved May 5, 2022.
- ^ Burke, Peter (2022-08-16). "Atlanta selected to host 2025 College Football Playoff National Championship". WFLX. Retrieved 2024-04-14.
- ^ Sugiura, Ken. "How the Celebration Bowl came into existence". Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Retrieved 2020-01-17.
- ^ Sports, A. J. C. "Future Chick-fil-A Kickoff games". Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Retrieved 2020-01-17.
- ^ Dinich, Heather; Thamel, Pete (September 2, 2022). "College Football Playoff to expand to 12-team format". ESPN. Archived from the original on December 31, 2023. Retrieved January 10, 2024.