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The 2015 College Football Playoff National Championship was a college football bowl game played on January 12, 2015, at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.The inaugural College Football Playoff National Championship, which replaced the BCS National Championship Game, the game determined a national champion of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) for the 2014 season.
The participants of the 2015 NCAA Division I Football Championship Game were the finalists of the 2014 FCS Playoffs, which began with a 24-team bracket.No. 2 seed North Dakota State and No. 5 seed Illinois State qualified for the final by winning their semifinal games.
December 19, 2015 – January 11, 2016: Bowl games: 41: AP Poll No. 1: Alabama: Coaches Poll No. 1: Alabama: Heisman Trophy: Derrick Henry (running back, Alabama) College Football Playoff; 2016 College Football Playoff National Championship: Site: University of Phoenix Stadium Glendale, Arizona: Champion(s) Alabama: NCAA Division I FBS football ...
The Championship Game was also streamed live for free on NCAA.com. [31] An average of 28.3 million watched the Championship Game on CBS, making the 2015 edition the most viewed NCAA men's basketball championship game since Arizona beat Kentucky in overtime in the 1997 contest. [32]
AT&T Stadium hosted the first College Football Playoff National Championship game, in January 2015. Cities across the United States can bid on the National Championship Game each year. The number of cities capable of bidding for the event is restricted by a requirement to have a stadium with at least 65,000 seats.
The semifinal games will be played Jan. 9 and Jan. 10 at the site of two bowl games. THURSDAY, JAN. 9 Orange Bowl: Fiesta Bowl winner vs. Sugar Bowl winner, 7:30 p.m. (ESPN)
The national championship game drew a viewership average of 25.7 million, a drop of 23 percent, [37] with a Nielsen rating of 15.8. [38] Still, the championship game set an ESPN college football record for unique viewers at over 2.4 million, and ranked third among all ESPN broadcasts behind two FIFA World Cup games. [39]
Column in The Atlanta Constitution proposing a 1917 national championship game between Georgia Tech and Pittsburgh. [201] [202] College football fans and administrators have long sought to match the No. 1 vs. No. 2 teams in an end-of-season national championship game to determine an undisputed national champion on the gridiron. [39]