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In 2014 the College Football Playoff made its debut, facilitating a multi-game single-elimination tournament for the first time in college football history. Four teams are seeded by a 13–member selection committee rather than by existing polls or mathematical rankings. [43]
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 first college football national championship was awarded retroactively to the two teams. Princeton was named the champion by the Billingsley Report and the National Championship Foundation, while college football research historian Parke H. Davis named Rutgers and Princeton co-champions. Various other ratings and retrospectives have rated ...
Michigan, which became the first college football program to reach 1,000 all-time wins earlier this season, will seek its first national championship since 1997, when the Wolverines shared the ...
More teams than ever have national title dreams in the second week of December. The first 12-team playoff is less than two weeks away, as Indiana and Notre Dame will kick off the postseason on ...
The College Football Playoff National Championship game is then played on the first Monday that is six or more days after the Semifinals. [12] The venue of the championship game is then selected based on bids submitted by cities, similar to the NCAA Final Four .
Starting with the 2014–15 postseason, six College Football Playoff (CFP) bowl games host two semifinal playoff games on a rotating basis. For the 2014-15 season, the Rose Bowl and the Sugar Bowl hosted the semifinal games, with the winners advancing to the 2015 College Football Playoff National Championship at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas ...
The 12-team College Football Playoff will include automatic bids from the top five conference championships in the rankings. The top four of those teams will receive first-round byes.