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AT&T Stadium, in Arlington, Texas, 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 NFL consists of thirty-two clubs divided into two conferences of sixteen teams each. Each conference is divided into four divisions of four clubs each. The NFL season format consists of a four-week preseason, a seventeen-week regular season, and a twelve-team single-elimination playoff culminating in the Super Bowl, the league's championship game.
The championship game will continue to be held at a separately determined neutral site. The playoff bracket will not be reseeded at any time. First round games will occur in December, quarterfinal games on or around New Year's Day, semifinal games at least one week later, and the championship game one week after the semifinals.
A win in a game against an NFC North opponent doesn't just help a team's overall record; it's also a major step toward winning a potential tiebreaker for the division title.
Became AP Poll championship game after No. 1 and 2 teams lost the Rose and Cotton Bowl games earlier in the day. 1966: Game of the Century [237] [238] No. 1 Notre Dame: 10–10: No. 2 Michigan State: The following week Notre Dame defeated USC in its last regular season game. [241] 1967: Game of the Century [242] [243] No. 4 USC: 21–20: No. 1 UCLA
The playoff bracket's semifinal games were held at the Peach Bowl and the Fiesta Bowl on December 28, 2019, part of the season's slate of bowl games. The Peach Bowl semifinal saw LSU defeat Oklahoma by a margin of thirty-five points, and Clemson defeated Ohio State by six points in the Fiesta Bowl semifinal.
This was the fourth consecutive College Football Playoff National Championship matching the No. 3 seed and the No. 1 seed. The first was the 2020 edition, where the top-ranked LSU Tigers beat the third-ranked Clemson Tigers by a score of 42–25 at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans.
On November 1, 2017, Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana, was announced as the site for the eighth College Football Playoff (CFP) National Championship. [4] [5] Indianapolis was the eighth different city, and the first "cold-weather city", [6] to host the College Football Playoff National Championship (after Arlington, Glendale, Tampa, Atlanta, Santa Clara, New Orleans, and Miami Gardens).