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The winner of the game is awarded the College Football Playoff National Championship Trophy, which is sponsored by Dr Pepper. [4] It was created as a new championship trophy, rather than the "crystal football" that has been given by the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) since 1986, as officials wanted a new trophy that was ...
The CFP expanded to a 12-team format for the 2024 and 2025 seasons. [20] [21] Features of the expanded playoff include: [22] Guaranteed bids for the top five conference champions in the CFP rankings; no conference will have an automatic bid, a conference must have a minimum of eight members for its champion to be eligible for a guaranteed bid.
Winner was to be awarded a presidential plaque by game attendee Richard Nixon declaring them "the number-one college football team in college football's one-hundredth year." [ 9 ] This was the final regular season game, and it determined the Coaches Poll title.
It was the final game of the 2024–25 College Football Playoff (CFP), the first national championship under the 12-team CFP format, and, aside from any all-star games afterward, the culminating game of the 2024–25 bowl season. The game began at 7:30 p.m. EST and was televised nationally by ESPN.
Rose Bowl: No. 1 Oregon vs. Ohio State/Tennessee winner, 5 p.m. (ESPN) CFP semifinals schedule. The semifinal games will be played on Jan. 9 and Jan. 10. Both games will be televised by ESPN.
The exterior of NRG Stadium on January 6, 2024. NRG Stadium in Houston was the site chosen for the game on November 1, 2017. [4] [5] Houston was the tenth city to host the College Football Playoff National Championship (after Arlington, Glendale, Tampa, Atlanta, Santa Clara, New Orleans, Miami Gardens, Indianapolis, and Inglewood). [6]
View of the trophy on the sideline during the 2019 National Championship game. The College Football Playoff National Championship Trophy is the trophy awarded to the winner of the College Football Playoff (CFP), the postseason tournament in American college football that determines a national champion for the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS).
The round-by-round CFP numbers have climbed steadily this postseason, from 10.6 million in the first round to 16.9 million in the quarterfinals to 19.2 million in the semifinals.