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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.
Later that week, No. 3 Auburn defeated No. 4 Ole Miss, 35–31, in what the Associated Press called "the first College Football Playoff knockout game". [3] As a result, Ole Miss dropped to No. 11 in the rankings and TCU rose to No. 6, making them the first Big 12 team to be ranked in the CFP top six. [4]
A standalone National Championship game is held roughly a week later. [1] Beginning in the 2024–25 season, the Playoff will expand to twelve teams, with four rounds. The first round will be played on campus sites, the quarter-finals and semi-finals rotating among the same six Bowl games, along with the standalone National Championship game.
Penn State is a win away from the national title game. The No. 6 Nittany Lions jumped out to a 14-0 lead and held on for a 31-14 win over No. 3 Boise State in the Fiesta Bowl. PSU advances to the ...
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]
The score stood at 14-3, and the game looked like it was about to become the fifth straight blowout of the College Football Playoff. SILAS BOLDEN 75-YARD PUNT RETURN TO THE HOUSE‼️ pic.twitter ...
The inaugural College Football Playoff games in January 2015 generated larger ratings than previous BCS games. The 2015 College Football Playoff National Championship had an 18.9 Nielsen rating [ 111 ] and was watched by approximately 33.4 million people, the largest broadcast audience of all time on American cable television (non- broadcast ...
The regular season began on September 3, 2015, and ended on December 12, 2015. The postseason concluded on January 11, 2016, with Alabama defeating Clemson in the 2016 College Football Playoff National Championship. This was the second season of the College Football Playoff (CFP) championship system.