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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 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]
This was Ohio State's first national championship since their victory in the 2003 Fiesta Bowl, [30] and it was the third for Urban Meyer, who had won titles with Florida in the 2007 and 2009 BCS championships. [33] The Buckeyes finished the season with a 14–1 record, and the Ducks fell to 13–2 following their championship game loss. [34]
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 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.
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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]
National championship game § Denotes College Football Playoff game Results W Win L ... December 31, 2015: 2015: Clemson: Sun Life Stadium: Miami Gardens, Florida: 67,615