2025 College Football Playoff National Championship
| 2025 College Football Playoff National Championship | |
|---|---|
| 11th College Football Playoff National Championship | |
 | |
| Date | January 20, 2025 |
| Season | 2024 |
| Stadium | Mercedes-Benz Stadium[a] |
| Location | Atlanta, Georgia[a] |
| United States TV coverage | |
| Network | ESPN |
The 2025 College Football Playoff National Championship is the upcoming college football bowl game scheduled to be played on January 20, 2025, at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia. The eleventh College Football Playoff National Championship will determine a national champion of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) for the 2024 season. It will be the final game of the 2024–25 College Football Playoff (CFP), the first CFP National Championship under the 12-team format, and, aside from any all-star games afterward, the culminating game of the 2024–25 bowl season. It will be televised nationally by ESPN.
Background
[edit]Host selection
[edit]On January 7, 2022, the CFP originally awarded the rights to host the 2025 championship to Allegiant Stadium in Paradise, Nevada. However, due to a conflict with the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which cannot be moved to a later date, it was announced on May 5, that Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta would replace Allegiant Stadium as the venue for the 2025 championship.[1][2]
Venue
[edit]Mercedes-Benz Stadium is a 71,000-seat venue in Atlanta, Georgia, which opened in August 2017. The retractable roof stadium is the regular host of the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League (NFL), the Peach Bowl, the Celebration Bowl,[3] the SEC Championship Game, and the annual Aflac Kickoff Game (previously known as the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game).[4] Additionally, it hosted the 2018 College Football Playoff National Championship, where the Alabama Crimson Tide defeated the Georgia Bulldogs, 26–23 in overtime, and Super Bowl LIII in 2019, and it was selected to host multiple matches during the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
College Football Playoff
[edit]The game will be the eleventh in College Football Playoff history, and will be the first national championship game under the expanded College Football Playoff, which features 12 teams instead of 4.[5]
Broadcasting
[edit]The game is planned to be televised in the United States on ESPN for the eleventh consecutive year, with Megacast coverage across numerous other channels in the ESPN family. In addition to the main national broadcast on ESPN, the Megacast coverage will feature Field Pass hosted by The Pat McAfee Show on ESPN2, the Command Center feed with multiple angles and live statistics on ESPNU, the Skycast on ESPNews, and a Spanish-language broadcast on ESPN Deportes.[6] In Canada, the game will be televised on TSN.[7] ESPN Radio will carry the national radio broadcast of the game[8] and the WatchESPN website and mobile application will feature "Hometown Radio" feeds featuring each team's regular radio commentators.[6]
Notes
[edit]- December 7–8: Selection Weekend
- January 3, 2025: The National Football Foundation to announce the newest College Football Hall of Fame class
- ^ a b The game was originally scheduled to be played at Allegiant Stadium in Paradise, Nevada.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Murphy, Sam (May 5, 2022). "Vegas Loses 2025 CFP National Championship To Atlanta". Yahoo Sports. Retrieved May 5, 2022.
- ^ Burke, Peter (2022-08-16). "Atlanta selected to host 2025 College Football Playoff National Championship". WFLX. Retrieved 2024-04-14.
- ^ Sugiura, Ken. "How the Celebration Bowl came into existence". Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Retrieved 2020-01-17.
- ^ Sports, A. J. C. "Future Chick-fil-A Kickoff games". Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Retrieved 2020-01-17.
- ^ Dinich, Heather; Thamel, Pete (September 2, 2022). "College Football Playoff to expand to 12-team format". ESPN. Archived from the original on December 31, 2023. Retrieved January 10, 2024.
- ^ a b Brooks, Amanda (January 5, 2024). "ESPN launches signature MegaCast presentation for the 2024 College Football Playoff National Championship presented by AT&T". ESPN. Archived from the original on January 10, 2024. Retrieved January 10, 2024.
- ^ "Undefeated Michigan, Washington set to battle for CFP title on TSN". The Sports Network. January 8, 2024. Archived from the original on January 10, 2024. Retrieved January 10, 2024.
- ^ Rajan, Greg (January 8, 2024). "How to watch, listen or stream College Football Playoff championship? ESPN has several options". Houston Chronicle. Archived from the original on January 9, 2024. Retrieved January 10, 2024.