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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 2015 NCAA Division I FBS football season was the highest level of college football competition in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The regular season began on September 3, 2015, and ended on December 12, 2015.
The 2014–15 postseason was the first to feature a College Football Playoff (CFP) to determine a national champion of Division I FBS college football. Four teams were selected by a 13-member committee to participate in a single-elimination tournament, whose semifinals were held at the Rose Bowl and the Sugar Bowl as part of a yearly rotation of six bowls.
The CFP national championship game between Notre Dame and Ohio State will kick off at 7:30 p.m. ET Monday at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. Notre Dame vs. Ohio State picks, predictions, odds ...
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]
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.
"National Football Championship" "The National Football Championship Committee", a group of Chicago businessmen, announced plans for a game on December 9th at Soldier Field as an annual charity event. Game for the national championship was not played; unclear if they staged any game. 1936: Sugar Bowl: No. 6 Santa Clara: 21–14: No. 2 LSU
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]