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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.
Below is a list of the national champions of college football since 1869 chosen by NCAA-designated "major selectors" listed in the official Football Bowl Subdivision Records publication. [8] Many teams did not have coaches as late as 1899.
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.
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 first College Football Playoff National Champion has now been crowned, and the Ohio State Buckeyes took care of business to take home the trophy. Like most champions, the Buckeyes had their ...
The National Championship Foundation (NCF) was established by Mike Riter of Hudson, New York.The NCF retroactively selected [citation needed] college football national champions for each year from 1869 to 1979, [1] and its selections are among the historic national champions recognized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in its Football Bowl Subdivision record book.
National championship games have been staged in a formal, pre-scheduled structure since the implementation of the Bowl Championship Series, though other, more circumstantial, national championship contests have taken place (and been widely viewed by contemporary sources as such) prior to that. A list of such "national championship games", as ...
January 12: 2015 College Football Playoff National Championship in Arlington, Texas (debut event) The Ohio State Buckeyes defeat the Oregon Ducks 42–20. It is the Buckeyes' eighth national title and first since 2002.