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The College Football Playoff National Championship Game for the 2024 season takes place on Monday, January 20, 2025 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia. It will be the 11th College Football Playoff National Championship Game, but the first one in the new 12-team College Football Playoff. It is scheduled to start at 7:30 pm Eastern and be shown on ESPN. The inaugural 12-team College Football Playoff has the Oregon Ducks as the top overall seed and the favorite to win the College Football National Championship. The top four seeds get a first-round bye in the College Football Playoff, while the other eight teams have first-round games. The Oregon Ducks are the No. 1 seed and are followed by the No. 2 Georgia Bulldogs, No. 3 Boise State Broncos and No. 4 Arizona State Sun Devils. The other eight teams in the 2024-2025 College Football Playoff are the No. 5 Texas Longhorns, No. 6 Penn State Nittany Lions, No. 7 Notre Dame Fighting Irish, No. 8 Ohio State Buckeyes, No. 9 Tennessee Volunteers, No. 10 Indiana Hoosiers, No. 11 SMU Mustangs and No. 12 Clemson Tigers. First round games in the College Football Playoff will take place on Friday, December 20th and Saturday, December 21st at home sites. Each of the top four seeds have a first-round bye and will host a first-round winner in the quarterfinals on Tuesday, December 31st and Wednesday, January 1st. The semifinals take place on Thursday, January 9th and Friday, January 10th with the National Championship Game taking place on Monday, January 20th.

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National Championship Game Format

The College Football Playoff National Championship Game pairs the winning teams from the College Football Playoff semifinal rounds. Seven teams have made it to the CFP multiple times since its inception with Alabama and Clemson leading the way. Ohio State and Georgia have both made it to the CFP National Championship Game twice, while Notre Dame, and Oklahoma have never made it this far as they are winless in the CFP. The 12-team College Football Playoff has five guaranteed bids for the top five conference champions in the College Football Playoff Rankings. There are at-large bids for the seven highest-ranked remaining teams and that can include conference champions.

The four highest-ranked conference champions get first-round byes. The remaining teams play each other in the first round at the home fields of the better seeds. Those matchups are 5 vs. 12, 6 vs. 11, 7 vs. 10, and 8 vs. 9.

The quarterfinals and semifinals are hosted by the New Year's Six Bowl Games (the Cotton, Fiesta, Orange, Peach, Rose, and Sugar and those will rotate each year. The championship game is held at a neutral site. First-round will occur in December with quarterfinal games taking place on or around New Year's Day. Semifinal games take place at least one week later, and the championship game is set for one week after the semifinals.

Bowl games hosting the College Football Playoff Semifinals for the 2024-2025 season are the Orange Bowl on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025 and the Cotton Bowl Classic on Friday, Jan. 10, 2025. The College Football Playoff National Championship will be played at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Ga., on Monday, Jan. 20, 2025.

CFP National Championship Past Results

The Wolverines broke the stranglehold that the SEC had in the title game, as an SEC team had won the College Football Playoff National Championship Game for four straight seasons until Michigan broke that trend winning the game in 2024 which was the culmination of the 2023 season. LSU was the most dominant team we’ve seen in years during the 2019 campaign and Alabama smashed Ohio State at the conclusion of the 2020 season. Georgia toppled Alabama in 2021 after a heartbreaking loss to the Crimson Tide at the end of the 2017 season in Atlanta, and the Bulldogs completely dominated TCU from start to finish to win to wrap up the 2022 season. Michigan controlled Washington to take the national championship for the 2023 regular season.

CFP National Championship By Team

Three programs have stood above the rest when it comes to college football in the CFP era. Alabama, Georgia and Clemson have clearly been the elite programs in the nation. These three schools have combined to win seven of the last eight national championships.

Georgia has emerged as the new team to beat in the current era. The Bulldogs became the first team in the CFP era to win consecutive titles in 2022, and they nearly knocked off Alabama in overtime of the 2017 National Championship Game. Kirby Smart has built a Death Star in Athens, and the Bulldogs look to be a serious contender for the foreseeable future.

Since its inception, two teams have been constant fixtures in the College Football Playoff. Alabama made it to the CFP eight times and has played in the CFP National Championship Game six times. The Crimson Tide are 3-3 in the national championship, with two of their losses coming to the other power in this era.

Clemson went to the CFP for six straight seasons from 2015 to 2020. The Tigers lost twice in the national semifinals, and they made it to the title game four times. They bested Alabama twice thanks to standout performances from Trevor Lawrence and Deshaun Watson.

Now, it might be Georgia’s turn to dominate. The Bulldogs secured the biggest blowout in national championship history with a 65-7 throttling of TCU at the end of the 2022 season to win their second straight national championship. They are the first team to repeat as national champions in the CFP era. The Bulldogs did not get a chance to three-peat, as they were left out of the 2023 College Football Playoff.

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