| Game Name: | College Football Playoff National Championship |
| Subheader: | 11th College Football Playoff National Championship |
| Date Game Played: | January 20 |
| Year Game Played: | 2025 |
| Football Season: | 2024 |
| Stadium: | Mercedes-Benz Stadium |
| City: | Atlanta, Georgia |
| Us Network: | ESPN |
The 2025 College Football Playoff National Championship is an upcoming college football bowl game that is scheduled to be played on January 20, 2025, at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia. The eleventh College Football Playoff National Championship, the game will determine the 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 national championship under the 12-team CFP format, and, aside from any all-star games afterward, the culminating game of the 2024–25 bowl season. It is scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m. EST and will be televised nationally by ESPN.
On January 7, 2022, the College Football Playoff (CFP) awarded the rights to host the 2025 championship to Allegiant Stadium in Paradise, Nevada. However, Allegiant Stadium had to relinquish hosting duties due to a conflict with the Consumer Electronics Show, which was not able to be moved to a later date. As a result, Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia, was named as the replacement host site on May 5, 2022.[1] [2] As Mercedes-Benz Stadium hosted the 2018 CFP national championship, the 2025 game will make Atlanta the first city to host the CFP national championship twice.[3] The stadium, built to replace the Georgia Dome in 2017,[4] is also the annual host of the Aflac Kickoff Game, SEC Championship Game, and the Peach Bowl.[5] The 71,000-seat retractable roof stadium is also the regular host of the Celebration Bowl, the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League (NFL), and Atlanta United FC of Major League Soccer (MLS).[6] Additionally, it has hosted the 2018 MLS Cup,[7] Super Bowl LIII,[8] and two matches during the 2024 Copa América;[9] in the future, it has been selected to host matches during the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup and the 2026 FIFA World Cup, including a semifinal during the latter.[10] [11] In October 2024, the NFL announced that the stadium would host Super Bowl LXII.[12]
See main article: 2024–25 College Football Playoff. The game will be the eleventh national championship in CFP history and will be the first national championship game under the expanded playoff format, which features twelve teams instead of four.[13]
The game will be televised in the United States on ESPN and is scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m. EST.[14] In the United Kingdom, the game will be broadcast on Sky Sports.[15]