Where is the 2025 College Football National Championship Game? With a rotating host for the college football title game each year, it can be difficult to remember where the pinnacle of college football will be played. We’ve got you covered with all the information about the 2025 College Football National Championship Game location you could ever need.
2025 College Football National Championship Game Location
- Location: Atlanta, Georgia
- Stadium: Mercedes-Benz Stadium
Although the date for the 2025 College Football National Championship Game was announced back in 2018, it wasn’t until Jan. 2022 that Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia, was chosen as the host for the 11th edition of the College Football Playoff’s traditional title-deciding game.
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Originally, Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada, was meant to be the location for the 2025 College Football National Championship Game. However, a schedule clash with the Consumer Electrics show — an event that attracts over 200,000 people to “Sin City” — and a subsequent stalemate over rearranging either event ensured that the title game would return to Atlanta for the second time in CFP history.
Mercedes-Benz Stadium Makes History as Host of the 2025 College Football National Championship
In becoming the location for the 2025 College Football National Championship, Mercedes-Benz stadium sets history in the College Football Playoff era. No stadium has ever hosted the title twice during the CFP era as a result of the CFP Management Committee’s desire to move the championship game around the country.
In 2017, CFP Executive Bill Hancock asserted that they were “serious” about that commitment, and the game will have been played in eight different states by the time the College Football National Championship is played in Mercedes-Benz Stadium on Monday, Jan. 20, 2025.
The home of the Atlanta Falcons last hosted the College Football National Championship Game in 2018. One of the most exciting title games in the CFP era saw the hometown Georgia Bulldogs felled by the fourth-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide by a score of 26-23.
The game is notable for the game-winning touchdown throw from Tua Tagovailoa to DeVonta Smith that drew a shriek of “the Crimson Tide will not be denied” from ESPN commentator Chris Fowler.
In many ways, it is fitting that Mercedes-Benz Stadium will be the first arena to host multiple title games when it welcomes the 2025 College Football National Championship. The former Georgia Dome has become inextricably linked with top-tier college football since the opening of the 75,000 (official) capacity stadium in 2017.
The stadium has been host to the SEC Championship Game since opening, with at least one participant of that game routinely finding their way to the title game ever since. Only the 2015 title game between Ohio State and Oregon hasn’t featured an SEC team. Meanwhile, two of the championship-deciding matchups (2018 and 2022) have been comprised of an all-SEC clash.
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The Mercedes-Benz Stadium is also a regular fixture at the season’s opening. Since 2017, the stadium has hosted the “Chick-Fil-A Kickoff Game,” consisting of at least one — but sometimes two — games involving marquee programs. A good indicator of future success, one of the teams involved in the game has made it to the College Football National Championship in three of the five years the event has been held in Mercedes-Benz Stadium (there was no game in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic).
If the “Chick-Fil-A Kickoff Game” is where one of the 2025 College Football National Championship Game contenders comes from, either Georgia or the Clemson Tigers will be one of the participants in Atlanta. The two teams face off on Aug. 31, 2024, to open their 2024 college football campaign.
In addition to the College Football National Championship, Mercedes-Benz Stadium is the annual host of the Celebration Bowl — the national championship of Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
The game brings together the champions of the MEAC (Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference) and the SWAC (Southwestern Athletic Conference), with the MEAC having a strong historical advantage in the game. A SWAC team has never won in Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
Finally, when it hosts the 2025 College Football National Championship, Mercedes-Benz Stadium will be a part of further sporting history. This will be the first championship game held under the expanded 12-team College Football Playoff format and, as a result, will be the latest title game held since the implantation of a single-game championship decider.
