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 Playoff National Championship Game location you could ever need.
2025 College Football National Championship Game Location
- Location: Atlanta, GA
- Stadium: Mercedes-Benz Stadium
- Matchup: Ohio State Buckeyes vs. Notre Dame Fighting Irish
- Start Time: 7:30 p.m. ET
- TV Channel: ESPN
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. It also plays host to the Chick-Fil-A Kickoff Game and the annual Peach Bowl, which, in the 2024 college football season, was a College Football Playoff quarterfinal matchup.
Finally, when it hosts the 2025 College Football National Championship, Mercedes-Benz Stadium will be a part of further sporting history. This is 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.
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