2017 College Football Playoff National Championship

2017 College Football Playoff National Championship
College Football Playoff
Date January 9, 2017
Season 2016
Stadium Raymond James Stadium
Location Tampa, Florida
National anthem Star Spangled Banner
Referee TBA
United States TV coverage
Network ESPN
Announcers TBD

The 2017 College Football Playoff National Championship is a bowl game that is to be used determine a national champion of NCAA Division I FBS college football for the 2016 season, to be played at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa Bay, Florida on January 9, 2017 between the winners of the Fiesta Bowl and Peach Bowl that will be held on December 31, 2016. It would be the culminating game of the 2016–17 bowl season as the third College Football Playoff National Championship.

Background

Tampa Bay was announced as the host city for the third College Football Playoff National Championship game on December 17, 2013, beating competing bids by Jacksonville, Minneapolis, San Antonio, San Francisco, and South Florida. It would be the first CFP championship game not held at the site of one of the "New Year's Six" bowls.[1]

Teams

The Fiesta Bowl and the Peach Bowl are assigned to be semifinals whose winners would advance to the title match.

Game summary

Scoring Summary

Statistics

Statistics
First downs
Plays-yards
Rushes-yards
Passing yards
Passing: Comp-Att-Int
Time of possession

Broadcasting

The game will be televised nationally by ESPN.

Notes

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Tampa to host 2017 college football national championship". Tampa Bay Times. Retrieved 9 March 2016.

External links

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