After what feels like a lifetime of waiting, the best football of the season is here, and you expect good things when you sit down to watch the College Football Playoff National Championship. Hopefully, there’s a good game, and before everything gets started, there’s some excellent singing, too.

College Football Playoff National Championship is here! Live from the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta as fans packed the seats for what they hoped to be a suspenseful game by the two finest college football teams in the nation.

The game broadcast will begin at 7:30 p.m. on ESPN. Before the game, Grammy award-winning artist Coco Jones will perform the national anthem. “America the Beautiful” will be performed by the Spelman College Glee Club. Fittingly on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, his daughter Dr. Bernice A. King will participate int he coin toss.

College Football National Championship Game will be played later than is usual for the sports title game. The College Football Playoff has pushed the prestigious event back. Let’s find out when the 2026 National Championship Game is scheduled to be played.

Monday night's College Football Playoff National Championship game was filled with record-breaking performances. Here are the numbers to know.

When there's a talented team on a mission, it's a scary thing for the rest of the college football world. There wasn't a better group of players assembled

USA TODAY is the most recent national outlet to rank the 2020 Crimson Tide as the greatest of the playoff era, joining ESPN.

Will Howard opened the College Football Playoff national championship game with 13 consecutive completions, setting a title game record.

The Notre Dame Fighting Irish opened the College Football Playoff with an emphatic 18-play, 75-yard drive that ate up nine minutes and 45 seconds off the clock

Ohio State quarterback Will Howard connected on his first 13 passes against Notre Dame to set the record for consecutive completions in a College Football Playoff championship game.

Ohio State Buckeyes did two things no College Football Playoff national champion ever accomplished. Not only are they the first team to win the expande

A pair of powerhouse programs square off in the College Football Playoff national championship game in ESPN's 2025 projections from Bill Connelly. The Ohio State Buckeyes secured the first national title in the 12-team playoff era, taking down Notre Dame, 34-23, for the program's ninth championship.