2019 College Football Playoff National Championship presented by AT&T | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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5th College Football Playoff National Championship | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date | January 7, 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Season | 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stadium | Levi's Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Location | Santa Clara, California | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
MVP | Offensive: #16 QB Trevor Lawrence, Fr. Clemson Defensive: #1 CB Trayvon Mullen, Jr. Clemson[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Favorite | Alabama by 5.5[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
National anthem | Andy Grammer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Referee | Mike Cannon (Big Ten) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Halftime show | Clemson University Tiger Band Million Dollar Band | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Attendance | 74,814 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Network | ESPN and ESPN Radio | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Announcers | Chris Fowler (play-by-play) Kirk Herbstreit (analyst) Tom Rinaldi and Maria Taylor (sideline) (ESPN) Sean McDonough, Todd Blackledge, Holly Rowe and Ian Fitzsimmons (ESPN Radio) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nielsen ratings | 14.6 (25.28 million viewers)[3][4] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
International TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Network | ESPN Deportes ESPN Deportes Radio | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Announcers | Lalo Varela and Pablo Viruega (ESPN Deportes) Kenneth Garay and Alex Pombo (ESPN Deportes Radio) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
The 2019 College Football Playoff National Championship was a college football bowl game played on January 7, 2019, at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California. The fifth College Football Playoff National Championship, the game determined a national champion in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision for the 2018 season. It was the final game of the 2018-19 College Football Playoff (CFP) and, aside from any all-star games that followed, was the culminating game of the 2018–19 bowl season.[5] Sponsored by telecommunications company AT&T, the game was officially known as the 2019 College Football Playoff National Championship presented by AT&T.[2]
The Clemson Tigers defeated the Alabama Crimson Tide by a score of 44–16 to win the championship with an undefeated 15–0 record. Clemson became the first such undefeated team in the CFP era to win the title, and the first[a] to finish 15–0 in a single season since the 1897 Penn Quakers.[6][7] The 28-point loss was the largest margin of defeat for Alabama during the Nick Saban era (since 2007)[8] and since Alabama's 31-point loss in the 1998 Music City Bowl.[9]
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