2027 College Football Playoff National Championship to be played in New Orleans
The 2027 College Football Playoff National Championship Game will be played in New Orleans on January 24, 2028. On3’s own Brett McMurphy reported the news Monday.
It’ll be the first national title game in New Orleans since January 13, 2020 when LSU beat Clemson 42-25. That game was highlighted by LSU’s de facto superteam led by Joe Burrow and Ed Orgeron.
That was the only time New Orleans hosted the College Football Playoff National Championship since the CFP was created in 2014. The city regularly hosts the Sugar Bowl, which is one of the locations in the quarterfinals or semifinals, depending upon the rotation.
This year’s College Football Playoff will conclude in Miami at Hard Rock Stadium on January 19th. Next season, Las Vegas will be the host city in Paradise, Nevada at Allegiant Stadium.
As far as other non-football related College Football Playoff news, power conferences are reportedly exploring a working group to consider formats. Currently, the CFP is a 12-team bracket in its second year of this version.
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Conference commissioners and Notre Dame athletics director Pete Bevacqua met last week in Chicago for the annual fall CFP meeting. Discussions took place about its governance structure, but no serious discussion took place about future formats, executive director Rich Clark told reporters.
If the conferences finalize a working group, multiple formats could be up for discussion. The brackets range from from 16 teams to 28 to 32, Yahoo Sports‘ Ross Dellenger reported.
As part of the discussions – described as a “launching point” – multiple Big Ten administrators are socializing a concept that would include a field of more than 20 teams, according to Dellenger. The concept would give each power conference an equal amount of teams in the field. However, it must also generate support from the SEC since the league, along with the Big Ten, have the bulk of control in CFP discussions.
Talks of expanding the College Football Playoff field took place over the summer, and officials face a Dec. 1 deadline to make a decision for the 2026-27 season. Two models came up in conversations over the offseason: a 4-4-2-2-1 and a 5-plus-11.