The CFB National Championship Game has several cities interested in hosting it in 2018, ’19 and ’20.
The College Football National Championship Game has been raised to a new level with the College Football Playoffs and its layers of organization.
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It was a huge success in its inaugural run during the 2014 season, and several cities are now prepared to become part of the successful venture.
Among the cities prepared to bid on the next three available games in 2018, ’19 and ’20 are Atlanta, Charlotte, Jacksonville, Miami, Minnesota, San Antonio and Santa Clara.
Meanwhile, seven cities are still mulling bids: Indianapolis, Houston, New York/New Jersey, New Orleans, Orlando, Pasadena and Arlington, which hosted this year’s inaugural national title game.
The new College Football Playoff system is already locked in for the next 12 years as to which cities/bowl games will host the national semifinals. It is on a rotation whereby, each bowl game hosts a national semifinal every three years.
So the Rose Bowl and Orange Bowl, which hosted this year’s two semifinals will again on January 1, 2018. As such, New Orleans and Pasadena will likely not bid on the national title game in 2018.
Miami and Arlington are set to host the semifinals in 2019, so the same reasoning stands. Phoenix and Atlanta are hosting the semifinals in 2020, so it would seem unlikely for either city to go after the national title game for that season.
Interestingly, among the seven cities set to make a bid, only Miami hosted what used to be known as a BCS game. But all of them, except Minnesota, has considerable experience with bowl games.
Minnesota, though, is hosting the Super Bowl in 2018. As such, it is unlikely to bid on, and if it did it would almost certainly not win, the 2018 national title game.
With that Super Bowl hosting experience, Minnesota would figure to be a favorite for 2019 or ’20 or subsequent years, except that the national title game is shortly becoming similar to the Super Bowl in that it is more than a one-day event.
Frankly, not too many people are going to want to spend around a week in Minneapolis in January.
For that reason, the more moderate climates of Charlotte, Atlanta, the Florida cities and in California figure to present better options for future College Football National Championship Games.
But time will tell. This is still all so new to everyone that no one really knows what to expect.
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