<Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> College Football Championship Game </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> <2014 </Td> <Td> 2016> </Td> </Tr> <P> The 2015 College Football Playoff National Championship was a bowl game that determined the consensus national champion of NCAA Division I FBS college football for the 2014 season, which took place at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas on January 12, 2015 . It was the culminating game of the 2014--15 bowl season as the inaugural College Football Playoff National Championship, replacing the BCS National Championship Game . The national title was contested through a four - team bracket system, the College Football Playoff, which replaced the previous Bowl Championship Series . </P> <P> The game was played between the winners of two designated semi-final bowl games played on January 1, 2015: the No. 4 Ohio State Buckeyes, who upset No. 1 Alabama 42--35 in the 2015 Sugar Bowl, and the No. 2 Oregon Ducks, who defeated previously unbeaten No. 3 Florida State 59--20 in the 2015 Rose Bowl . This was the first championship game since 2006 that did not feature at least one SEC team, and the teams' first meeting since the 2010 Rose Bowl, which the Buckeyes won 26--17 . </P>

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