<Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> College Football Playoff National Championship </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> <2016 </Td> <Td> 2018> </Td> </Tr> <P> The 2017 College Football Playoff National Championship was a bowl game that was used to determine a national champion of college football in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision for the 2016 season . The game was played at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida, on January 9, 2017 . It was the culminating game of the 2016--17 bowl season . </P> <P> The game was played between the winners of two pre-designated bowl games played on December 31, 2016: the Clemson Tigers, who defeated the Ohio State Buckeyes in the Fiesta Bowl, and the Alabama Crimson Tide, who defeated the Washington Huskies in the Peach Bowl . Having met in the previous year's championship game, the resulting title game between Clemson and Alabama became college football's first rematch between #1 and #2 in national championship game history . </P>

Where was the college football national championship played last year