After what feels like a lifetime of waiting, the best football of the season is here, and you expect good things when you sit down to watch the College Football Playoff National Championship. Hopefully, there’s a good game, and before everything gets started, there’s some excellent singing, too.

Since the start of the College Football Playoff in 2014, there have been 11 national champions. Which were the best? We ranked them all.

The game broadcast will begin at 7:30 p.m. on ESPN. Before the game, Grammy award-winning artist Coco Jones will perform the national anthem. “America the Beautiful” will be performed by the Spelman College Glee Club. Fittingly on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, his daughter Dr. Bernice A. King will participate int he coin toss.

We're officially a decade into the College Football Playoff era, so let's take a look back at each national title game and determine which were the best.

Ohio State Buckeyes quarterback Will Howard was looking to lead his team to their first national championship victory since 2014. In his effort to do so, he broke a College Football Playoff record.

Alabama leads all programs with three CFP titles. Georgia and Clemson are the only other teams with multiple titles in the CFP era, but Ohio State can add its name to the list with a win over Notre Dame for its first championship since 2014.

Howard, the former Downingtown West star, connected on his first 13 passes to set the record for consecutive completions in a CFP title game. His late 56-yard completion sealed the Buckeyes' win.

The Ohio State Buckeyes won the 2025 College Football Playoffs National Championship when they beat Notre Dame 34-23.

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With just over a minute left in the first half of the 2025 College Football Playoff National Championship, Ohio State Buckeyes QB Will Howard etched his name into CFP history. Will Howard Breaks CFP National Championship Record vs.

Who's singing the national anthem at the CFP national championship game? Here's everything to know of Coco Jones, this year's performer: