The 2025 college football season began with 136 FBS teams sharing the collective hope of winning a national championship.<\/p>\n
Now, there are two.<\/p>\n
The 10th-seeded Miami Hurricanes<\/a> and the top-seeded Indiana Hoosiers<\/a> will meet for college football’s ultimate prize inside Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida.<\/p>\n Led by Heisman Trophy winner Fernando Mendoza<\/a>, Indiana seeks its first national championship in program history. Meanwhile, Hurricanes coach Mario Cristobal, who won two national championships as a player at Miami in 1989 and 1991, looks to lead the program to its first title since defeating Nebraska in the 2001 championship game.<\/p>\n Here are key facts about the College Football Playoff National Championship Presented by AT&T:<\/p>\n When is the game?<\/p>\n Kickoff is scheduled for 7:45 p.m. ET on Monday, Jan. 19. Pregame coverage begins with “College GameDay” at 5 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n How can fans watch?<\/p>\n Fans can catch all of the action on ESPN, in the ESPN App<\/a> and in the NCAA football streaming hub<\/a>.<\/p>\n How can fans access more college football content from ESPN?<\/p>\n Check out the ESPN college football hub page<\/a> for the latest news, in-depth features, scores<\/a>, schedules<\/a> and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2025 college football season began with 136 FBS teams sharing the collective hope of winning a national…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-409151","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}