page_title: 2019–20 NCAA football bowl games
section_title: College Football Playoff and Championship Game
hierarchical_section_title: 2019–20 NCAA football bowl games / Schedule / College Football Playoff and Championship Game
caption_attribution_description: New Orleans. The Superdome new marketing sponsorship name "Mercedes Benz Superdome" just put on the sides of the buidling. Poydras Street side.
context_page_description: The 2019–20 NCAA football games was a series of college football bowl games played to complete the 2019 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The games began on December 20, 2019, and, aside from the all-star games that followed, ended with the 2020 College Football Playoff National Championship played on January 13, 2020.
  The total of 40 team-competitive bowls in FBS, including the national championship game, was unchanged from the previous season. With the first staging of the Hula Bowl since January 2008, the number of all-star games increased from three to four.
context_section_description: The College Football Playoff system is used to determine a national championship of Division I FBS college football. A 13-member committee of experts ranked the top 25 teams in the nation after each of the last seven weeks of the regular season. The top four teams in the final ranking were seeded in a single-elimination semifinal round, with the winners advancing to the National Championship game.
  The semifinal games for the 2019–20 season were the Fiesta Bowl and the Peach Bowl. Both were played on December 28, 2019, as part of a yearly rotation of three pairs of six bowls, commonly referred to as the New Year's Six bowl games. The winners advanced to the 2020 College Football Playoff National Championship at Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana, scheduled for January 13, 2020.
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caption: Mercedes-Benz Superdome, site of the National Championship game
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