The 2025 college football season will come to a close on Monday, Jan. 19, with No. 1 Indiana (15-0) playing No. 10 Miami (13-2) in the College Football Playoff national championship.
In a curious set of scheduling circumstances, the Hurricanes – who because of their lower seed will be the designated "away team" in the game – will actually have the opportunity to win the championship in Hard Rock Stadium, where they play their home games during the season.
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The CFP in 2022 announced that the Miami Gardens, Florida, stadium would host the CFP Championship game for the second time. That season, first-year coach Mario Cristobal led the Hurricanes to a 5-7 record. Now, five years later, his team has earned the right to compete for a championship in their home stadium with wins over No. 7 Texas A&M, No. 2 Ohio State and No. 6 Mississippi.
But the 2025 Miami football team is hardly the first to play a home game with a national championship on the line – the Hurricanes have a history of finishing off title-winning seasons in front of their home crowd.
