2PM Cowboys Stadium gets 1st playoff championship game
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -- The grandest stage in sports was too much for the guys who are putting together the College Football Playoff to pass up.
The BCS conference commissioners announced Wednesday that Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, edged Tampa, Fla., in the bidding to be the site of the first title championship in the new playoff system.
"The stadium itself was the biggest determiner," BCS executive director Bill Hancock said about the $1.2 billion dollar, 100,000-plus seat home of the NFL's Cowboys and the Cotton Bowl. "It's still the stadium with a capital `T."'
The game will be held Jan. 12, 2015.
"We couldn't be more excited about bringing college football's biggest game to Cowboys Stadium," Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said in a statement. "Rest assured, we all pledge to do everything we can to make sure this game exceeds everyone's highest expectations."
The final three sites for the semifinal rotation also were announced and Cowboys Stadium came up a winner again. The Cotton Bowl will be part of the six-bowl rotation, along with the Chick-fil-A Bowl in Atlanta and the Fiesta Bowl in Glendale, Ariz. The Holiday Bowl in San Diego also bid for a spot in the semifinal rotation, but couldn't pull the upset.
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Or are there some high school playoffs held there?
Troy Aikman at the * Libary this morning
How sweet!
Good thing Manti Te'o graduates. Otherwise they'd never take ND. 
Srsly, that alone should have put the Holiday Bowl over the top. The Atlanta bowl game needs a new sponsor. How about Atlanta federal penitentiary? </sarc>
edit: Bad idea. They'd have to guarantee a spot to Penn State. 
