Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, will be awarded college football playoff's first national championship on Jan. 12, 2015, sources told ESPN.
Also the Fiesta, Cotton and Chick-fil-A bowls will join the Rose, Sugar and Orange bowls in the six-bowl semifinal rotation for the new playoff, sources said.
The site of the title game in the first season of the new four-team event was discussed Tuesday by BCS commissioners, a source said. Tampa, Fla., and Arlington were the only two cities that bid for the game.
Arlington has been a prohibitive favorite for several months, but an impressive package from Tampa made it a tough decision, sources said.
"It was closer than a lot of people thought it would be," a source said.
The official vote and announcement of the first title game and semifinal sites will be made Thursday from the Langham Hotel in Pasadena. (ESPN.com)
