Minnesota Vikings: Minneapolis loses bid for College Football Playoff championship game

The ultimate trio of sporting events won’t be happening in the new Minnesota Vikings stadium. It was announced on Wednesday that the Vikings’ new home, U.S. Bank Stadium, lost their campaign for the 2020 College Football Playoff National Championship game.

The 2020 game will be held in New Orleans, Louisiana at the Superdome. Other dates announced were the 2018 game in Atlanta, Georgia in a new, not-yet-open future home for the Atlanta Falcons and the 2019 game in Santa Clara, California at Levis Stadium which is the new shiny home for the San Francisco 49ers.

This year’s game will be held in Glendale, Arizona at the home of the Arizona Cardinals and the following season will be held in Tampa, Florida.

U.S. Bank Stadium already has two big events on the books. The NFL will bring the Super Bowl to Minneapolis and Minnesota in 2018 and the year the NCAA men’s Final Four will be held in the same building. That’s on top of the Minnesota Vikings dates, assumed multiple huge concerts and a widely rumored Wrestlemania.

The Vikings will finally get to move into the new digs at the beginning of next season.

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Minnesota has held the Final Four three times before. In 1951, the championship games were held at Williams Arena. In 1992 and 2001, the games were held at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. The Super Bowl has been in Minnesota once and that was at the Dome in 1992.

While I’m excited for this huge sporting events, my fingers are still crossed for a huge opening Bruce Springsteen show. Make it happen, Zygi.

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