Passage: The 2017 College Football Playoff National Championship was a bowl game that was used to determine a national champion of college football in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision for the 2016 season. The game was played at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida, on January 9, 2017. It was the culminating game of the 2016 -- 17 bowl season.

Question: Based on this passage, where is the college football national championship played this year?
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To answer the above question, the relevant sentence is: The game was played at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida, on January 9, 2017.
So, the answer is Raymond James Stadium in Tampa , Florida.