The Big Easy got Big Even.

A year after losing Super Bowl LII to Minneapolis, New Orleans rebounded Wednesday and was awarded the 2020 College Football Playoff National Championship Game.

So there will be no title game trifecta for U.S. Bank Stadium, which is scheduled to host the NFL’s championship in February 2018 followed by the 2019 NCAA Men’s Basketball Final Four.

“I’m not sure we wanted to be third in that row,” Bill Hancock, executive director of the College Football Playoff Group, said of the Minneapolis events.

Also losing out to New Orleans in 2020 were Charlotte, Houston and San Antonio.

The CFP awarded the 2018 national championship game to Atlanta and the 2019 game to Santa Clara, Calif., outside San Francisco.

The Minnesota Bid Committee said it would regroup and campaign again for the 2021 college title game during the next cycle in about three years.

“In a way we’re a victim of our own success,” said Michele Kelm-Helgen, chair of the Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority. “But we obviously are going to show college football what a great job we do in hosting the Super Bowl and Final Four.

“We’re all confident (that) though we didn’t get it for 2020, we’re very hopeful we’ll get it for 2021.”

The 65,000-seat U.S. Bank Stadium is scheduled to open for the 2016 Vikings season.

Minnesota officials tried and failed two years ago to persuade college football to hold its biggest game in a northern state — most have been warm-weather affairs.

The inaugural 2015 championship was held in Arlington, Texas. The 2016 title game will be in Glendale, Ariz., and the 2017 game in Tampa, Fla.

Hancock said college football wants to broaden where it stages its championship game as the event matures. Weather was not Minneapolis’ major impediment.

He questioned whether there would be community or corporate “fatigue” trying to maintain high levels of interest and fundraising.

“It’s going to be a fabulous stadium. It’s going to be gorgeous and very functional,” Hancock said. “But back-to-back-to-back, and compared to the other cities competing with it, it just didn’t happen this time.”

Scot Housh, co-chair of Minnesota’s campaign for the game, has said he expects a successful bid to require $8 million to $12 million in private contributions, comparable to the winning Final Four bid.

Chris Polincinski, the other co-chair, has said the economic impact of the inaugural championship in Texas this year, won by Ohio State, was estimated at more than $300 million.

Such figures, however, vary widely among economists.

Glendale, Ariz., near Phoenix, is in the midst of a three-game title stretch.

The area just played host to Super Bowl XLIX, the second time in six years the University of Phoenix Stadium has hosted the NFL’s championship game. It also will be the site of the 2016 College Football Championship Game on Jan. 11, followed by the 2017 Final Four.

In September, College Football Playoff officials toured the U.S. Bank Stadium construction site and virtual viewing area across the street. Unlike Phoenix or New Orleans, the Twin Cities and its new venue have not benefited from proven party planning.

“What’s going to change is by (the) 2021 (bid) we will have already hosted one or two major events, so if there are any questions about our ability to host a major event we will have done those successfully,” Kelm-Helgen predicted.

“At a certain point, having our building done and open and people being able to see it, feel it, touch it, it’s only going to help our opportunities in the future.”

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