Notre Dame doesn't have a chance, right? There's a reason those win probability analytics are so dumb. Everyone always has a chance to win. You actually have to play the game instead of paying attention to some arbitrary numbers.

Here's what Ohio State's Ryan Day and Notre Dame's Marcus Freeman said in their final press conference before the CFP championship.

Everyone is waiting in anticipation for the massive collision between Ohio State and Notre Dame in the College Football Payoff National Championship Game. They won’t have to wait long as we

But evolution is also a choice. The dinosaurs didn't have to walk into the tar pits. And college football programs -- even old-timers such as Ohio State and Notre Dame -- don't have to walk into the quicksand of mediocrity, led there by the blinders of obligation to keep on keeping on the same way that Knute Rockne and Woody Hayes did.

Monday will mark the first-ever meeting between Ohio State and Notre Dame football in a football national championship game.

This is it. One final game to be remembered forever in Ohio State lore. One team, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, and a friend turned foe in Marcus Freeman stand in the way. The Buckeyes have dominated the College Football Playoff, but none of that matters if they can’t get this last one done.

Ohio State’s coaches have been focused, for four weeks straight, on a different playoff game that could end the team’s season. But in the background, they’ve also had to be on the phone texting and calling as best as they can.

Quarterback Riley Leonard and the Notre Dame offense have faced a fierce gauntlet of defenses in their path to the College Football Playoff title game