Ohio State and Notre Dame bring big brands, with a Midwest mindset, to Monday's national championship game in Atlanta. Not everyone is happy about it.

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.

The winner claims the national championship in the first year of the expanded 12-team College Football Playoff and longest college football season ever. Ohio State is trying for its sixth title, and first since its 2014 team won the inaugural CFP. Notre Dame is going for its 12th title, and first since 1988.

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.

The University of Notre Dame is an 8.5-point underdog against Ohio State University in the College Football Playoff National Championship on Monday night. But in the money race, the Fighting Irish have already won.

There's a consensus entering Monday night's national championship game between the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and Ohio State Buckeyes.

There are so many storylines with the upcoming titanic collision between Ohio State and Notre Dame in the College Football Playoff Championship Game. One of those is the ties between Irish head

Welcome to the second annual Hot 25 rankings — the Hotline’s look at the 25 most influential people in college football, with a twist: These are the key movers behind the scenes. We have excluded

Welcome to the second annual Hot 25 rankings — the Hotline’s look at the 25 most influential people in college football, with a twist: These are the key movers behind the scenes. We have excluded

Ohio State’s Ryan Day and Notre Dame’s Marcus Freeman faced questions about their capabilities to lead prominent teams just over a year ago.

Notre Dame has advanced to the 2024-2025 national championship game, where the Fighting Irish will take on the Ohio State Buckeyes at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. The game is scheduled for Monday, Jan. 20 at 7:30 p.m. EST and will be broadcast on ESPN.