Today, let’s review the paths Ohio State and Notre Dame took to get to the College Football Playoff national championship, which will be Monday in Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium at 7:30 p.m. ET (watch on ESPN or Fubo, which you can try for free ). Plus, we’ll reveal your title predictions.

The year was 1894. Yale put together a football schedule that was daunting: Games on Wednesdays and Saturdays, basically every week from late September to late November, 16 contests in all. No major college football team — what we now call the FBS level — had a 16-game season since.

Ohio State's head football coach Jim Tressel celebrates after Ohio State beat the Miami Hurricanes in double overtime 31-24 at the BCS National Football Championships at the Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona, January 3, 2003. / Fred Squillante / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images