One of the wackiest seasons in college football history will end with two schools whose traditions are as old as the game itself – Ohio State and Notre Dame –

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.

The first college football national championship of the 12-team playoff era is set, with two teams within hours of Cincinnati set to face off.