Nineteen players who signed with Ohio State out of high school have combined for 513 starts, and Ryan Day’s classes have landed in the top five in the 247Sports Composite Rankings six straight years. Notre Dame’s Freeman has had recruiting classes ranked from seventh to 12th.

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.

Marcus Freeman has shown us his game plan, and our early college football expert predictions are leaning toward a closer final score than the oddsmakers predict.