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

The Notre Dame Fighting Irish will compete against the Ohio State Buckeyes in the College Football Playoff national championship. Here’s how to watch.

It was early August when Notre Dame’s projected starting left tackle suffered a torn right pectoral muscle and was ruled out for the rest of the year. But he didn’t look at it that way. The sophomore imagined a world in which he could return if Notre Dame reached the expanded College Football Playoff, and he attacked his rehab with that in mind.