Ohio State has a chance to have a third-straight coach lead it to a national title when it takes the field against Notre Dame on Monday. Ryan Day is coaching in his second title game but unlike its 52-24 loss to Alabama in 2020,

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.

Ohio State is chasing its first college football national championship in a decade, while Notre Dame has not won since 1988.