The Ohio State Buckeyes will take on the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in the CFP National Championships in less than 24 hours.

The stage is set for an incredible cat-and-mouse game between Riley Leonard and Caleb Downs, two outstanding players whose roles and responsibilities make it a virtual certainty that they’ll collide with the sport’s biggest prize at stake.

At the time, they were two quarterbacks preparing for the biggest season of their lives. Riley Leonard and Will Howard, the soon-to-be starting quarterbacks at Notre Dame and Ohio State, attended the famed Manning Passing Academy at Nicholls State over the summer.