There's some history between the Oklahoma Sooners and both programs competing for a national championship.
The Ohio State Buckeyes and Notre Dame Fighting Irish will meet in the College Football Playoff at 6:30 p.m. CT Monday to conclude the 2024 college football season and first-ever 12-team playoff with a new champion.
The Sooners have shared a field with both competing programs before, drawing national attention every time against the fellow Blue Bloods. OU is 3-3 overall against the Buckeyes and Fighting Irish with .500 records against both.
OU has met Ohio State the most and the most recently with a 2-2 record in four matchups. The last meeting brought one of the most memorable moments in Sooner history when Baker Mayfield planted a flag at the 50-yard line of Ohio Stadium to put an exclamation point to the Sooners' 31-16 victory in 2017.
The moment still has Mayfield living rent free in the state of Ohio.
The season before in 2016, the Buckeyes beat OU 45-24 in Norman. The two also clashed in 1977 and 1983, again both visiting teams getting the win.
The Sooners have taken on Notre Dame only twice, splitting a home-and-home series in 2012 and 2013. Once again, the road team somehow always got the last laugh.
In a game with future OU offensive coordinator Ben Arbuckle on a date with his future wife, the Sooners lost 30-13 at Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in 2012. The Fighting Irish concluded that season with a loss to Alabama in the BCS National Championship Game.
The Sooners got revenge in 2013, though, with a 35-21 win in South Bend, Indiana.
With nonconference schedules already in stone through 2036, the Sooners won't play either of these programs again unless they meet in a bowl game, or more preferably, the College Football Playoff.