4-star Caleb Kelly chose Oklahoma over Notre Dame by picking out of a hat

Caleb Kelly executed what could've been one of the more entertaining signing day picks had he done it on national television.

The four-star linebacker, who signed with Oklahoma late in the evening of signing day, chose the Sooners over Notre Dame because that's the school he picked out of a hat, he told Josh McCuistion of Rivals.

Kelly was so torn over which school to attend that he left it up to chance.

I got a piece of paper and wrote Oklahoma and Notre Dame and split in half. My mom was in the other room, I called her in - or I crinkled the paper up before - and then called my mom in and said "mom I’m going to get two hats, you’re going to put the balls of paper into the hat, and when I pick that’s the school I’m going to go to."

I went away, gave her the hats, she put the balls under the hat and then I remember I picked up the hat and picked up the ball of paper and I thought "damn this is Notre Dame" because I felt the size of it. I said "I guess we’re going to Notre Dame" but I didn’t say it (aloud) I just said it in my head.

But that internal conversation led him to his final choice, even though that choice wasn’t located in South Bend.

I opened up the piece of paper and it was OU and I just felt a weight get lifted off of my shoulders. I was like "that’s it mama, that’s where I’m going." I knew just by my reaction when I thought it was Notre Dame that I didn’t want to go there and I really wanted to go to Oklahoma, and that’s what I did.

Needless to say, the Irish missed out on the nation's seventh-best linebacker because of sheer luck.