re: Notre Dame's and Bama's BCS practice schedules

Bama has been game planning for this game for about 3-4 years. Building depth, talent, and strength. Our gameplan will be to line up and smack you in the mouth and see if you can stop us offensively. Since you don't have a complicated offense, the defensive gameplan won't be very complicated. We will just do what we normally do. Get in the right scheme depending on the play, disguise our blitzes, and dominate the line to stop the run and force the pass.

ETA- oh and Saban has been doing this a long time. He stated numerous times that he's found that this is best way for him to prepare his players for a bowl game.