Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly is about to face an Alabama team that beat the Fighting Irish in the 2013 BCS national championship to wrap up the 2012 season. It was a 42-14 drubbing, and Kelly shared on ESPN’s Selection Show what he learned from that game.

“The physicality has to show itself on the offensive line,” Kelly said. “Their offensive line when we played them in ’12 just dominated one of the top defenses, we were No. 2 or 3 in the country defensively, one of the top rush defenses in the country and we got manhandled. What was clear and you didn’t even have to be somebody who knew anything about football, was the disparity in the offensive and defensive lines. Building it that way over the last six years, when we got to ’17 and ’18, we felt like we were much more physical up front, got to the Fiesta Bowl, got back into the Playoffs. And that’s been really what we’ve taken from that journey in ’12, building it with the physicality of the offensive and defensive line.”

The Crimson Tide and Fighting Irish will meet in the Rose Bowl in Dallas after the game was moved because of crowd restrictions in the Los Angeles and Pasadena areas. The game is set for 5 p.m. ET, followed by Clemson and Ohio State in the Sugar Bowl at 8:45 p.m. Both games will air on ESPN.