(MCT) — Notre Dame enters Monday’s BCS National Championship Game as 10-point underdogs to Alabama, and while outward appearances of Irish players and coaches are cool and confident, the Notre Dame camp knows that they’ll have to play their best game of the season to down the SEC champion.

Amid the rehearsed answers of media days and press conferences, the Irish did offer insight to their behind-closed-doors conversations, about how they expect to pull off the upset and finish the season as undefeated national champions.