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Notre Dame (9) vs Louisville
Monday, September 2 nd, 8:00 PM at Cardinal Stadium
Swinging Johnson: This week Doug Upstone and render our college football picks and I will deviate to dip our feet.
It will most likely be the very first and only time this year we do this, as the last week of display NFL football is somewhat lackluster compared to a regular-season sport of NCAA soccer comprising one of the best clubs in the nation, plus a legendary football program to boot, Notre Dame.
Without further ado, lets begin the debate after my friend Doug Upstone got the better of me last week while I backed the Titans. We have been placing wins on and back so it looks like it is my turn to get the wreath, as I will accompany all the squares laying the lumber that is heavy onto a road favorite and endorse the Irish.
After reviewing the college football odds nearly six days prior to this Monday night event, I see the line has spiked a half-point on the preferred, starting at Notre Dame -19 1/2 to where its presently offered in a solid -20 throughout the board at all the best internet sportsbooks.
I enjoy the Irish but youre leaning on the Cardinals within this clash. Besides the place, why do you think Louisville will hang with the boys from South Bend?
Doug Upstone: Yup Swinger, IMO and a successful win, said a great deal about the Steelers and Titans direction. Lets move to football, so will our recordings on this one and in which the matches count.
Recall Louisville used to perform against competitions that are big-name? They held their engineered and own many upsets. These were fun games to watch and the Cardinals were an golf club.
However, like the former Papa Johns Stadium as well as its fake (in real life) proprietor, Louisville soccer last year was worse than a three-day-old pizza.
Scott Satterfield are out to alter the civilization and win games and worked wonders at Appalachian State. This will not happen right away as the ability level is down from theVille. Yet this is a time for Louisville, a team which has the opportunity to begin taking steps.
I have read in which the Cards coaches have popped up the slow mechanisms of QB Jawon Pass (great name for a QB) and I enjoy Hassan Hall because the direct running back. Than using a ticket for the Colts at OVER 9 for season 23, the shield that makes me more nervous. Please do tell you have up your Irish.
Swinging Johnson: The Cardinals wont be doing as the Notre Dame defense will keep them comfortable in their nest, flying in this match. Scott Satterfield is in the big leagues and hes got a group coming off of a dismal album where they went winless last year. This rebuild is akin to taking a hot air balloon and attempting to turn it into an F-22 Raptor.
While that may eventually occur, the issue is that Louisville is facing a group that made it into the CFP last year and possessed one of the stingiest defenses in all of college football, devoting only 17.2 points over the regular season and moving a perfect 12-0 till they fulfilled Clemson from the CFP semifinals. The offense clicked on all cylinders also, averaging over 33 points per match.
My issue is, just how can be a quarterback like Pass whos slow to discharge, designed to get any traction against a Irish defense? Especially when he is working with a new trainer and an entirely new offensive strategy?
Please, Doug, rescue me Im lost! I see no way, shape or form where Louisville is going to have the ability to keep up with the Golden Domers and Im desperate to handicapping expertise that is prodigious and the ancestral wisdom!
Doug Upstone: Well, Swinger, I am happy to read in your last sentence you are coming over to the sunny side of sports gambling, or youre just being the exact same wise a** you are. Ill let the SBR readers that are currently making this is decided on by school football selections. I am the first to understand Louisville fully pumped and was 1-11 ATS, although not just 2-10 final year.
Like he gave up on the Atlanta Falcons, However, that staff COMPLETELY gave up on coach Bobby Petrino. A new attitude is brought by A coach and his team will be sold by Satterfield on making a statement with this being a national game. Louisville does need to trust they will not be taken by the Irish and never have a lot of fight.
Let us also consider, Brian Kelly with all the blue and gold is only 10-13-1 ATS as a road favorite, and a mere 7-9-1 ATS, when dishing out more or 20 specimens. That defense you said may improve as the year progresses but replacing five starters, even if you dont/cant recruit like Bama or Clemson, it will take some time.
I was being a bit facetious because although youve got an impressive handicapping resume, you miss the mark from time to time. And in this circumstance, because Louisville might be better compared to last year but I would submit that they are coached with a Rhesus monkey and improve upon their document rendered by an inept trainer like Petrino, you happen to be shooting blanks.
I understand that placing nearly three touchdowns on the road is square biz for certain along with Joe Q. Public never got rich by gambling the heavy road chalk, but on occasion the people is correct, and in this situation they definitely are. Until once we get down on our NFL Game of the Week, next week, lets see what happens on Monday when the Irish come ready to rumble in Louisville.
Free College Football Pick: Swinging Johnson — Notre Dame -20 (-110)
Free College Football Pick: Doug Upstone — Louisville +20 (-110)
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