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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 on the Monday night game between the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and the Louisville Cardinals and I will detract from our regularly scheduled plan of NFL discussion to dip our toes.
It will most likely be the very first and only time this season we do so, as the previous week of display NFL football is somewhat lackluster compared to some regular-season sport of NCAA soccer featuring one of the very best teams in the country, and a mythical soccer program to boot, Notre Dame.
Without further ado, lets start the discussion after my buddy Doug Upstone got the better of me last week while I backed the Titans. Weve been placing wins forth and back so it appears like its my turn to the gold wreath, as I heartily endorse the Irish and will follow each of the squares laying the lumber that is heavy onto a road favorite.
After reviewing the college football odds nearly six days prior to this Monday night affair, I see the line has spiked a half-point on the favorite, opening at Notre Dame -19 1/2 to where its currently offered at a solid -20 across the board whatsoever of the best internet sportsbooks.
Doug, I like the Irish but you are leaning to the Cardinals within this battle. Besides the place do you believe Louisville could hang with the boys from South Bend?
Doug Upstone: Yes at least and a triumph IMO, it said a great deal about the direction of the Steelers and Titans. Lets move ahead to football, in which the matches count and will our records with this one.
Recall those Thursday night matches Louisville used to perform against opponents that are big-name? They held their own and engineered upsets. These were enjoyable games and also the Cardinals were an club.
But for example the former Papa Johns Stadium as well as its fake (in real life) owner, Louisville soccer last season was worse than a three-day-old pizza.
Scott Satterfield will be out win games and to change the culture and worked miracles. This wont happen immediately as the ability level is down in theVille. This is a big moment for Louisville, a team which has the opportunity to begin taking actions in the perfect direction.
Ive read where the Cards trainers have popped up the slow mechanisms of QB Jawon Pass (great name for a QB) and that I enjoy Hassan Hall as the direct running back. Than using a ticket for the Colts at OVER 9 for season 23, the shield, well, that makes me more worried. Please do tell you have up your Irish.
Swinging Johnson: The Cardinals will not be doing as the Notre Dame defense will keep them snug in their nest flying into this game. Scott Satterfield is in the big leagues and hes got a group coming from a dismal album this past year, in which they went winless in ACC action. This rebuild is akin to trying to turn it into an F-22 Raptor and taking a hot air balloon.
While that may eventually happen, the problem is that Louisville is confronting a group that made it into the CFP last year and owned 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 until they met Clemson in the CFP semifinals. The offense was clicking on all cylinders as well, averaging 33 points per game over.
My issue is, just how can be a quarterback like traveling who is slow to release, designed to get any traction against a Irish shield? Especially when he is working with a new trainer and an offensive strategy that is entirely new?
Please, Doug, rescue me Im lost! I see no way, shape or form in which Louisville is going to have the ability to keep up with the Golden Domers and I am desperate for your ancestral wisdom and handicapping experience that is prodigious!
Doug Upstone: Well, Swinger, I am happy to read in your last sentence youre coming around to the bright side of sports gambling, or youre simply being the exact identical shrewd a** you are. I will let the SBR readers that are currently making that is decided on by college football selections. I am the first to understand Louisville was not only 2-10, however, 1-11 ATS and sucked last year.
But that team COMPLETELY gave up on coach Bobby Petrino, like he gave up on the Atlanta Falcons. A coach brings a new attitude and his team will be sold by Satterfield on building a statement with this being a national match. Louisville does have to trust they will not be taken by the Irish for granted and never have much fight.
Let us also think about, Brian Kelly with the gold and blue is ATS as a road favorite, also if dishing out 20 or more digits, a ATS. This defense you said might improve as the year progresses but substituting five starters, even whenever you dont/cant amuse like Clemson or Bama, it will take time.
I was becoming a bit facetious because although youve got an impressive handicapping restart, you miss the mark from time to time. And in this instance, you happen to be shooting, since Louisville might be greater but Id submit that they could be trained with a Rhesus monkey and enhance upon their deplorable document left by an awkward coach such as Petrino.
I know that laying nearly 3 touchdowns on the street is square biz for sure and Joe Q. Public never got rich by betting the heavy road chalk, but sometimes the general public is correct, and also in this instance they surely are. Until next week when we get down on our NFL Game of the Week, lets see what happens on Monday night once the Irish come prepared 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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