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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 I will deviate to dip our feet and also leave our school football selections.
It will almost certainly be the first and only time this year we do this, as the previous week of exhibition NFL football is somewhat lackluster in comparison to a regular-season game of NCAA football comprising one of the best teams in the nation, and a legendary soccer program to boot up, Notre Dame.
Without further ado, let us start the discussion after my buddy Doug Upstone got the better of me last week with a wager on the Steelers while I backed the Titans. Weve been placing wins forth and back so it appears like it is my turn for the gold wreath, as I will follow all the squares laying the lumber on a public road favorite and endorse the Irish.
After reviewing the school football odds nearly six days prior to the Monday night affair, I see the lineup has spiked a half-point on the favorite, opening at Notre Dame -19 1/2 to where it is now offered in a solid -20 round the board whatsoever of the very best internet sportsbooks.
I enjoy the Irish but youre leaning onto the Cardinals in this clash. Apart from the place is it that you think Louisville can hang with the boys from South Bend?
Doug Upstone: Yup a successful win and IMO, said a great deal about the Steelers and Titans management. Lets proceed to soccer, so will our records with this one and in which the games rely.
Remember Louisville utilized to play against big-name opponents? They held their engineered and own many upsets. These were enjoyable games and the Cardinals were a thrilling club.
However, just for example the former Papa Johns Stadium and its phony (in real life) owner, Louisville football last year was worse than the usual three-day-old pizza.
Scott Satterfield are out win games and to change the civilization and worked wonders at Appalachian State. This will not happen immediately as the talent level is down in theVille. Yet this is a major time for Louisville, a team that has the chance to begin taking steps.
I have read in which the Cards coaches have popped up the slow mechanics of QB Jawon Pass (great name for a QB) and that I like Hassan Hall since the lead running back. Than using a ticket for the Colts at OVER 9 for season wins the protection, well, which makes me more nervous. Please do tell you have up your Irish.
Swinging Johnson: The Cardinals will not be doing flying into this match since the Notre Dame defense will keep them comfortable in their nest. Scott Satterfield is currently in the big leagues and he has a team coming from a dismal album this past year in which they went winless. This rebuild is akin to attempting to turn it in an F-22 Raptor and taking a hot air balloon.
While this may eventually occur, the issue is that Louisville is facing a team that made it into the CFP this past year and owned one of the stingiest defenses in all of college football, devoting only 17.2 points over the normal season and moving a perfect 12-0 until they fulfilled Clemson from the CFP semifinals. The offense clicked on all cylinders averaging 33 points per match over.
My question is, just how is a quarterback like Pass whos slow to release, designed to obtain any traction against a swarming defense that is Irish? Especially when he is working with a coach and an entirely new offensive strategy?
Please, Doug, save me Im lost! I find no way, shape or form where Louisville will be able to keep up and I am desperate for the sage wisdom and prodigious handicapping expertise!
Doug Upstone: Well, Swinger, Im pleased to see in your last sentence youre coming on to the glowing side of sports gambling, or you are simply being the identical wise a** you usually are. Ill let the SBR readers who are making this is decided on by college football selections. I am the first to realize Louisville was 1-11 ATS, although not just 2-10 and fully pumped final season.
However, that team COMPLETELY gave up on coach Bobby Petrino, just like he gave up about the Atlanta Falcons. A fresh attitude is brought by A coach and his team will be sold by Satterfield on building a statement, this being a match. Louisville does need to trust the Irish will take them and not have much fight.
Lets also consider, Brian Kelly using all the gold and blue is just 10-13-1 ATS as a road favorite, also a mere 7-9-1 ATS if dishing out 20 or more specimens. This defense you mentioned might improve as the year progresses but substituting five starters, even when you dont/cant recruit like Bama or Clemson, it is going to take some time.
Swinging Johnson: Well Doug, I was a bit facetious because although you have an handicapping that was impressive restart, you miss the mark from time to time. And in this circumstance, because Louisville might be greater but I would submit that they are coached with a Rhesus monkey and improve upon their deplorable record left by an awkward trainer like Petrino, you happen to be shooting blanks.
I know that laying nearly three touchdowns on the road is square biz for certain and Joe Q. Public never got rich by gambling the heavy road chalk, but at times the general public is correct, and also in this case they definitely are. Until once we get back on our NFL Game of the Week, next week, lets see what happens on Monday night 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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