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Notre Dame (9) vs Louisville
Monday, September 2 nd, 8:00 PM in Cardinal Stadium
Swinging Johnson: This week Doug Upstone and render our college football picks and also I shall deviate from our regularly scheduled plan of NFL discussion to dip our toes into uncharted waters.
It will probably be the first and only time this season we do this, as the previous week of display NFL soccer is somewhat lackluster in comparison to some regular-season sport of NCAA football featuring one of the greatest teams in the country, and a mythical soccer program to boot up, Notre Dame.
Without further ado, let us begin the discussion after my friend Doug Upstone got the better of me last week with a bet about the Steelers while the Titans were backed by me. We have been placing wins forth and back so it appears like its my turn to get the wreath, as I will accompany the squares putting the thick lumber on a road favorite and endorse the Irish.
After reviewing the college football odds almost six days before this Monday night affair, I see the lineup has spiked a half-point about the preferred, opening at Notre Dame -19 1/2 to where it is currently offered in a solid -20 round the board at all of the very best internet sportsbooks.
Doug, I love the Irish but youre leaning on the Cardinals. Besides the venue is it that you believe Louisville can hang with the boys?
Doug Upstone: Yes a convincing triumph and at least IMO, it said a lot about the management of the Steelers and Titans. Let us proceed to real soccer, in which the matches count and will our recordings on this one.
Recall Louisville utilized to play against big-name opponents? They held their engineered and own several upsets. These were fun games and the Cardinals were a thrilling golf club.
However, just like the former Papa Johns Stadium as well as its fake (in real life) proprietor, Louisville football last season was worse than a three-day-old pizza.
Scott Satterfield worked miracles and will be out win games and to alter the culture. This wont happen right away as the talent level is down from theVille. This is a moment for Louisville, a team which has the chance.
I have read in which the Cards trainers have sped up the slow mechanisms of QB Jawon Pass (good name for a QB) and I like Hassan Hall because the direct running back. Than having a ticket for the Colts at OVER 9 for season 23, the shield, well, which makes me more worried. Please do tell you have your Irish up.
Swinging Johnson: The Cardinals wont be doing much as the Notre Dame defense will keep them comfortable in their nest flying into this match. Scott Satterfield is in the big leagues and hes got a group coming off of a dismal 2-10 album this past year where they went winless in ACC activity. This rebuild is comparable to trying to turn it and carrying a hot air balloon.
While this may eventually happen, the problem is that Louisville is facing a team which 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 till they fulfilled Clemson from the CFP semifinals. The offense was clicking on all cylinders averaging 33 points per match over.
My query is, how can be a quarterback like Pass whos slow to release, designed to get some traction against a shield that is Irish? Particularly when he is working with an offensive strategy that is entirely new and a new trainer?
Please, Doug, rescue me I am lost! I see no way, shape or form in which Louisville will have the ability to keep up and Im desperate to your ancestral wisdom and prodigious handicapping experience!
Doug Upstone: Well, Swinger, Im pleased to read in your last sentence youre coming over to the bright side of sport gambling, or youre just being the exact wise a** you usually are. I will let the SBR readers who are currently making that is decided on by school football picks. I am the first to understand Louisville completely sucked and was 1-11 ATS, although not just 2-10 final season.
But that team COMPLETELY gave up on coach Bobby Petrino, like he gave up on the Atlanta Falcons. A new coach brings a new attitude and his staff will be sold by Satterfield on creating a statement this being a federal game. Louisville does need to hope never and they will not be taken by the Irish for granted have a lot of fight.
Let us also think about, Brian Kelly with the blue and gold is ATS as a road favorite, and a mere 7-9-1 ATS if dishing out more or 20 specimens. That defense you mentioned might improve as the season progresses but replacing five starters, if you dont/can not amuse like Bama or even Clemson, it will take time.
I was a bit facetious because although you have an handicapping that was impressive restart, then you miss the mark from time to time. And in this instance, because Louisville might be better compared to last year but I would submit that they are coached by a Rhesus monkey and improve upon their record rendered by an coach such as Petrino, you happen to be shooting blanks.
I know that placing nearly three touchdowns on the street is square biz for sure and Joe Q. Public never got rich by gambling the heavy road chalk, but sometimes the general public is correct, and in this case they definitely are. Until once we get back on our NFL Game of the Week, next week, let us see what happens on Monday night when the Irish come ready to squint at Louisville.
Free College Football Pick: Swinging Johnson — Notre Dame -20 (-110)
Free College Football Pick: Doug Upstone — Louisville +20 (-110)
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