Point/Counterpoint: Notre Dame vs Louisville – Free NCAAF Betting Picks
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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 that I will deviate to dip our toes and leave our school football picks on the Monday night game between the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and the Louisville Cardinals.
It will almost certainly be the very first and only time this year we do this, as the last week of exhibition NFL soccer is somewhat lackluster in comparison to a regular-season game of NCAA football featuring one of the best teams in the country, and a mythical football program to boot, Notre Dame.
Without further ado, let us start the debate after my buddy Doug Upstone got the better of me last week while I supported the Titans. We have been placing wins back and forth so it appears like it is my turn for the wreath, as the Irish are heartily endorsed by me and will accompany all the squares putting the thick lumber on a public road favorite.
After reviewing the school football odds almost six days ahead of the Monday night affair, I see that the lineup has spiked a half-point about the favorite, starting at Notre Dame -19 1/2 to where it is now offered in a solid -20 across the board whatsoever the very best online sportsbooks.
Youre currently leaning onto the Cardinals within this season-opening clash although I enjoy the Irish. Other than the place, why is it that you think Louisville will hang with the boys?
Doug Upstone: Yup at least and a win IMO, said a great deal about the direction of the Steelers and Titans. Lets move to real football, will our records with this one and in which the matches rely.
Remember Louisville used to play against big-name competitions? They held their own and engineered several upsets. These were fun games and also the Cardinals were a thrilling golf club.
However, such as the former Papa Johns Stadium and its phony (in real life) proprietor, Louisville football last season was worse than a three-day-old pizza.
Scott Satterfield are out to alter the civilization and win matches and worked wonders. This will not happen immediately as the talent level is down from theVille. Yet , this is a big time for Louisville, a team which has the chance.
I have read in which the Cards coaches have popped up the slow mechanisms of QB Jawon Pass (good name for a QB) and I enjoy Hassan Hall since the direct running back. The shield that makes me more nervous than using a ticket for the Colts at OVER 9 for season wins. Why you have your Irish up please do tell.
Swinging Johnson: The Cardinals wont be doing much as the Notre Dame defense will keep them snug in their nest flying into this match. Scott Satterfield is in the big leagues and he has a group coming off of a dismal record in which they went winless in ACC activity last year. This rebuild is comparable to trying to turn it and taking a hot air balloon.
While that may eventually occur, the problem is that Louisville is facing a group that made it into the CFP last year and owned only one of the stingiest defenses in all of college football, devoting only 17.2 points over the normal season and going a perfect 12-0 till they met Clemson in the CFP semifinals. The Irish offense was clicking on all cylinders also, averaging 33 points per match over.
So, my query is, just how is a quarterback like traveling whos slow to release, designed to gain some traction against a defense? Particularly when hes working with a coach and an offensive scheme?
Please, Doug, rescue me I am lost! I see no way, shape or form in which Louisville is going to have the ability to keep up and I am desperate to your ancestral wisdom and prodigious handicapping expertise!
Doug Upstone: Well, Swinger, Im happy to see in your last sentence you are coming on to the sunny side of sports gambling, or you are just being the identical shrewd a** you usually are. Ill let the SBR readers who are making that is decided on by school football selections. Im the first to recognize Louisville fully pumped and was 1-11 ATS, although not only 2-10 past season.
But that staff COMPLETELY gave up on coach Bobby Petrino, like he gave up around the Atlanta Falcons. A coach brings a fresh mindset and his staff will be sold by Satterfield on building a statement this being a national game. Louisville does have to hope that the Irish will take them and not have much fight.
Let us also think about, Brian Kelly using the blue and gold is only 10-13-1 ATS as a road favorite, also a mere 7-9-1 ATS, when dishing out more or 20 digits. That defense you said may improve as the season progresses but replacing five starters, even whenever you dont/cant recruit like Clemson or Bama, it is going to take some time.
I was becoming a bit facetious because though you have an impressive handicapping restart, then you miss the mark from time to time. And in this event, because Louisville could be greater than last year but Id submit that they could be coached with a Rhesus monkey and improve upon their deplorable document left by an coach like Petrino you happen to be shooting blanks.
I know that placing nearly three touchdowns on the street is square biz for certain and Joe Q. Public never got rich by gambling the heavy road chalk, but at times the people is right, and in this case they are. Until once we get down on our NFL Game of the Week next week, let us see what happens on Monday 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)