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 in Cardinal Stadium
Swinging Johnson: This week Doug Upstone and render our school football picks on the Monday night match between the Louisville Cardinals and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and then that I will detract from our regularly scheduled plan of NFL debate to dip our feet.
It will probably be the very first and only time this year we do this, as the last week of display NFL soccer is somewhat lackluster compared to some regular-season sport of NCAA football comprising one of the top teams in the nation, and a legendary football program to boot up, Notre Dame.
Without further ado, let us begin the debate after my buddy Doug Upstone got the best of me last week while I backed the Titans. Weve been placing wins back and on so it looks like it is my turn for the wreath, as I will follow each of the squares laying the lumber that is heavy on a public street favorite and heartily endorse the Irish.
After reviewing the college football odds almost six days before this Monday night event, I see that the lineup has spiked a half-point on the preferred, opening at Notre Dame -19 1/2 to where its currently offered at a solid -20 round the board at all the best internet sportsbooks.
Doug, I like the Irish but youre leaning on the Cardinals within this battle. Apart from the venue is it that you believe Louisville will hang with the boys in South Bend?
Doug Upstone: Yup and a triumph IMO, it said a great deal about the Steelers and Titans direction. Lets move to real soccer, will our records on this one and in which the matches rely.
Remember those Thursday night matches Louisville utilized to perform against opponents that are big-name? They more than held their own and engineered several upsets. These were enjoyable games and the Cardinals were an exciting club.
However, such as the former Papa Johns Stadium and its phony (in real life) owner, Louisville football last season was worse than the usual three-day-old pizza.
Scott Satterfield are out to alter the civilization and win matches and worked miracles at Appalachian State. This wont happen immediately as the talent level is down from theVille. Nonetheless, this is a huge moment for Louisville, a team that has the opportunity to begin taking steps 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 I like Hassan Hall since the lead running back. The defense, well, that makes me more nervous than having a ticket for the Colts at OVER 9. Please do tell you have your Irish up.
Swinging Johnson: The Cardinals wont be doing as the Notre Dame defense will keep them snug in their nest flying in this game. Scott Satterfield is in the big leagues and he has a group coming from a dismal record last year where they went winless in ACC action. This rebuild is akin to taking a hot air balloon and attempting to turn it in an F-22 Raptor.
While this may eventually happen, the issue is that Louisville is facing a group that made it to the CFP last year and owned 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 until they met Clemson from the CFP semifinals. The offense was clicking on all cylinders averaging over 33 points per game.
So, my query is, how will be a quarterback like traveling who is slow to discharge, supposed to gain any traction against a defense that is Irish? Especially when hes working with an offensive strategy that is entirely new and a new trainer?
Please, Doug, save me I am lost! I see no way, shape or form in which Louisville is going to be able to keep up with the Golden Domers and I am desperate for handicapping expertise that is prodigious and your ancestral wisdom!
Doug Upstone: Well, Swinger, I am happy to see in your last sentence youre coming on to the sunny side of sports gambling, or you are simply being the exact identical wise a** you are. I will let the SBR readers who are currently making school football picks decide on this. 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, just like he gave up about the Atlanta Falcons. A coach brings a new mindset and his team will be sold by Satterfield on making a statement, this being a national match. Louisville does have to trust the Irish will take them and never have a lot of fight.
Let us also think about, Brian Kelly using the gold and blue is just 10-13-1 ATS as a road favorite, and a ATS when dishing out 20 or more digits. This defense you said may improve as the season progresses but substituting five starters, if you dont/cant amuse like Clemson or even Bama, it is going to take some time.
Swinging Johnson: Well Doug, I was a bit facetious because though you have an impressive handicapping resume, then you miss the mark from time to time. And in this case, because Louisville might be greater but I would submit that they could be trained by a Rhesus monkey and improve upon their deplorable record left by an trainer like Petrino, you happen to be shooting blanks.
I know that laying nearly 3 touchdowns on the street is square biz for certain along with Joe Q. Public never got rich by betting the heavy road chalk, but sometimes the general public is correct, and also in this situation they surely are. Until when we get back on our NFL Game of the Week next week, lets see what happens on Monday night once 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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