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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 selections and I will detract from our regularly scheduled program of NFL debate to dip our feet into uncharted waters.
It will almost certainly be the very first and only time this season we do so, as the previous week of exhibition NFL football is somewhat lackluster compared to some regular-season game of NCAA football featuring one of the best teams in the country, plus a mythical soccer program to boot up, Notre Dame.
Without further ado, let us start the debate 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 swapping wins back and forth so it appears like its my turn to the wreath, as the Irish are heartily endorsed by me and will follow all the squares laying the heavy lumber onto a street favorite.
After reviewing the college football odds nearly six days prior to the Monday night affair, I see the line has spiked a half-point about the preferred, opening at Notre Dame -19 1/2 to where its now offered in a solid -20 throughout the board at all of the very best online sportsbooks.
You are currently leaning onto the Cardinals although I love the Irish. Besides the venue do you think Louisville will hang with the boys in South Bend?
Doug Upstone: Yup Swinger, and a triumph IMO, said a great deal about both the Steelers and Titans direction. Let us proceed to real soccer, will our recordings with this one and in which the matches count.
Recall those Thursday night matches Louisville used to perform against big-name opponents? They held their engineered and own several upsets. These were fun games and also the Cardinals were an club.
However, like the former Papa Johns Stadium and its phony (in real life) proprietor, Louisville football last year was worse than a three-day-old pizza.
Scott Satterfield worked wonders and will be out to alter the civilization and win matches. This will not happen right away as the ability level is down from theVille. Yet this is a big moment for Louisville, a group which has the opportunity to begin taking actions in the perfect direction.
Ive read where the Cards trainers have popped up the slow mechanics of QB Jawon Pass (great name for a QB) and that I like Hassan Hall because the direct running back. Than using a ticket for the Colts at OVER 9 for season 23, the protection which makes me more worried. Why you have your Irish up, please dont forget.
Swinging Johnson: The Cardinals will not be doing as the Notre Dame defense will keep them comfortable in their nest flying in this game. Scott Satterfield is currently in the big leagues and he has a team last year, in which they went winless coming from a dismal record. This rebuild is akin to seeking to turn it and taking a hot air balloon.
While this may eventually occur, the issue is that Louisville is facing a group 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 within the normal season and going a perfect 12-0 till they fulfilled Clemson from the CFP semifinals. The offense clicked on all cylinders averaging 33 points per game over.
My issue is, how will be a quarterback like Pass whos slow to discharge, supposed to obtain some traction against a swarming Irish defense? Particularly when he is working with a completely new offensive strategy and a coach?
Please, Doug, save me I am lost! I see no way, shape or form where Louisville will have the ability to keep up with this Golden Domers and I am desperate for handicapping experience that is prodigious and your brand new wisdom!
Doug Upstone: Well, Swinger, Im happy to read in your last sentence you are coming around to the sunny side of sport gambling, or you are simply being the identical wise a** you usually are. Ill let the SBR readers who are currently making school football selections decide on that. I am the first to understand Louisville was 1-11 ATS, although not just 2-10 and fully pumped final season.
Just like he composed on the Atlanta Falcons, but that staff COMPLETELY gave up on coach Bobby Petrino. A new mindset is brought by A new trainer and his staff will be sold by Satterfield on creating a statement, with this being a match. Louisville does have to hope not and they will not be taken by that the Irish for granted have much fight.
Let us also consider, Brian Kelly with gold and the blue is just 10-13-1 ATS as a road favorite, also a mere 7-9-1 ATS, if dishing out more or 20 digits. This defense you mentioned may improve as the season progresses but substituting five starters, if you dont/cant amuse like Clemson or Bama, it is going to take some time.
I was being a bit facetious because though you have an impressive handicapping restart, you miss the mark from time to time. And in this situation, you happen to be shooting, since Louisville might be better but Id submit that they could be trained by a Rhesus monkey and enhance upon their deplorable document rendered by an coach such as Petrino.
I know that placing nearly three touchdowns on the road is square biz for certain and Joe Q. Public never got rich by betting the heavy street chalk, but sometimes the general public is correct, and also in this instance they are. Until when 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 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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