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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 detract to dip our toes and then also 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 season we do so, as the last week of exhibition NFL football is somewhat lackluster in comparison to a regular-season game of NCAA football featuring one of the greatest teams in the country, plus a mythical soccer program to boot, Notre Dame.
Without further ado, lets 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 on and back so it looks like its my turn to get the golden wreath, as I endorse the Irish and will accompany the squares laying the lumber that is heavy on a road favorite.
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 best online sportsbooks.
I like the Irish but youre currently leaning within this battle onto the Cardinals. Apart from the venue is it that you think Louisville can hang with the boys?
Doug Upstone: Yup , Swinger, and a successful win IMO, said a great deal about the management of the Steelers and Titans. Lets move to football, will our records with this one and in which the games count.
Remember Louisville used to perform against competitions that are big-name? They held their engineered and own upsets. These were enjoyable games and also the Cardinals were a thrilling club.
However, such as the former Papa Johns Stadium and its fake (in real life) owner, Louisville soccer last year was worse than the usual three-day-old pizza.
Scott Satterfield worked wonders and are out win matches and to alter the culture. This wont happen immediately as the ability level is down in theVille. This is a time for Louisville, a group which has the chance.
Ive read where the Cards coaches have sped up the slow mechanisms of QB Jawon Pass (good name for a QB) and I like Hassan Hall as the lead running back. The protection, well, that makes me more nervous than having a ticket for the Colts at OVER 9 for season wins. You have up your Irish, please do tell.
Swinging Johnson: The Cardinals wont be doing since 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 last year, in which they went winless in ACC action coming off of a dismal 2-10 record. This rebuild is akin to attempting to turn it in an F-22 Raptor and carrying a hot air balloon.
While that may eventually occur, the issue is that Louisville is confronting a group which made it into the CFP this past year and possessed only one of the stingiest defenses in all of college football, devoting only 17.2 points over the regular season and moving a perfect 12-0 till they met Clemson from the CFP semifinals. The Irish offense was clicking on all cylinders also, averaging 33 points per match over.
So, my issue is, how can be a quarterback like traveling whos slow to release, designed to obtain any traction against a shield? Particularly when he is working with a new trainer and an offensive scheme that is entirely new?
Please, Doug, save me Im lost! I find no way, shape or form in which Louisville will have the ability to keep pace and I am desperate for prodigious handicapping experience and your sage wisdom!
Doug Upstone: Well, Swinger, Im pleased to see in your last sentence youre coming on to the sunny side of sport gambling, or youre just being the exact shrewd a** you usually are. Ill let the SBR readers who are making this is decided on by school football picks. Im the first to realize Louisville was 1-11 ATS, although not only 2-10 and completely sucked final season.
However, that staff COMPLETELY gave up on coach Bobby Petrino, like he gave up on the Atlanta Falcons. A trainer brings a new attitude and his staff will be sold by Satterfield on making a statement, this being a match. Louisville does need to trust the Irish will take them for granted and never have much fight.
Lets also consider, Brian Kelly with the blue and gold is just 10-13-1 ATS as a road favorite, and a mere 7-9-1 ATS if dishing out 20 or more specimens. This defense you said might improve as the season progresses but substituting five starters, even whenever you dont/can not 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 resume, then you miss the mark from time to time. And in this case, you happen to be shooting blanks because Louisville might be better but Id submit that they are coached with a Rhesus monkey and improve upon their deplorable document left by an inept trainer like Petrino.
I know that laying nearly three touchdowns on the road would be square biz for sure along with Joe Q. Public never got rich by gambling the heavy road chalk, but sometimes the public is correct, and also in this situation they definitely are. Until once we get back on our NFL Game of the Week next week, lets see what happens on Monday once 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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