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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 I shall detract to dip our feet into uncharted waters and leave our college football selections on the Monday night game between the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and the Louisville Cardinals.
It will most likely 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 a regular-season sport of NCAA soccer featuring one of the very best teams in the nation, plus a mythical football program to boot up, Notre Dame.
Without further ado, let us start the discussion after my friend Doug Upstone got the best of me last week with a wager about the Steelers while I backed the Titans. We have been swapping wins forth and back so it appears like it is my turn to the wreath, as the Irish are heartily endorsed by me and will follow each of the squares laying the lumber on a public street favorite.
After reviewing the college football odds nearly six days ahead of the Monday night affair, I see the line has spiked a half-point about the preferred, starting at Notre Dame -19 1/2 to where its currently offered at a solid -20 throughout the board at all the very best online sportsbooks.
I like the Irish but youre currently leaning onto the Cardinals. Apart from the place, why do you think Louisville could hang with the boys?
Doug Upstone: Yes and a convincing triumph IMO, it said a great deal about the direction of the Steelers and Titans. Let us move to football, in which the games count and so will our recordings with this one.
Remember those Thursday night matches Louisville used to play against competitions that are big-name? They held their own and engineered upsets. These were fun games and the Cardinals were an exciting golf club.
However, just for example 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 are out to alter the civilization and win games and worked wonders at Appalachian State. This will not happen right away as the talent level is down from theVille. Nonetheless, this is a moment for Louisville, a team which has the chance to begin taking actions in the perfect direction.
I have read in which the Cards coaches have popped up the slow mechanisms of QB Jawon Pass (great name for a QB) and that I enjoy Hassan Hall because the lead running back. Than using a ticket for the Colts at OVER 9 the protection, well, that makes me more nervous. You have up your Irish 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 game. Scott Satterfield is in the big leagues and he has a group coming from a dismal record last year, in which they went winless in ACC activity. This rebuild is comparable to taking a hot air balloon and trying to turn it into an F-22 Raptor.
While this may eventually occur, the problem is that Louisville is facing a group that made it into the CFP last year and owned one of the stingiest defenses in all of college football, devoting only 17.2 points within the regular season and moving a perfect 12-0 till they fulfilled Clemson in the CFP semifinals. The offense clicked on all cylinders also, averaging over 33 points per game.
My question is, just how is a quarterback like Pass who is slow to discharge, supposed to gain any traction against a Irish shield? Especially when hes working with a new trainer and an offensive strategy that is entirely new?
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 pace and Im desperate to prodigious handicapping experience and the ancestral wisdom!
Doug Upstone: Well, Swinger, I am happy to see in your last sentence youre coming around to the glowing side of sport gambling, or youre just being the exact wise a** you usually are. Ill let the SBR readers who are currently making college football selections decide on that. I am the first to understand Louisville was not just 2-10, however 1-11 ATS and sucked final year.
Just like he gave up about the Atlanta Falcons, However, that team COMPLETELY gave up on coach Bobby Petrino. A new attitude is brought by A trainer and with this being a game, Satterfield will market his team on making a statement. Louisville does need to trust never and they will not be taken by the Irish for granted have much fight.
Let us also consider, Brian Kelly with the blue and gold is simply 10-13-1 ATS as a road favorite, and a ATS, if dishing out 20 or more specimens. This defense you mentioned may improve as the season progresses but replacing five starters, even if you dont/can not recruit like Bama or even Clemson, it is going to take time.
I was becoming a bit facetious because although you have an handicapping restart, then you miss the mark from time to time. And in this situation, because Louisville might be greater than last year but I would submit that they are trained with a Rhesus monkey and improve upon their document rendered by an trainer such as Petrino, you happen to be shooting blanks.
I know that placing nearly three touchdowns on the road would be square biz for certain along with Joe Q. Public never got rich by gambling the heavy street chalk, but on occasion the people is right, and in this case they are. Until next week when we get down on our NFL Game of the Week, let us see what happens on Monday 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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