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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 from our regularly scheduled plan of NFL discussion to dip our feet into uncharted waters and also render our college 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 previous week of display NFL soccer is somewhat lackluster compared to some regular-season game of NCAA soccer comprising one of the greatest teams in the nation, and a legendary soccer program to boot up, Notre Dame.
Without further ado, lets start the discussion after my friend Doug Upstone got the better of me last week with a bet on the Steelers while the Titans were backed by me. We have been swapping wins forth and back so it appears like its my turn for the gold wreath, as I heartily endorse the Irish and will accompany the squares laying the lumber that is heavy onto a public street favorite.
After reviewing the school football odds nearly six days ahead of this Monday night affair, I see that the lineup has spiked a half-point about the preferred, opening at Notre Dame -19 1/2 to where its presently offered at a solid -20 throughout the board at all of the best online sportsbooks.
Doug, I like the Irish but you are leaning within this season-opening clash on the Cardinals. Other than the place do you believe Louisville could hang with the boys?
Doug Upstone: Yes IMO and a convincing win, it said a great deal about the direction of the Steelers and Titans. Let us move ahead to real soccer, in which the games rely and will our records with this one.
Recall those Thursday night games Louisville used to perform against big-name competitions? They more than held their engineered and own upsets. These were enjoyable games to see and the Cardinals were a thrilling club.
However, like the former Papa Johns Stadium as well as its phony (in real life) owner, Louisville football last year was worse than the usual three-day-old pizza.
Scott Satterfield worked wonders at Appalachian State and will be out win games and to change the civilization. This wont happen right away as the talent level is down in theVille. This is a time for Louisville, a group which has the chance to start taking actions.
I have read in which the Cards coaches have popped up the slow mechanics of QB Jawon Pass (good name for a QB) and I enjoy Hassan Hall as the lead running back. The shield that makes me more worried than using a ticket for the Colts at OVER 9. 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 into this game. Scott Satterfield is now in the big leagues and he has a group coming off of a dismal 2-10 album this past year, where they went winless in ACC activity. This rebuild is comparable to carrying a hot air balloon and trying to turn it.
While that may eventually happen, the issue is that Louisville is facing a team which made it into the CFP this past 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 offense was clicking on all cylinders averaging 33 points per game over.
So, my query is, just how will be a quarterback like traveling who is slow to discharge, supposed to get any traction against a swarming defense that is Irish? Particularly when he is working with an offensive scheme that is entirely new and a new trainer?
Please, Doug, save me I am lost! I find no way, shape or form in which Louisville will be able to keep pace and I am desperate for your ancestral wisdom and handicapping expertise that is prodigious!
Doug Upstone: Well, Swinger, Im happy to see in your last sentence youre coming on to the glowing side of sport betting, or youre simply being the same wise a** you usually are. I will let the SBR readers that are making school football picks decide on this. I am the first to understand Louisville was, however, 1-11 ATS and completely sucked last year.
Just like he gave up around the Atlanta Falcons, However, that staff COMPLETELY gave up on coach Bobby Petrino. A new coach brings a new mindset on making a statement, and this being a match, his staff will be sold by Satterfield. Louisville does have to hope the Irish will take them and never have a lot of fight.
Lets also consider, Brian Kelly using gold and all the blue is just 10-13-1 ATS as a road favorite, also a ATS, when dishing out more or 20 specimens. That defense you said might improve as the season progresses but substituting five starters, whenever you dont/can not recruit like Clemson or Bama, it is going to take some time.
I was becoming a bit facetious because although you have an impressive handicapping resume, then you miss the mark from time to time. And in this case, because Louisville could be greater than last year but I would submit that they are coached by a Rhesus monkey and enhance upon their deplorable document left by an equally inept coach such as Petrino you happen to be shooting blanks.
I understand that placing nearly 3 touchdowns on the street would be square biz for sure and Joe Q. Public never got rich by betting the heavy street chalk, but at times the public is right, and also in this instance they certainly are. Until once we get back on our NFL Game of the Week next 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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