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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 leave our college football selections on the Monday night game between the Louisville Cardinals and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and then also I will deviate to dip our feet into uncharted waters.
It will most likely be the very first and only time this season we do so, as the previous week of exhibition NFL soccer is somewhat lackluster compared to a regular-season game of NCAA soccer featuring one of the very best teams in the nation, plus a legendary football program to boot, Notre Dame.
Without further ado, lets start the debate after my buddy Doug Upstone got the best of me last week while the Titans were endorsed by me. We have been swapping wins back and forth so it looks like it is my turn for the gold wreath, as I heartily endorse the Irish and will follow the squares laying the heavy lumber onto a road favorite.
After reviewing the college football odds almost six days prior to this Monday night affair, I see the line has spiked a half-point about the favorite, opening at Notre Dame -19 1/2 to where it is now offered in a solid -20 round the board at all the best online sportsbooks.
I like the Irish but youre currently leaning to the Cardinals in this season-opening battle. Apart from the place do you think Louisville will hang with the boys out of South Bend?
Doug Upstone: Yup IMO and a successful triumph, said a great deal about both the Steelers and Titans direction. Let us move to soccer, will our records with this one and in which the matches count.
Remember Louisville used to play against opponents? They held their engineered and own upsets. These were enjoyable games and also the Cardinals were a thrilling golf club.
However, such as the former Papa Johns Stadium as well as its counterfeit (in real life) proprietor, Louisville soccer last year was worse than the usual three-day-old pizza.
Scott Satterfield will be out win games and to alter the civilization and worked wonders. This wont happen immediately as the ability level is down from theVille. Yet this is a moment for Louisville, a team that has the chance to start taking steps in the perfect direction.
I have read in which the Cards coaches have popped up the slow mechanisms of QB Jawon Pass (good name for a QB) and I enjoy Hassan Hall since the direct running back. The defense which makes me more worried than having a ticket for the Colts at OVER 9 for season wins. Why you have your Irish up please do tell.
Swinging Johnson: The Cardinals wont be doing much flying into this match since the Notre Dame defense will keep them snug in their nest. Scott Satterfield is now in the big leagues and hes got a group coming off of a dismal 2-10 record where they went winless in ACC activity this past year. This rebuild is comparable to attempting to turn it into an F-22 Raptor and taking a hot air balloon.
While this may eventually occur, the problem is that Louisville is facing a team that made it to the CFP this past year and possessed only one of the stingiest defenses in all of college football, surrendering just 17.2 points within the regular season and moving a perfect 12-0 until they fulfilled Clemson in the CFP semifinals. The offense clicked on all cylinders averaging 33 points per game over.
My question is, how is a quarterback like Pass who is slow to discharge, supposed to obtain some traction from a defense that is Irish? Particularly when hes working with an offensive scheme that is entirely new and a coach?
Please, Doug, save me I am lost! I find no way, shape or form where Louisville is going to be able to keep pace and I am desperate for handicapping expertise that is prodigious and the sage wisdom!
Doug Upstone: Well, Swinger, Im happy to read in your last sentence youre coming on to the bright side of sports gambling, or youre simply being the exact wise a** you are. Ill allow the SBR readers that are currently making this is decided on by school football picks. I am the first to understand Louisville fully pumped and was, but 1-11 ATS final season.
Like he gave up on the Atlanta Falcons However, that staff COMPLETELY gave up on coach Bobby Petrino. A coach brings a new attitude on creating a statement, and with this being a match, his staff will be sold by Satterfield. Louisville does have to hope they will not be taken by the Irish and never have a lot of fight.
Let us also consider, Brian Kelly using all the blue and gold is ATS as a road favorite, also a mere 7-9-1 ATS, if dishing out 20 or more digits. That defense you said may improve as the season advances but substituting five starters, even if you dont/cant amuse like Bama or even Clemson, it is going to take some time.
Swinging Johnson: Well Doug, I was becoming a bit facetious because although you have an handicapping resume, you miss the mark from time to time. And in this instance, because Louisville could be greater but I would submit that they could be coached by a Rhesus monkey and enhance upon their document left by an awkward coach like Petrino, you happen to be shooting blanks.
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 at times the public is correct, and also in this instance they certainly are. Until next week once we get back on our NFL Game of the Week, let us see what happens on Monday night when 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)