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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 render our college football picks on the Monday night match between the Louisville Cardinals and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and then I shall disagree to dip our feet into uncharted waters.
It will probably be the very first and only time this season we do so, as the last week of exhibition NFL soccer is somewhat lackluster compared to a regular-season game of NCAA soccer comprising one of the best teams in the nation, and a mythical football program to boot up, Notre Dame.
Without further ado, let us begin the discussion after my friend Doug Upstone got the best of me last week with a bet about the Steelers while I supported the Titans. We have been swapping wins forth and back so it looks like it is my turn to get the wreath, as I will accompany the squares laying the lumber that is heavy on a public road favorite and heartily endorse the Irish.
After reviewing the school football odds nearly six days ahead of the Monday night event, I see that the line has spiked a half-point on the preferred, opening at Notre Dame -19 1/2 to where its presently offered at a solid -20 round the board at all the best internet sportsbooks.
Doug, I enjoy the Irish but you are leaning within this season-opening clash on the Cardinals. Apart from the venue is it that you believe Louisville will hang with the boys in South Bend?
Doug Upstone: Yes at least and a win IMO, it said a lot about the Steelers and Titans management. Let us move ahead to football, will our recordings on this one and in which the games rely.
Remember Louisville used to play against big-name opponents? They held their own and engineered several upsets. These were fun games and also the Cardinals were an exciting club.
But like the former Papa Johns Stadium as well as its phony (in real life) proprietor, Louisville football last season was worse than the usual three-day-old pizza.
Scott Satterfield are out to alter the civilization and win matches and worked wonders in Appalachian State. This wont happen right away as the ability level is down in theVille. This is a major moment for Louisville, a team which has the chance.
I have read in which the Cards coaches have sped up the slow mechanisms of QB Jawon Pass (great name for a QB) and that I like Hassan Hall since the direct running back. Than using a ticket for the Colts at OVER 9 for season 23, the defense, well, that makes me more nervous. Why you have your Irish up, please dont forget.
Swinging Johnson: The Cardinals wont be doing flying in this match since the Notre Dame defense will keep them comfortable in their nest. Scott Satterfield is in the big leagues and hes got a group coming from a dismal 2-10 album this past year in which they went winless. This rebuild is akin to taking a hot air balloon and trying to turn it.
While this may eventually occur, the issue is that Louisville is confronting a group which made it into the CFP last year and possessed only one of the stingiest defenses in all of college football, devoting only 17.2 points over the regular season and going a perfect 12-0 until they met Clemson in the CFP semifinals. The offense was clicking on all cylinders as well, averaging 33 points per game over.
So, my query is, just how will be a quarterback like traveling whos slow to discharge, designed to gain any traction against a swarming shield? Particularly when he is working with a coach and an offensive scheme that is entirely new?
Please, Doug, save me I am lost! I find no way, shape or form in which Louisville will be able to keep up with this Golden Domers and I am desperate to handicapping experience that is prodigious and the ancestral wisdom!
Doug Upstone: Well, Swinger, Im pleased to see in your last sentence you are coming on to the bright side of sport gambling, or youre just being the same shrewd a** you usually are. I will allow the SBR readers that are making this is decided on by college football selections. Im the first to understand Louisville was 1-11 ATS, although not just 2-10 and completely sucked final season.
Like he gave up about the Atlanta Falcons However, coach Bobby Petrino was given up on by that staff COMPLETELY. A trainer brings a new mindset and with this being a federal match, Satterfield will sell his team on making a statement. Louisville does need to expect they will not be taken by the Irish and never have a lot of fight.
Lets also think about, Brian Kelly using the blue and gold is simply 10-13-1 ATS as a road favorite, and a mere 7-9-1 ATS if dishing out more or 20 specimens. This defense you mentioned might improve as the season progresses but replacing five starters, whenever you dont/cant recruit like Bama or Clemson, it is going to take time.
I was a bit facetious because though you have an handicapping restart, you miss the mark from time to time. And in this instance, you happen to be shooting, since Louisville might be better compared to last year but Id submit that they are coached by a Rhesus monkey and improve upon their deplorable record rendered by an equally awkward coach such as Petrino.
I know that placing nearly three touchdowns on the road would be square biz for sure and Joe Q. Public never got rich by betting the heavy street chalk, but at times the general public is right, and in this case they are. Until once we get down on our NFL Game of the Week next week, lets see what happens on Monday night when the Irish come prepared 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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