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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 school football selections on the Monday night game between the Louisville Cardinals and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and also I shall detract from our regularly scheduled program of NFL debate to dip our toes into uncharted waters.
It will probably be the very first and only time this year we do so, as the last week of exhibition NFL soccer is somewhat lackluster in comparison to some regular-season sport of NCAA football comprising one of the greatest teams in the nation, and a legendary football program to boot up, Notre Dame.
Without further ado, lets start the debate after my friend Doug Upstone got the better of me last week while I endorsed the Titans. We have been swapping wins back and forth so it appears like its my turn for the wreath, as the Irish are heartily endorsed by me and will accompany each of the squares putting the thick lumber onto a public street favorite.
After reviewing the school football odds nearly six days before this Monday night event, I see 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 across the board at all the best internet sportsbooks.
You are currently leaning to the Cardinals although I enjoy the Irish. Apart from the place do you think Louisville could hang with the boys out of South Bend?
Doug Upstone: Yup at least and a triumph IMO, it said a great deal about the Steelers and Titans direction. Lets proceed to real soccer, so will our recordings with this one and where the matches rely.
Recall those Thursday night matches Louisville utilized to play against big-name competitions? They held their engineered and own upsets. These were enjoyable games to see and the Cardinals were a thrilling golf club.
However, like the former Papa Johns Stadium as well as its counterfeit (in real life) owner, Louisville football last season was worse than a three-day-old pizza.
Scott Satterfield will be out win games and to change the civilization and worked miracles. This wont occur right away because the talent level is down from theVille. Yet this is a moment for Louisville, a group which has the opportunity to begin taking actions.
Ive read where the Cards coaches have sped up on the slow mechanisms of QB Jawon Pass (good name for a QB) and that I enjoy Hassan Hall as the direct running back. The shield which makes me more worried than having a ticket for the Colts at OVER 9. Please do tell youve got up your Irish.
Swinging Johnson: The Cardinals will not be doing as the Notre Dame defense will keep them snug in their nest flying in this match. Scott Satterfield is in the big leagues and hes got a team this past year, in which they went winless in ACC activity coming off of a dismal 2-10 listing. This rebuild is akin to attempting to turn it into an F-22 Raptor and taking a hot air balloon.
While this may eventually occur, the issue is that Louisville is confronting a group that 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 within the normal season and going a perfect 12-0 until they met Clemson from the CFP semifinals. The Irish offense clicked on all cylinders averaging 33 points per match over.
So, my question is, just how is a quarterback like traveling who is slow to discharge, designed 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, rescue me I am lost! I see no way, shape or form in which Louisville will have the ability to keep up and Im desperate for your sage wisdom and handicapping experience that is prodigious!
Doug Upstone: Well, Swinger, Im glad to see in your last sentence youre coming on to the glowing side of sport gambling, or youre just being the same wise a** you usually are. I will allow the SBR readers who are currently making that is decided on by school football selections. Im the first to understand Louisville completely sucked and was, however, 1-11 ATS last year.
Just like he gave up about the Atlanta Falcons, but that team COMPLETELY gave up on coach Bobby Petrino. A new mindset is brought by A coach on building a statement and with this being a national game, his staff will be sold by Satterfield. Louisville does need to trust not and they will not be taken by the Irish for granted have much fight.
Let us also consider, Brian Kelly using all the blue and gold is only 10-13-1 ATS as a road favorite, also a mere 7-9-1 ATS, when dishing out 20 or more specimens. That defense you said may improve as the year progresses but substituting five starters, even when you dont/can not amuse like Clemson or even Bama, it will take some time.
Swinging Johnson: Well Doug, I was becoming a bit facetious because though youve got an handicapping resume, you miss the mark from time to time. And in this event, you happen to be shooting blanks because Louisville might be greater compared to last year but I would submit that they could be trained with a Rhesus monkey and enhance upon their deplorable document rendered by an equally inept trainer such as Petrino.
I know that placing nearly three touchdowns on the street is square biz for certain and Joe Q. Public never got rich by gambling the heavy road chalk, but on occasion the public is right, and also in this situation they certainly are. Until when we get down on our NFL Game of the Week next week, lets see what happens on Monday night 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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