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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 deviate from our regularly scheduled program of NFL discussion to dip our toes and render our school football selections on the Monday night match between the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and the Louisville Cardinals.
It will probably be the first and only time this season we do this, as the previous week of exhibition NFL football is somewhat lackluster in comparison to a regular-season sport of NCAA soccer featuring one of the top clubs in the country, plus a mythical soccer program to boot, Notre Dame.
Without further ado, lets begin the debate after my friend Doug Upstone got the best of me last week with a wager about the Steelers while the Titans were endorsed by me. We have been placing wins back and forth so it looks like its my turn to the wreath, as the Irish are heartily endorsed by me and will follow the squares putting the thick lumber on a public street favorite.
After reviewing the college soccer odds almost six days prior to the Monday night time, I see the line has spiked a half-point on the preferred, opening at Notre Dame -19 1/2 to where its now 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 clash on the Cardinals. Apart from the place is it that you believe Louisville will hang with the boys out of South Bend?
Doug Upstone: Yup a win and IMO, it said a great deal about the direction of both the Steelers and Titans. Lets move to football, will our records on this one and where the matches count.
Recall Louisville utilized to perform against competitions that are large scale? They held their engineered and own many upsets. These were fun games and also the Cardinals were an club.
However, such as the former Papa Johns Stadium and its fake (in real life) owner, Louisville football last season was worse than a three-day-old pizza.
Scott Satterfield are out to alter the civilization and win matches and worked wonders. This wont happen right away as the talent level is down in theVille. However , this is a time for Louisville, a team that has the opportunity to start taking steps.
I have read where the Cards coaches have sped up the slow mechanisms of QB Jawon Pass (good name for a QB) and that I enjoy Hassan Hall as the lead running back. Than having a ticket for the Colts at OVER 9 the protection, well, which makes me more nervous. Please do tell why youve got up your Irish.
Swinging Johnson: The Cardinals wont be doing much flying into this game since the Notre Dame defense will keep them comfortable in their nest. Scott Satterfield is in the big leagues and he has a team coming from a dismal record last year where they went winless. This rebuild is comparable to trying to turn it and carrying a hot air balloon.
While that may eventually occur, the problem is that Louisville is confronting a team which made it to 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 moving a perfect 12-0 till they met Clemson from the CFP semifinals. The offense was clicking on all cylinders as well, averaging over 33 points per game.
My issue is, just how can be a quarterback like traveling whos slow to discharge, designed to gain some traction against a swarming Irish shield? Especially when hes working with a new trainer and an offensive scheme that is entirely new?
Please, Doug, save me Im lost! I see no way, shape or form in which Louisville is going to have the ability to keep up and I am desperate for handicapping expertise that is prodigious and the ancestral wisdom!
Doug Upstone: Well, Swinger, I am pleased to read in your last sentence youre coming around to the sunny side of sports gambling, or you are just being the identical wise a** you usually are. Ill let the SBR readers that are making this is decided on by college football selections. I am the first to realize Louisville completely sucked and was 1-11 ATS, although not only 2-10 last year.
Just like he gave up around the Atlanta Falcons but that team COMPLETELY gave up on coach Bobby Petrino. A new mindset is brought by A trainer on building a statement and this being a game, his team will be sold by Satterfield. Louisville does need to trust not and the Irish will take them for granted have a lot of fight.
Lets also consider, Brian Kelly using the blue and gold is just 10-13-1 ATS as a road favorite, and a mere 7-9-1 ATS when dishing out more or 20 specimens. That defense you mentioned could improve as the year progresses but replacing five starters, if you dont/can not recruit like Clemson or Bama, it will take some time.
Swinging Johnson: Well Doug, I was becoming a bit facetious because though you have an handicapping resume, then you miss the mark from time to time. And in this scenario, because Louisville might be greater but Id submit that they are coached by a Rhesus monkey and improve upon their deplorable document rendered by an trainer such as Petrino, you happen to be shooting blanks.
I understand that placing nearly three touchdowns on the street would be square biz for sure and Joe Q. Public never got rich by betting the heavy road chalk, but on occasion the people is correct, and in this situation they are. Until when we get back on our NFL Game of the Week next week, let us see what happens on Monday night once 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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