Point/Counterpoint: Notre Dame vs Louisville – Free NCAAF Betting Picks
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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 picks on the Monday night game between the Louisville Cardinals and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and also I shall deviate from our regularly scheduled plan of NFL discussion to dip our feet.
It will almost certainly be the very first and only time this season we do so, as the last week of display NFL soccer is somewhat lackluster compared to a regular-season sport of NCAA soccer featuring one of the best clubs in the nation, plus a mythical football program to boot, Notre Dame.
Without further ado, lets start the debate after my friend Doug Upstone got the better of me last week with a wager on the Steelers while I supported the Titans. We have been placing wins back and forth so it looks like its my turn to the wreath, as I will accompany the squares putting the thick lumber on a road favorite and heartily endorse the Irish.
After reviewing the school football odds almost six days prior to the Monday night affair, I see that the lineup has spiked a half-point on the favorite, opening at Notre Dame -19 1/2 to where it is presently offered in a solid -20 round the board at all the best online sportsbooks.
Youre currently leaning on the Cardinals in this season-opening clash although I like the Irish. Apart from the place do you believe Louisville will hang with the boys?
Doug Upstone: Yup and a win IMO, said a lot about the direction of the Steelers and Titans. Lets move ahead to football, so will our recordings with this one and where the games rely.
Recall Louisville used to perform against competitions? They held their own and engineered several upsets. These were fun games to see and the Cardinals were an exciting club.
But for example the former Papa Johns Stadium as well as its fake (in real life) owner, Louisville soccer last year was worse than a three-day-old pizza.
Scott Satterfield will be out to change the civilization and win games and worked miracles in Appalachian State. This will not happen immediately as the talent level is down in theVille. Yet , this is a major time for Louisville, a team that has the chance.
Ive read in which the Cards trainers have popped up the slow mechanics of QB Jawon Pass (great name for a QB) and that I enjoy Hassan Hall as 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 up your Irish, please do tell.
Swinging Johnson: The Cardinals will not be doing as the Notre Dame defense will keep them cozy in their nest, flying into this match. Scott Satterfield is presently in the big leagues and he has a group last year, where they went winless in ACC activity coming from a dismal record. This rebuild is comparable to attempting to turn it and taking a hot air balloon.
While that may eventually happen, the issue is that Louisville is facing a team that made it into the CFP last year and possessed 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 until they met Clemson from the CFP semifinals. The Irish offense clicked on all cylinders as well, averaging over 33 points per match.
So, my issue is, how can be a quarterback like traveling who is slow to discharge, designed to gain any traction against a shield? Especially when hes working with an offensive scheme that is entirely new and a new coach?
Please, Doug, rescue me Im lost! I see no way, shape or form where Louisville is going to have the ability to keep pace and Im desperate to the ancestral wisdom and handicapping experience that is prodigious!
Doug Upstone: Well, Swinger, I am happy to see in your last sentence youre coming over to the sunny side of sports betting, or you are just being the identical wise a** you usually are. Ill let the SBR readers who are currently making this is decided on by college football picks. I am the first to realize Louisville completely sucked and was 1-11 ATS, although not only 2-10 final season.
Just like he gave up about the Atlanta Falcons, but that team COMPLETELY gave up on coach Bobby Petrino. A new attitude is brought by A new trainer on making a statement and this being a match, his staff will be sold by Satterfield. Louisville does need to hope not and the Irish will take them have much fight.
Let us also consider, Brian Kelly with the blue and gold is ATS as a road favorite, and a ATS, when dishing out more or 20 specimens. This defense you said may improve as the season progresses but substituting five starters, even whenever you dont/cant amuse like Clemson or Bama, it will take some time.
I was a bit facetious because although youve got an impressive handicapping restart, then you miss the mark from time to time. And in this case, because Louisville might be better than last year but I would submit that they could be coached by a Rhesus monkey and enhance upon their deplorable record left by an equally inept trainer like Petrino, you happen to be shooting blanks.
I understand that placing nearly three touchdowns on the street is square biz for certain along with Joe Q. Public never got rich by betting the heavy road chalk, but sometimes the people is correct, and also in this situation they surely are. Until when we get down on our NFL Game of the Week next week, lets see what happens on Monday 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)