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Notre Dame (9) vs Louisville
Monday, September 2 nd, 8:00 PM in Cardinal Stadium
Swinging Johnson: This week Doug Upstone and I shall detract to dip our feet and then also render our college football picks on the Monday night match between the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and the Louisville Cardinals.
It will most likely be the very first and only time this season we do this, as the last week of display NFL football is somewhat lackluster in comparison to some regular-season sport of NCAA soccer featuring one of the best teams in the country, plus a mythical football program to boot, Notre Dame.
Without further ado, let us begin the discussion after my buddy Doug Upstone got the better of me last week with a bet about the Steelers while I supported the Titans. We have been placing wins on and back so it appears like its my turn to the wreath, as I endorse the Irish and will accompany the squares putting the thick lumber on a public road favorite.
After reviewing the college football odds almost six days ahead of the Monday night affair, I see that the line 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 throughout the board at all of the very best online sportsbooks.
I like the Irish but youre currently leaning onto the Cardinals in this season-opening battle. Aside from the place is it that you believe Louisville will hang with the boys from South Bend?
Doug Upstone: Yup Swinger, a convincing triumph and at least IMO, it said a great deal about the Steelers and Titans management. Lets move to soccer, in which the games count and so will our recordings on this one.
Remember Louisville used to play against opponents that are big-name? They held their engineered and own upsets. These were fun games and the Cardinals were an golf club.
However, 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 worked wonders in Appalachian State and will be out to change the culture and win games. This will not happen immediately as the ability level is down in theVille. Yet this is a time for Louisville, a team which has the chance to start taking actions in the perfect direction.
I have read in which the Cards trainers have sped up the slow mechanics of QB Jawon Pass (great name for a QB) and that I like Hassan Hall as the lead running back. The shield that makes me more worried than having a ticket for the Colts at OVER 9 for season wins. Please do tell youve got your Irish up.
Swinging Johnson: The Cardinals wont be doing much flying into this game since the Notre Dame defense will keep them cozy in their nest. Scott Satterfield is now in the big leagues and he has a team coming from a dismal 2-10 album in which they went winless in ACC action this past year. 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 facing a group that 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 within the regular season and going a perfect 12-0 till they met Clemson from the CFP semifinals. The offense was clicking on all cylinders also, averaging 33 points per match over.
So, my issue is, how can be a quarterback like Pass whos slow to discharge, designed to get any traction against a swarming defense that is Irish? Especially when he is working with an entirely new offensive scheme and a trainer?
Please, Doug, save me I am lost! I see no way, shape or form in which Louisville is going to be able to keep pace and I am desperate to your ancestral wisdom and handicapping expertise that is prodigious!
Doug Upstone: Well, Swinger, I am happy to see in your last sentence you are coming on to the glowing side of sport betting, or youre simply being the exact identical wise a** you usually are. I will let the SBR readers who are currently making school football selections decide on that. Im the first to understand Louisville fully pumped and was not only 2-10, however, 1-11 ATS final year.
Just like he composed on the Atlanta Falcons, but that staff COMPLETELY gave up on coach Bobby Petrino. A new coach brings a fresh attitude and his staff will be sold by Satterfield on building a statement, this being a game. Louisville does need to expect never and the Irish will take them for granted have a lot of fight.
Let us also consider, Brian Kelly with all the blue and gold is only 10-13-1 ATS as a road favorite, and when dishing out 20 or more digits, a mere 7-9-1 ATS. This defense you mentioned may improve as the season progresses but substituting five starters, when you dont/can not amuse like Clemson or Bama, it will take time.
I was being a bit facetious because although you have an handicapping restart, then you miss the mark from time to time. And in this case, you happen to be shooting blanks because Louisville could be greater but I would submit that they are coached by a Rhesus monkey and enhance upon their deplorable record rendered by an coach such as Petrino.
I understand that laying nearly three touchdowns on the street is square biz for certain along with Joe Q. Public never got rich by gambling the heavy road chalk, but sometimes the people is right, and in this case they really are. Until when we get back on our NFL Game of the Week next week, lets see what happens on Monday 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)
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