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 in Cardinal Stadium
Swinging Johnson: This week Doug Upstone and that I shall deviate to dip our feet into uncharted waters and render our school football picks on the Monday night game between the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and the Louisville Cardinals.
It will probably be the very first and only time this season we do this, as the previous week of exhibition NFL football is somewhat lackluster in comparison to some regular-season sport of NCAA soccer featuring one of the greatest clubs in the nation, plus a mythical soccer program to boot up, Notre Dame.
Without further ado, lets start the debate after my buddy Doug Upstone got the better of me last week while I backed the Titans. We have been swapping wins on and back so it looks like its my turn for the gold wreath, as the Irish are heartily endorsed by me and will follow the squares laying the lumber onto a public street favorite.
After reviewing the school football odds almost six days ahead of the Monday night event, I see the line has spiked a half-point about the favorite, opening at Notre Dame -19 1/2 to where it is currently offered in a solid -20 round the board at all of the best online sportsbooks.
Doug, I enjoy the Irish but you are leaning onto the Cardinals. Besides the place, why do you think Louisville will hang with the boys?
Doug Upstone: Yes IMO and a successful triumph, said a lot about both the Steelers and Titans direction. Lets move to real soccer, where the matches rely and will our recordings with this one.
Recall Louisville used to play against opponents? They held their own and engineered upsets. These were fun games to see and also the Cardinals were an club.
But just for example the former Papa Johns Stadium as well as its counterfeit (in real life) owner, Louisville soccer last season was worse than the usual three-day-old pizza.
Scott Satterfield are out win matches and to alter the culture and worked wonders at Appalachian State. This wont happen right away as the talent level is down from theVille. Yet , this is a major time for Louisville, a team which has the chance.
I have 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 since the direct running back. Than using a ticket for the Colts at OVER 9 the protection that makes me more worried. Why you have up your Irish, please dont forget.
Swinging Johnson: The Cardinals wont be doing much flying into this game as 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 where they went winless in ACC activity last year. This rebuild is akin to trying to turn it and carrying a hot air balloon.
While this may eventually occur, the issue is that Louisville is facing a team which made it to the CFP this past year and possessed only one of the stingiest defenses in all of college football, devoting only 17.2 points within the normal season and moving a perfect 12-0 until they fulfilled Clemson from the CFP semifinals. The Irish offense clicked on all cylinders also, averaging over 33 points per game.
My question is, just how can be a quarterback like traveling whos slow to discharge, designed to get any traction against a swarming Irish shield? Especially when he is working with a completely new offensive scheme and a coach?
Please, Doug, save me Im lost! I find no way, shape or form where Louisville is going to have the ability to keep up and Im desperate for handicapping experience and the ancestral wisdom!
Doug Upstone: Well, Swinger, Im pleased to see in your last sentence youre coming around to the sunny side of sports betting, or you are just being the exact identical wise a** you usually are. I will let the SBR readers who are currently making this is decided on by school football selections. Im the first to understand Louisville sucked and was not only 2-10, however, 1-11 ATS last season.
Like he gave up about the Atlanta Falcons but that team COMPLETELY gave up on coach Bobby Petrino. A fresh mindset is brought by A coach on making a statement, and this being a federal 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 a lot of fight.
Let us also consider, Brian Kelly with the gold and blue is only 10-13-1 ATS as a road favorite, also a mere 7-9-1 ATS, if dishing out 20 or more digits. This defense you mentioned might improve as the year progresses but replacing five starters, even whenever you dont/can not amuse like Clemson or Bama, it is going to take some time.
Swinging Johnson: Well Doug, I was a bit facetious because though you have an impressive handicapping resume, you miss the mark from time to time. And in this instance, because Louisville might be greater compared to last year but Id submit that they could be coached by a Rhesus monkey and enhance upon their record left by an equally awkward trainer like Petrino, you happen to be shooting blanks.
I know that placing nearly three touchdowns on the street would be square biz for sure and Joe Q. Public never got rich by gambling the heavy street chalk, but sometimes the public is right, and also in this instance they surely are. Until next week when we get back on our NFL Game of the 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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