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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 leave our college football selections on the Monday night game between the Louisville Cardinals and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and that I shall deviate to dip our toes.
It will most likely be the first and only time this season we do this, as the previous week of display NFL football is somewhat lackluster in comparison to a regular-season sport of NCAA football comprising one of the top teams in the nation, plus a mythical football 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 with a wager about the Steelers while the Titans were supported by me. We have been placing wins back and forth so it looks like it is my turn to the gold wreath, as I will accompany the squares laying the lumber that is heavy onto a street favorite and endorse the Irish.
After reviewing the college football odds almost six days before the Monday night event, I see that the line has spiked a half-point on the preferred, opening at Notre Dame -19 1/2 to where it is presently offered at a solid -20 round the board whatsoever the very best internet sportsbooks.
I like the Irish but you are currently leaning within this battle on the Cardinals. Besides the venue is it that you think Louisville will hang with the boys?
Doug Upstone: YesSwinger, at least and a successful triumph IMO, it said a great deal about the Steelers and Titans direction. Let us move ahead to football, will our records with this one and where the games rely.
Recall Louisville utilized to play against opponents? They held their engineered and own upsets. These were enjoyable games to watch and the Cardinals were an exciting golf club.
But for example the former Papa Johns Stadium and its phony (in real life) proprietor, Louisville football last season was worse than a three-day-old pizza.
Scott Satterfield will be out win games and to alter the civilization and worked miracles. This wont happen right away as the ability level is down in theVille. This is a time for Louisville, a group which has the chance.
Ive read in which the Cards trainers have popped up the slow mechanisms of QB Jawon Pass (good name for a QB) and I enjoy Hassan Hall because the direct running back. Than having a ticket for the Colts at OVER 9 for season 23, the defense, well, that makes me more worried. Why you have your Irish up, please dont forget.
Swinging Johnson: The Cardinals wont be doing much flying into this game as the Notre Dame defense will keep them snug in their nest. Scott Satterfield is in the big leagues and he has a team coming off of a dismal album where they went winless this past year. This rebuild is akin to taking a hot air balloon and seeking to turn it.
While this may eventually occur, the problem is that Louisville is confronting a team that made it to the CFP last year and possessed 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 fulfilled Clemson from the CFP semifinals. The offense clicked on all cylinders as well, averaging over 33 points per match.
My issue is, how can be a quarterback like Pass whos slow to release, supposed to gain some traction against a defense? Particularly when hes working with a new coach and an offensive strategy that is entirely new?
Please, Doug, save me I am lost! I find no way, shape or form in which Louisville is going to have the ability to keep up and I am desperate for the ancestral wisdom and handicapping expertise!
Doug Upstone: Well, Swinger, Im glad to see in your last sentence youre coming over to the sunny side of sport betting, or you are just being the exact same shrewd a** you usually are. I will allow the SBR readers who are currently making school football selections decide on that. Im the first to understand Louisville sucked and was not only 2-10, but 1-11 ATS last year.
Just like he gave up on the Atlanta Falcons but coach Bobby Petrino was given up on by that staff COMPLETELY. A coach brings a new attitude and his staff will be sold by Satterfield on making a statement, with this being a federal game. Louisville does have to hope they will not be taken by the Irish and never have much fight.
Lets also think about, Brian Kelly using gold and the blue is ATS as a road favorite, also a ATS, if dishing out 20 or more digits. That defense you said may improve as the year progresses but substituting five starters, when you dont/can not amuse like Bama or Clemson, it is going to take some time.
Swinging Johnson: Well Doug, I was being a bit facetious because although youve got an handicapping that was impressive restart, you miss the mark from time to time. And in this event, you happen to be shooting blanks because Louisville might be greater than last year but I would submit that they are coached with a Rhesus monkey and improve upon their deplorable document rendered by an equally inept trainer such as Petrino.
I know that laying nearly 3 touchdowns on the road would be square biz for sure along with Joe Q. Public never got rich by betting the heavy road chalk, but sometimes the people is correct, and in this situation they 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 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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