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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 match between the Louisville Cardinals and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and then that I shall deviate from our regularly scheduled plan of NFL discussion to dip our feet.
It will probably be the very first and only time this year we do this, as the last week of exhibition NFL soccer is somewhat lackluster in comparison to some regular-season sport of NCAA soccer comprising one of the top clubs in the nation, and a mythical football program to boot, Notre Dame.
Without further ado, let us start the debate after my friend Doug Upstone got the best of me last week while I supported the Titans. Weve been swapping wins back and on so it appears like it is my turn for the wreath, as I will follow the squares laying the lumber that is heavy on a public road favorite and endorse the Irish.
After reviewing the school football odds almost six days ahead of the Monday night affair, I see that the lineup has spiked a half-point about the preferred, starting at Notre Dame -19 1/2 to where it is now offered in a solid -20 round the board at all of the best internet sportsbooks.
I love the Irish but you are currently leaning in this season-opening battle on the Cardinals. Apart from the place, why is it that you think Louisville can hang with the boys?
Doug Upstone: Yes, Swinger, and a triumph IMO, it said a lot about the Steelers and Titans direction. Lets move to football, will our recordings with this one and where the matches count.
Remember Louisville utilized to play against opponents that are big-name? They held their engineered and own several upsets. These were fun games to watch and the Cardinals were an golf club.
But just for example the former Papa Johns Stadium and its fake (in real life) proprietor, Louisville football last year was worse than a three-day-old pizza.
Scott Satterfield worked miracles at Appalachian State and will be out win matches and to alter the culture. This will not happen right away as the talent level is down in theVille. This is a moment for Louisville, a team that has the opportunity to begin taking actions.
Ive read in which the Cards trainers have sped up on the slow mechanisms of QB Jawon Pass (great title for a QB) and I enjoy Hassan Hall because the direct running back. Than having a ticket for the Colts at OVER 9 the shield, well, which makes me more nervous. Why you have your Irish up please do tell.
Swinging Johnson: The Cardinals wont be doing much as the Notre Dame defense will keep them comfortable in their nest, flying in this game. Scott Satterfield is in the big leagues and hes got a group this past year, where they went winless in ACC action coming from a dismal album. This rebuild is akin to attempting to turn it in an F-22 Raptor and taking a hot air balloon.
While this may eventually occur, the issue is that Louisville is facing a team which made it into the CFP last year and owned only one of the stingiest defenses in all of college football, devoting only 17.2 points over the regular season and moving a perfect 12-0 until they met Clemson in the CFP semifinals. The offense was clicking on all cylinders also, averaging over 33 points per match.
My issue is, just how can be a quarterback like Pass whos slow to release, designed to get some traction against a swarming defense? Particularly when he is working with a new trainer and a completely new offensive scheme?
Please, Doug, rescue me Im lost! I find no way, shape or form in which Louisville is going to have the ability to keep up and Im desperate to your sage wisdom and handicapping expertise that is prodigious!
Doug Upstone: Well, Swinger, Im pleased to read in your last sentence youre coming on to the glowing side of sport betting, or youre simply being the exact wise a** you usually are. I will let the SBR readers who are making this is decided on by school football picks. I am the first to realize Louisville sucked and was not only 2-10, but 1-11 ATS last season.
But that staff COMPLETELY gave up on coach Bobby Petrino, just like he gave up on the Atlanta Falcons. A new attitude is brought by A new trainer on making a statement, and with this being a match, his staff will be sold by Satterfield. Louisville does need to trust they will not be taken by the Irish for granted and not have much fight.
Lets also consider, Brian Kelly using all the gold and blue is only 10-13-1 ATS as a road favorite, also a mere 7-9-1 ATS when dishing out 20 or more specimens. This defense you said might improve as the year progresses but substituting five starters, whenever you dont/cant recruit like Clemson or Bama, it will take time.
Swinging Johnson: Well Doug, I was a bit facetious because although youve got an impressive handicapping resume, you miss the mark from time to time. And in this situation, because Louisville might be better but I would submit that they are trained with a Rhesus monkey and enhance upon their deplorable document rendered by an awkward trainer like Petrino, you happen to be shooting blanks.
I understand that placing nearly 3 touchdowns on the road is square biz for certain and Joe Q. Public never got rich by gambling the heavy road chalk, but on occasion the people is right, and also in this instance they surely 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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