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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 detract from our regularly scheduled plan of NFL discussion to dip our toes into uncharted waters and also render our school football selections on the Monday night game between the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and the Louisville Cardinals.
It will most likely be the first and only time this year we do this, as the previous week of exhibition NFL soccer is somewhat lackluster compared to some regular-season sport of NCAA soccer comprising one of the best teams in the country, plus a mythical football program to boot, Notre Dame.
Without further ado, lets begin the debate after my buddy Doug Upstone got the best of me last week with a bet about the Steelers while the Titans were backed by me. We have been placing wins back and on so it appears like it is my turn for the golden wreath, as I will follow the squares laying the lumber that is heavy onto a road favorite and endorse the Irish.
After reviewing the school football odds almost six days before the Monday night event, I see that the line has spiked a half-point on the preferred, starting at Notre Dame -19 1/2 to where its now offered at a solid -20 throughout the board at all of the very best online sportsbooks.
Doug, I love the Irish but youre currently leaning in this clash onto the Cardinals. Besides the venue is it that you believe Louisville can hang with the boys?
Doug Upstone: Yes, Swinger, IMO and at least a convincing win, said a great deal about the Steelers and Titans direction. Let us proceed to real football, will our recordings with this one and in which the matches rely.
Recall Louisville used to perform against big-name competitions? They held their engineered and own upsets. These were fun games to see and also the Cardinals were an exciting golf club.
However, such as 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 are out win games and to change the civilization and worked wonders at Appalachian State. This will not happen immediately as the talent level is down from theVille. However , this is a moment for Louisville, a group that has the chance.
I have read where the Cards coaches have sped up the slow mechanisms of QB Jawon Pass (good name for a QB) and I enjoy Hassan Hall because the direct running back. Than using a ticket for the Colts at OVER 9 for season 23, the shield that makes me more worried. You have up your Irish please do tell.
Swinging Johnson: The Cardinals wont be doing as the Notre Dame defense will keep them cozy in their nest flying in this match. Scott Satterfield is in the big leagues and he has a team coming off of a dismal 2-10 album where they went winless in ACC activity last year. This rebuild is comparable to taking a hot air balloon and attempting to turn it into an F-22 Raptor.
While that may eventually happen, the issue is that Louisville is facing a group that made it into the CFP this past year and owned 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 from the CFP semifinals. The offense was clicking on all cylinders averaging over 33 points per game.
My question is, how can be a quarterback like traveling whos slow to release, supposed to get any traction against a shield that is Irish? Especially when hes working with an offensive strategy that is entirely new and a coach?
Please, Doug, rescue me I am lost! I see no way, shape or form in which Louisville will have the ability to keep pace and I am desperate to your ancestral wisdom and handicapping experience!
Doug Upstone: Well, Swinger, I am glad to see in your last sentence youre coming over to the bright side of sports gambling, or you are simply being the same shrewd a** you are. Ill let the SBR readers who are making this is decided on by college football picks. I am the first to understand Louisville sucked and was, however, 1-11 ATS final season.
But that team COMPLETELY gave up on coach Bobby Petrino, like he gave up around the Atlanta Falcons. A new coach brings a new mindset and his staff will be sold by Satterfield on creating a statement this being a federal match. Louisville does need to hope not and they will not be taken by the Irish for granted have much fight.
Let us also think about, Brian Kelly with gold and the blue is just 10-13-1 ATS as a road favorite, also a ATS when dishing out 20 or more specimens. This defense you mentioned may improve as the season progresses but substituting five starters, if you dont/can not recruit like Bama or Clemson, it will take some time.
I was being a bit facetious because although you have an impressive handicapping resume, then you miss the mark from time to time. And in this circumstance, because Louisville might be better than last year but Id submit that they could be trained with a Rhesus monkey and enhance upon their record left by an coach such as Petrino, you happen to be shooting blanks.
I understand that placing nearly three touchdowns on the road would be square biz for certain and Joe Q. Public never got rich by gambling the heavy street chalk, but sometimes the people is right, and also in this case they certainly are. Until when we get down on our NFL Game of the Week, next week, lets see what happens on Monday 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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