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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 also that I will deviate to dip our feet into uncharted waters.
It will almost certainly be the first and only time this year we do so, as the previous week of exhibition NFL football is somewhat lackluster compared to a regular-season sport of NCAA soccer featuring one of the best clubs in the nation, plus a legendary football program to boot up, Notre Dame.
Without further ado, let us start the discussion after my buddy Doug Upstone got the better of me last week with a bet on the Steelers while I endorsed the Titans. We have been placing wins back and forth so it appears like its my turn to get the gold wreath, as I endorse the Irish and will accompany the squares laying the lumber on a street favorite.
After reviewing the school football odds almost six days before this Monday night event, I see the line has spiked a half-point about the favorite, starting at Notre Dame -19 1/2 to where it is presently offered at a solid -20 throughout the board at all the best internet sportsbooks.
I love the Irish but you are currently leaning on the Cardinals. Besides the venue do you think Louisville will hang with the boys?
Doug Upstone: Yup Swinger, and a triumph IMO, it said a lot about the management of the Steelers and Titans. Let us move to football, where the games count and so will our recordings on this one.
Recall Louisville utilized to play against big-name opponents? They held their engineered and own several upsets. These were enjoyable games and also the Cardinals were a thrilling club.
But like the former Papa Johns Stadium and its fake (in real life) proprietor, Louisville soccer last season was worse than a three-day-old pizza.
Scott Satterfield will be out win matches and to alter the culture and worked miracles. This will not happen immediately as the talent level is down in theVille. This is a huge time for Louisville, a group which has the opportunity.
Ive read in which the Cards trainers have sped up the slow mechanics of QB Jawon Pass (great name for a QB) and that I enjoy Hassan Hall as the direct running back. Than using a ticket for the Colts at OVER 9 for season 23, the shield, well, which makes me more worried. Why you have up your Irish please dont forget.
Swinging Johnson: The Cardinals will not be doing flying in this game as the Notre Dame defense will keep them comfortable in their nest. Scott Satterfield is currently in the big leagues and he has a team coming from a dismal 2-10 record last year where they went winless in ACC action. This rebuild is akin to attempting to turn it and taking a hot air balloon.
While that may eventually happen, the issue is that Louisville is confronting a group which made it into the CFP this past year and owned only one of the stingiest defenses in all of college football, surrendering just 17.2 points over the regular season and moving a perfect 12-0 till they fulfilled Clemson from the CFP semifinals. The offense clicked on all cylinders averaging over 33 points per game.
My issue is, how will be a quarterback like Pass whos slow to release, supposed to gain any traction against a swarming Irish defense? Particularly when he is working with an offensive strategy that is entirely new and a coach?
Please, Doug, save me Im lost! I find no way, shape or form in which Louisville is going to have the ability to keep pace with the Golden Domers and I am desperate to the brand new wisdom and handicapping expertise that is prodigious!
Doug Upstone: Well, Swinger, Im happy to read in your last sentence you are coming around to the sunny side of sports betting, or youre simply being the exact identical shrewd a** you are. Ill let the SBR readers that are making that is decided on by school football selections. Im the first to realize Louisville fully pumped and was not only 2-10, but 1-11 ATS last season.
But that team COMPLETELY gave up on coach Bobby Petrino, just like he gave up around the Atlanta Falcons. A new trainer brings a new mindset on making a statement, and this being a federal match, his team will be sold by Satterfield. Louisville does have to trust they will not be taken by the Irish for granted and not have much fight.
Lets also think about, Brian Kelly with gold and all the blue is simply 10-13-1 ATS as a road favorite, and when dishing out 20 or more digits, a ATS. That defense you said may improve as the year progresses but replacing five starters, if you dont/cant recruit like Clemson or even Bama, it is going to take time.
I was a bit facetious because although youve got an handicapping restart, you miss the mark from time to time. And in this circumstance, because Louisville could be greater compared to last year but Id submit that they could be coached by a Rhesus monkey and improve upon their document rendered by an inept coach such as Petrino, you happen to be shooting blanks.
I understand that laying nearly 3 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 public is right, and also in this instance they definitely are. Until next week once we get down on our NFL Game of the Week, let us see what happens on Monday night when the Irish come prepared 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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