Point/Counterpoint: Notre Dame vs Louisville – Free NCAAF Betting Picks

Posted November 21, 2019

Notre Dame (9) vs Louisville
Monday, September 2 nd, 8:00 PM in Cardinal Stadium
Swinging Johnson: This week Doug Upstone and leave our school football selections on the Monday night match between the Louisville Cardinals and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and then I shall deviate from our regularly scheduled plan of NFL discussion to dip our toes.
It will probably be the very first and only time this year we do this, as the previous week of exhibition NFL soccer is somewhat lackluster in comparison to a regular-season sport of NCAA soccer featuring one of the very best teams 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 better of me last week with a wager about the Steelers while I supported the Titans. We have been swapping wins back and forth so it appears like its 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 college football odds almost six days prior to this Monday night affair, I see that the line has spiked a half-point on the favorite, opening at Notre Dame -19 1/2 to where its presently offered at a solid -20 throughout the board at all the best online sportsbooks.
Youre currently leaning to the Cardinals although I enjoy the Irish. Apart from the place is it that you believe Louisville can hang with the boys?
Doug Upstone: YesSwinger, and a win IMO, said a great deal about both the Steelers and Titans management. Lets move ahead to football, so will our records on this one and in which the games rely.
Remember those Thursday night games Louisville utilized to play against competitions? They held their own and engineered upsets. These were fun games to watch and also the Cardinals were an golf club.
However, like the former Papa Johns Stadium and its fake (in real life) proprietor, Louisville football last season was worse than a three-day-old pizza.
Scott Satterfield are out win games and to change the culture and worked wonders. This wont happen right away as the ability level is down in theVille. This is a moment for Louisville, a team which has the opportunity to begin taking steps in the right direction.
I have read where the Cards trainers have sped up the slow mechanisms of QB Jawon Pass (great title for a QB) and that I enjoy Hassan Hall because the lead running back. The defense, well, which makes me more worried than having a ticket for the Colts at OVER 9. You have your Irish up, please dont forget.
Swinging Johnson: The Cardinals wont be doing much flying into this match since the Notre Dame defense will keep them snug in their nest. Scott Satterfield is in the big leagues and he has a team this past year, where they went winless coming from a dismal 2-10 album. This rebuild is akin to seeking to turn it into an F-22 Raptor and taking a hot air balloon.
While that may eventually happen, the issue is that Louisville is facing a team that made it into the CFP this past year and owned one of the stingiest defenses in all of college football, surrendering just 17.2 points within the normal season and moving a perfect 12-0 until they fulfilled Clemson from the CFP semifinals. The Irish offense was clicking on all cylinders averaging 33 points per game over.
My question is, how is a quarterback like traveling whos slow to release, supposed to gain any traction against a shield that is Irish? Particularly when he is working with an offensive strategy and a trainer?
Please, Doug, rescue me I am lost! I see no way, shape or form in which Louisville will be able to keep pace with the Golden Domers and Im desperate to the ancestral wisdom and handicapping experience!
Doug Upstone: Well, Swinger, Im pleased to see in your last sentence youre coming over to the glowing side of sports gambling, or youre just being the identical shrewd a** you are. I will let the SBR readers that are currently making this is decided on by school football selections. Im the first to understand Louisville was not just 2-10, but 1-11 ATS and completely sucked last year.
But that team COMPLETELY gave up on coach Bobby Petrino, like he gave up about the Atlanta Falcons. A trainer brings a new attitude and his team will be sold by Satterfield on building a statement this being a national match. Louisville does have to trust never and the Irish will take them for granted have much fight.
Let us also consider, Brian Kelly with gold and all the blue is only 10-13-1 ATS as a road favorite, also a mere 7-9-1 ATS when decked out 20 or more specimens. This defense you mentioned may improve as the year progresses but substituting five starters, even when you dont/cant recruit like Clemson or even Bama, it will take time.
Swinging Johnson: Well Doug, I was being a bit facetious because although youve got an impressive handicapping restart, you miss the mark from time to time. And in this event, because Louisville might be better than last year but I would submit that they could be coached with a Rhesus monkey and improve upon their deplorable document rendered by an trainer such as Petrino you happen to be shooting blanks.
I understand that laying nearly three touchdowns on the street is square biz for certain along with Joe Q. Public never got rich by betting the heavy road chalk, but sometimes the public is correct, and in this situation they surely are. Until next week once we get back on our NFL Game of the Week, lets see what happens on Monday night when 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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