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

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Notre Dame (9) vs Louisville
Monday, September 2 nd, 8:00 PM at Cardinal Stadium
Swinging Johnson: This week Doug Upstone and I will detract to dip our toes into uncharted waters and leave our college football picks on the Monday night match between the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and the Louisville Cardinals.
It will probably be the very first and only time this season we do this, as the last week of exhibition NFL football is somewhat lackluster in comparison to a regular-season sport of NCAA football comprising one of the greatest teams in the nation, plus a mythical football program to boot up, Notre Dame.
Without further ado, lets start the debate after my friend Doug Upstone got the best of me last week with a wager about the Steelers while I backed the Titans. We have been swapping wins forth and back so it looks like its my turn to get the wreath, as I heartily endorse the Irish and will accompany all the squares laying the lumber onto a road favorite.
After reviewing the college football odds almost six days before the Monday night affair, I see 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 the very best internet sportsbooks.
Doug, I like the Irish but you are leaning in this season-opening clash on the Cardinals. Aside from the venue do you believe Louisville will hang with the boys?
Doug Upstone: Yes IMO and a successful triumph, said a great deal about the management of the Steelers and Titans. Let us move ahead to soccer, so will our records with this one and in which the matches count.
Recall those Thursday night games Louisville used to perform against big-name opponents? They held their own and engineered upsets. These were enjoyable games to see and also the Cardinals were an exciting club.
However, for example the former Papa Johns Stadium as well as its counterfeit (in real life) owner, Louisville soccer last season was worse than the usual three-day-old pizza.
Scott Satterfield worked miracles and are out win matches and to alter the culture. This wont happen right away as the ability level is down from theVille. However this is a significant time for Louisville, a team which has the chance.
Ive read in which the Cards coaches have popped up the slow mechanisms of QB Jawon Pass (good name for a QB) and I like Hassan Hall since the direct running back. Than using a ticket for the Colts at OVER 9 for season wins the protection that makes me more worried. Please do tell why youve got your Irish up.
Swinging Johnson: The Cardinals wont be doing much as the Notre Dame defense will keep them comfortable in their nest flying into this match. Scott Satterfield is in the big leagues and he has a team coming from a dismal 2-10 album last year where they went winless in ACC activity. This rebuild is comparable 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 this past year and possessed one of the stingiest defenses in all of college football, surrendering just 17.2 points within the regular season and going a perfect 12-0 until they met Clemson from the CFP semifinals. The offense was clicking on all cylinders averaging 33 points per match over.
My question is, just how is a quarterback like traveling whos slow to discharge, supposed to get any traction against a swarming defense? Especially when he is working with a new coach and an offensive strategy?
Please, Doug, rescue me Im lost! I find no way, shape or form in which Louisville will have the ability to keep pace and I am desperate to handicapping expertise and your ancestral wisdom!
Doug Upstone: Well, Swinger, I am glad to read in your last sentence youre coming around to the sunny side of sports gambling, or youre simply being the same wise a** you are. I will let the SBR readers that are making this is decided on by college football picks. I am the first to realize Louisville fully pumped and was 1-11 ATS, although not only 2-10 last season.
However, that team COMPLETELY gave up on coach Bobby Petrino, like he gave up around the Atlanta Falcons. A new mindset is brought by A new coach and his team will be sold by Satterfield on making a statement, with this being a game. Louisville does need to hope they will not be taken by the Irish for granted and never have much fight.
Let us also consider, Brian Kelly using gold and all the blue is ATS as a road favorite, and a ATS, when dishing out 20 or more specimens. This defense you said may improve as the season progresses but substituting five starters, even whenever you dont/can not amuse like Clemson or even Bama, it will take time.
I was becoming a bit facetious because although youve got an handicapping that was impressive resume, you miss the mark from time to time. And in this scenario, because Louisville might be greater but Id submit that they could be trained with a Rhesus monkey and improve upon their deplorable document rendered by an coach like Petrino, you happen to be shooting blanks.
I understand that laying nearly three touchdowns on the road would be square biz for certain and Joe Q. Public never got rich by betting the heavy road chalk, but at times the people is right, and in this instance they are. Until when we get down on our NFL Game of the Week next week, let us see what happens on Monday 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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