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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 shall detract from our regularly scheduled program of NFL debate to dip our toes into uncharted waters and render our college football selections on the Monday night game between the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and the Louisville Cardinals.
It will probably be the first and only time this year we do this, as the last week of display NFL football is somewhat lackluster compared to some regular-season sport of NCAA football featuring one of the best teams in the nation, plus a legendary football program to boot up, Notre Dame.
Without further ado, lets begin the discussion after my buddy Doug Upstone got the better of me last week while the Titans were backed by me. Weve been placing wins back and on so it looks like it is my turn to the gold wreath, as the Irish are heartily endorsed by me and will accompany the squares laying the lumber on a road favorite.
After reviewing the school football odds nearly six days ahead of the Monday night affair, I see the lineup has spiked a half-point about the favorite, opening at Notre Dame -19 1/2 to where it is now available at a strong -20 across the board whatsoever the best online sportsbooks.
Doug, I like the Irish but you are currently leaning onto the Cardinals. Besides the place is it that you believe Louisville will hang with the boys?
Doug Upstone: Yes, Swinger, a win and IMO, it said a lot about the Steelers and Titans management. Let us move to soccer, will our records on this one and where the games count.
Remember those Thursday night games Louisville utilized to play against big-name opponents? They held their own and engineered upsets. These were enjoyable games to watch and also the Cardinals were an golf club.
However, like the former Papa Johns Stadium and its phony (in real life) owner, Louisville football last season was worse than the usual three-day-old pizza.
Scott Satterfield worked wonders and are out to alter the civilization and win matches. This will not happen right away because the talent level is down in theVille. This is a moment for Louisville, a group that has the opportunity to begin taking actions.
I have read where the Cards trainers have sped up the slow mechanics of QB Jawon Pass (good name for a QB) and that I like Hassan Hall since the direct running back. The defense, well, that makes me more worried than having a ticket for the Colts at OVER 9. You have up your Irish please do tell.
Swinging Johnson: The Cardinals will not be doing since 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 this past year, where they went winless in ACC activity coming from a dismal 2-10 record. This rebuild is comparable to taking a hot air balloon and trying to turn it into an F-22 Raptor.
While that may eventually happen, the issue is that Louisville is confronting a team which made it to the CFP this past year and possessed 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 till they met Clemson in the CFP semifinals. The offense clicked on all cylinders averaging 33 points per match over.
My issue is, how will be a quarterback like traveling whos slow to discharge, supposed to get any traction against a swarming defense that is Irish? Particularly when he is working with an offensive scheme and a new trainer?
Please, Doug, save me Im lost! I find no way, shape or form where Louisville will have the ability to keep pace and Im desperate to the sage wisdom and handicapping experience that is prodigious!
Doug Upstone: Well, Swinger, I am glad to see in your last sentence youre coming over to the sunny side of sports betting, or you are simply being the identical shrewd a** you are. Ill let the SBR readers who are making that is decided on by college football picks. I am the first to understand Louisville fully pumped and wasnt just 2-10, however, 1-11 ATS final season.
Like he gave up on the Atlanta Falcons but coach Bobby Petrino was given up on by that staff COMPLETELY. A trainer brings a new mindset on building a statement, and with this being a match, his staff will be sold by Satterfield. Louisville does have to trust never and they will not be taken by the Irish for granted have much fight.
Let us also consider, Brian Kelly using gold and the blue is ATS as a road favorite, and a ATS when dishing out 20 or more digits. That defense you said might improve as the year progresses but substituting five starters, if you dont/cant recruit like Bama or even Clemson, it will take time.
I was being a bit facetious because although youve got an handicapping resume, then you miss the mark from time to time. And in this circumstance, because Louisville might be better but Id submit that they could be trained with a Rhesus monkey and enhance upon their deplorable record rendered by an incompetent trainer like Petrino you happen to be shooting blanks.
I understand that laying nearly 3 touchdowns on the street would be square biz for sure along with Joe Q. Public never got rich by betting the heavy road chalk, but sometimes the public is right, and in this instance they are. Until once we get down on our NFL Game of the Week, next week, let us see what happens on Monday night when 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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