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

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 picks on the Monday night game between the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and the Louisville Cardinals and that I shall deviate from our regularly scheduled plan of NFL discussion to dip our toes into uncharted waters.
It will almost certainly be the first and only time this season we do this, as the last week of display NFL football is somewhat lackluster compared to a regular-season sport of NCAA soccer comprising one of the best teams in the country, 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 while I backed the Titans. We have been placing wins back and on so it looks like its my turn to get the wreath, as I endorse the Irish and will follow the squares putting the thick lumber onto a street favorite.
After reviewing the school football odds nearly six days ahead of this Monday night event, I see that the line has spiked a half-point about the preferred, starting at Notre Dame -19 1/2 to where it is presently offered in a solid -20 across the board at all of the best online sportsbooks.
You are currently leaning onto the Cardinals in this clash although doug, I like the Irish. Apart from the place do you think Louisville could hang with the boys?
Doug Upstone: Yes a successful win and IMO, it said a great deal about the Steelers and Titans direction. Let us proceed to soccer, so will our records with this one and where the matches rely.
Recall those Thursday night games Louisville used to play against competitions that are big-name? They held their own and engineered many upsets. These were enjoyable games to see and the Cardinals were a thrilling golf club.
But just for example the former Papa Johns Stadium and its counterfeit (in real life) owner, Louisville football last year was worse than a three-day-old pizza.
Scott Satterfield will be out win matches and to alter the culture and worked miracles in Appalachian State. This wont happen immediately as the talent level is down from theVille. This is a time for Louisville, a group that has the chance to begin taking steps.
I have read where the Cards coaches have sped up the slow mechanisms of QB Jawon Pass (great name for a QB) and that I like Hassan Hall since the direct running back. Than using a ticket for the Colts at OVER 9 for season 23, the defense which makes me more nervous. Please do tell why you have up your Irish.
Swinging Johnson: The Cardinals will not be doing as the Notre Dame defense will keep them snug in their nest flying into this game. Scott Satterfield is currently in the big leagues and he has a group coming off of a dismal 2-10 album this past year, in which they went winless in ACC action. This rebuild is comparable to taking a hot air balloon and attempting to turn it in an F-22 Raptor.
While that may eventually occur, the issue is that Louisville is confronting a group which made it to the CFP last 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 in the CFP semifinals. The Irish offense clicked on all cylinders also, averaging 33 points per match over.
My query is, how is a quarterback like traveling who is slow to release, supposed to get any traction against a swarming defense that is Irish? Particularly when hes working with an offensive scheme and a new coach?
Please, Doug, rescue me Im lost! I see no way, shape or form in which Louisville is going to have the ability to keep pace with this Golden Domers and I am desperate to handicapping experience that is prodigious and the ancestral wisdom!
Doug Upstone: Well, Swinger, Im happy to see in your last sentence you are coming around to the bright side of sport gambling, or youre just being the same shrewd a** you usually are. I will let the SBR readers who are currently making college football selections decide on this. Im the first to understand Louisville completely sucked and was 1-11 ATS, although not just 2-10 last year.
Like he gave up around the Atlanta Falcons but that staff COMPLETELY gave up on coach Bobby Petrino. A new trainer brings a new attitude on creating a statement and this being a game, his team will be sold by Satterfield. Louisville does need to hope they will not be taken by the Irish and never have a lot of fight.
Let us also think about, Brian Kelly using gold and the blue is just 10-13-1 ATS as a road favorite, also a ATS when dishing out 20 or more digits. This defense you mentioned may improve as the year progresses but substituting five starters, if you dont/can not amuse like Bama or Clemson, it will take some time.
I was a bit facetious because although you have an handicapping resume, you miss the mark from time to time. And in this instance, because Louisville could be better than last year but I would submit that they are trained by a Rhesus monkey and enhance upon their deplorable record rendered by an equally awkward trainer such as Petrino, you happen to be shooting blanks.
I know that placing nearly 3 touchdowns on the road would be square biz for certain and Joe Q. Public never got rich by gambling the heavy road chalk, but on occasion the general public is correct, and also in this case they definitely are. Until once we get back on our NFL Game of the Week, next week, let us see what happens on Monday once 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)