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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 leave our college football selections on the Monday night match between the Louisville Cardinals and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and then that I shall deviate from our regularly scheduled plan of NFL debate to dip our toes into uncharted waters.
It will almost certainly be the very first and only time this season we do this, as the last week of exhibition NFL soccer is somewhat lackluster in comparison to a regular-season game of NCAA soccer comprising one of the very best teams in the country, plus a legendary soccer program to boot, Notre Dame.
Without further ado, let us start the discussion after my buddy Doug Upstone got the better of me last week with a wager about the Steelers while the Titans were backed by me. We have been placing wins back and forth so it looks like it is my turn to get the gold wreath, as I will follow the squares putting the thick lumber onto a road favorite and endorse the Irish.
After reviewing the school football odds almost six days prior to this Monday night event, I see the lineup has spiked a half-point on the preferred, opening at Notre Dame -19 1/2 to where it is currently offered at a solid -20 throughout the board whatsoever of the very best online sportsbooks.
You are currently leaning to the Cardinals within this season-opening battle although I like the Irish. Apart from the place is it that you believe Louisville can hang with the boys?
Doug Upstone: Yup a successful win and at least IMO, it said a lot about the direction of the Steelers and Titans. Let us move to real soccer, so will our records with this one and in which the matches rely.
Remember those Thursday night matches Louisville used to perform against big-name opponents? They held their engineered and own several upsets. These were fun games and also the Cardinals were a thrilling club.
But like the former Papa Johns Stadium and its fake (in real life) owner, Louisville soccer last year was worse than the usual three-day-old pizza.
Scott Satterfield worked miracles and are out to change the culture and win games. This will not happen right away as the ability level is down in theVille. Yet , this is a time for Louisville, a team that has the opportunity.
I have read in which the Cards trainers have popped up the slow mechanisms of QB Jawon Pass (great name for a QB) and I like Hassan Hall because the lead running back. Than having a ticket for the Colts at OVER 9 the protection that 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 in the big leagues and he has a group this past year, where they went winless coming off of a dismal 2-10 record. This rebuild is comparable to trying to turn it into an F-22 Raptor and carrying a hot air balloon.
While that could eventually occur, the problem is that Louisville is facing a group which made it into the CFP this past year and owned one of the stingiest defenses in all of college football, devoting only 17.2 points over the normal season and moving a perfect 12-0 till they met Clemson in the CFP semifinals. The Irish offense was clicking on all cylinders averaging over 33 points per game.
My question is, how is a quarterback like Pass whos slow to discharge, designed to gain some traction against a Irish defense? Particularly when hes working with a completely new offensive strategy and a brand new coach?
Please, Doug, rescue me I am lost! I find no way, shape or form in which Louisville is going to be able to keep pace and I am desperate for your ancestral wisdom and handicapping expertise!
Doug Upstone: Well, Swinger, Im pleased to see in your last sentence you are coming on to the glowing side of sports betting, or you are simply being the same shrewd a** you usually are. Ill allow the SBR readers that are currently making school football picks decide on that. I am the first to understand Louisville completely sucked and was 1-11 ATS, although not only 2-10 final season.
Just like he gave up about the Atlanta Falcons However, coach Bobby Petrino was given up on by that team COMPLETELY. A trainer brings a new attitude and his staff will be sold by Satterfield on making a statement, with this being a federal match. Louisville does need to hope the Irish will take them and never have a lot of fight.
Lets also think about, Brian Kelly with all the gold and blue is ATS as a road favorite, also when dishing out 20 or more digits, a ATS. That defense you mentioned might improve as the season progresses but substituting five starters, even when you dont/can not recruit like Clemson or Bama, it is going to take time.
Swinging Johnson: Well Doug, I was being a bit facetious because though youve got an impressive handicapping restart, you miss the mark from time to time. And in this circumstance, because Louisville might be greater but I would submit that they are trained by a Rhesus monkey and enhance upon their deplorable document rendered by an trainer like Petrino you happen to be shooting blanks.
I know that laying nearly three touchdowns on the street is square biz for sure along with Joe Q. Public never got rich by gambling the heavy street chalk, but on occasion the public is right, and in this case they are. Until when we get down on our NFL Game of the Week, next week, let us 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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