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

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 feet into uncharted waters and then also leave our school football selections on the Monday night match between the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and the Louisville Cardinals.
It will almost certainly be the first and only time this season we do so, as the previous week of display NFL football is somewhat lackluster in comparison to some regular-season sport of NCAA football featuring one of the greatest clubs in the country, plus a mythical football program to boot, Notre Dame.
Without further ado, lets start the debate after my friend Doug Upstone got the better of me last week with a bet on the Steelers while I supported the Titans. We have been placing wins back and on so it looks like it is my turn for the wreath, as I endorse the Irish and will accompany the squares laying the lumber that is heavy on a public road favorite.
After reviewing the school football odds almost six days ahead of the Monday night affair, I see that the line has spiked a half-point on the preferred, starting at Notre Dame -19 1/2 to where its presently offered in a solid -20 across the board whatsoever of the very best online sportsbooks.
Doug, I enjoy the Irish but youre leaning in this season-opening clash to the Cardinals. Other than the venue is it that you believe Louisville could hang with the boys out of South Bend?
Doug Upstone: Yup, Swinger, a triumph and at least IMO, it said a lot about the Steelers and Titans management. Let us move to soccer, will our recordings on this one and in which the games count.
Recall Louisville utilized to play against competitions that are big-name? They held their engineered and own upsets. These were fun games and the Cardinals were an exciting golf club.
However, such as 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 wonders and are out win matches and to change the civilization. This wont happen immediately as the ability level is down in theVille. This is a time for Louisville, a team which has the opportunity.
Ive read where the Cards coaches have popped up the slow mechanisms of QB Jawon Pass (great name for a QB) and that I like Hassan Hall as the lead running back. The defense, which makes me more worried than having a ticket for the Colts at OVER 9 for season wins. Please do tell youve got your Irish up.
Swinging Johnson: The Cardinals will not be doing much as the Notre Dame defense will keep them cozy inside their nest flying in this game. Scott Satterfield is in the big leagues and he has a team coming off of a dismal album last year, where they went winless. This rebuild is akin to seeking to turn it in an F-22 Raptor and carrying a hot air balloon.
While this may eventually occur, the issue is that Louisville is facing a team which made it to the CFP this past year and owned only one of the stingiest defenses in all of college football, devoting only 17.2 points over the regular season and going a perfect 12-0 till they fulfilled Clemson in the CFP semifinals. The offense clicked on all cylinders averaging 33 points per game over.
So, my query is, how is a quarterback like Pass who is slow to discharge, supposed to obtain any traction against a Irish defense? Particularly when he is working with a trainer and an entirely new offensive strategy?
Please, Doug, rescue me I am lost! I find no way, shape or form in which Louisville will be able to keep pace and I am desperate to handicapping experience that is prodigious and the sage wisdom!
Doug Upstone: Well, Swinger, Im happy to read in your last sentence you are coming around to the glowing side of sports betting, or you are just being the exact shrewd a** you usually are. I will let the SBR readers who are making this is decided on by college football selections. Im the first to realize Louisville sucked and was 1-11 ATS, although not just 2-10 last season.
But that staff COMPLETELY gave up on coach Bobby Petrino, just like he gave up on the Atlanta Falcons. A new attitude is brought by A trainer on making a statement and with this being a match, his team will be sold by Satterfield. Louisville does have to hope not and the Irish will take them for granted have much fight.
Let us also think about, Brian Kelly using the blue and gold is just 10-13-1 ATS as a road favorite, also a mere 7-9-1 ATS, if dishing out more or 20 digits. That defense you said may improve as the season progresses but substituting five starters, whenever you dont/cant amuse like Bama or Clemson, it will take time.
I was being a bit facetious because though youve got an handicapping restart, then you miss the mark from time to time. And in this instance, because Louisville could be greater compared to last year but Id submit that they could be coached by a Rhesus monkey and enhance upon their deplorable record rendered by an equally awkward coach such as Petrino, you happen to be shooting blanks.
I understand that placing nearly 3 touchdowns on the road is square biz for certain along with Joe Q. Public never got rich by gambling the heavy street chalk, but at times the general public is right, and also 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 night once the Irish come ready to rumble in Louisville.
Free College Football Pick: Swinging Johnson — Notre Dame -20 (-110)
Free College Football Pick: Doug Upstone — Louisville +20 (-110)