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Published: October 28, 2009
The Washington St Cougars will hit the highway to face the Notre Dame Fighting Irish on a neutral field in a college football game in prime time on Saturday night. Kick off time in the Alamo Dome in San Antonio is set for 7:30PM Eastern Time with national television coverage provided by NBC. The LVSC college football odds makers have set the opening point spread in this game and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish opened as a 31-point favorite. The early money from the college football betting public has come in on the underdog Washington St Cougars, as the Notre Dame Fighting Irish is currently a 27-½ point favorite. The over under is currently lined at 60 for the college football betting public to bet into. College football money line gamblers can make a play on the favored Notre Dame Fighting Irish at –3800 with the road underdog Washington St Cougars bringing back +1850 to pull off the straight up upset victory without the point spread a factor in the money line bet.
Notre Dame is 5-2 this season coming off a 20-16 hard fought victory at home to Boston College. The Fighting Irish benefited from 5 Boston College turnovers. Junior quarterback Jimmy Clausen was 26 of 39 for 246 passing yards and 2 touchdowns in victory last week. Notre Dame struggled to sustain drives last week against a good Boston College Eagles defense as the Irish was just 5 of 15 on third down conversions. Junior running back Anthony Allen had 98 yards rushing last week on 21 carries for a 4.7 yards per carry average. Allen has rushed well on the season for Notre Dame with 4.9 yards per carry average. Notre Dame’s secondary gave up 279 passing yards to Boston College and it’s an area of extreme weakness for Notre Dame. The Irish defense allows it opponents an average 409 yards per game with 282 of those through the air ranking an unbelievable 117th in all of college football. Irish quarterback Jimmy Clausen could score points with Heisman voters because he will be throwing against the 118th ranked passing defense in all of college football in the Washington St Cougars. The Cougars are 1-6 this season and coming off a 49-17 pounding at California last week. The Cougars are a very young team and are led by freshman quarterback Jeff Tuel under center. Tuel has hit on 61% of his passes this season with 4 touchdowns and 3 interceptions. Tuel is coming of his best ever quarterback performance last week at Cal hitting on 28 of 42 for 354 yards two touchdowns and 0 interceptions. This should raise the eyebrows of the Irish who have played to very close games all season. Dwight Tardy is the leading ball carrier for Washington St and he has carried the ball 57 times for just 186 yards and 3.3 yards per carry average. The senior running back has only rushed the ball 5 times the past two games. Freshman running back Carl Winston got 8 carries last week and rushed for 51 yards for 6.4 yards per carry average and it was his best performance of the season. Washington St has a very poor defense giving up 37 points per game
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CFB Trend: Notre Dame Fighting Irish are 1-5 ATS in their past 6 roles as a favorite
The Wagerline consensus has 50.5% of the CFB bettors on Notre Dame –27 1/2
