Notre Dame betting outlook - How much fight will the Irish have?
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The college football season is here, which means Notre Dame fans are already panicking.
Cause all they can think about is losing the national championship game to Ohio State.
Sorry, Notre Dame fans.
All right, Ben, how's Vegas see the fighting Irish?
Fighting Irish, uh, off of that college football playoff title game loss, still a lot of respect from Vegas oddsmakers, one of 4 teams with a win total of 10.5.
The other 3 are in the Big Ten.
Obviously, Notre Dame as an independent.
No odds to win their conference, but 12 to 1 odds to win the national championship at Be Mjam, the eighth best among all teams.
It's hard to ask this question because I'm gonna ask you for key games.
And this is where Notre Dame fans roll their eyes because they know a tradition like no others, Marcus Freeman losing to somebody, they shouldn't lose to.
Every year, but what is the key game that uh Vegas has their eye on for Notre Dame?
Yeah, I mean, the opening game, right?
They, they go to Miami, we always see this in the NFL as well, right?
Early season games in Florida can be that humidity, can be a little tricky.
They're a 2.5 point road favorite right now at Miami in week one.
And then I believe week 3, they got Texas A&M, but it's a little interesting.
They they're gonna be projected to be at least a touchdown favorite against Texas A&M at Arkansas.
Boise State, I believe they're a 16-17 point favorite, and against USC and they close out against Stanford, which has a win total of 3.5, heavily juiced to the under.
So if there, if there's a nice, uh, pillow landing there for the, uh, for the Fighting Irish, that's certainly it.
So this is, you know, those are two really big games, Miami game and a Texas A&M.
But to clear 10.5, they just have to have one loss, right?
So as long as they only lose one game, they'll cash that over.
This is always the trick for Notre Dame.
I mean, new quarterback, obviously high expectations, but as we know, that schedule doesn't necessarily give them the grace to have any screwups along the way.
So it'll be another angst-packed year for Fighting Irish fans everywhere.
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