Two storied programs square off in the 2011 Champs Sports Bowl as the Florida State Seminoles take on the Notre Dame Fight Irish. These are two teams that failed to meet expectations this season, though many would say that they are still two of the best in the country. Notre Dame’s quarterback situation is up in the air, and whoever is under center could struggle against the nation’s No. 4 scoring defense. FSU will be making their third appearance in the Champs Sports Bowl. Kickoff is set for...
Read more about 2011 Champs Sports Bowl Odds Notre Dame at Stanford Spread - November 21, 2011The fourth-ranked Stanford Cardinal host the No. 23 Notre Dame Fighting Irish Saturday in Week 13 college football action. After losing seven straight in this rivalry from 2002 to ‘08, the Cardinal have reeled off back-to-back wins over the Irish. That includes a 37-14 road victory last season as a 4-point favorite. Andrew Luck threw for 238 yards and a touchdown, and Stepfan Taylor ran for 108 yards to lead Stanford to victory. According to the latest college football odds, Stanford is a 6.5-point...
Read more about Notre Dame at Stanford Spread Boston College at Notre Dame Line - November 17, 2011The Notre Dame Fighting Irish will look to add to their late season surge when they host the Boston College Eagles this Saturday. The Irish won their third consecutive game by defeating Maryland 45-21 at home, and have now won seven of their last eight after starting the season 0-2. The Eagles are just 3-7 on the year, but were able to hold on for a 14-10 win at home against North Carolina State this past weekend. It was their second win in three games after they opened up just 1-6. Notre Dame has...
Read more about Boston College at Notre Dame Line 2011 Notre Dame Basketball Predictions - November 8, 20112010-11 Results: Overall: 27-7(Home 17-0 Road 5-4 Neutral 5-3 Post Season 2-2) Big East: 14-4 Conference Tournament: Lost in the semifinals of the Big East tournament. Postseason: Lost in the third round of the NCAA tournament. Mike Brey guided Notre Dame to a surprising second place finish in the Big East last year and another NCAA Tournament berth. Once again he continued to show that he is one of the top coaches in the Big East and will look to prove it again this year. Notre Dame got off to...
Read more about 2011 Notre Dame Basketball Predictions Navy at Notre Dame Line - October 26, 2011This Saturday the Notre Dame Fighting Irish will host the Navy Midshipmen in the 87th meeting between these two Independent programs. The Fighting Irish fell 31-17 at home to USC last week, a game in which they were favored by 8.5-points. The loss moved Notre Dame to 4-3 overall, ruining any hopes of playing in a BCS bowl game. The Midshipmen lost 35-38 at home against East Carolina, giving them five straight losses since opening the season 2-0. Notre Dame won 35-17 over Navy last season, but the...
Read more about Navy at Notre Dame Line USC at Notre Dame Line - October 18, 2011The Notre Dame Fighting Irish will go for their fifth straight win this Saturday when they host the USC Trojans. The Fighting Irish opened the year with back-to-back losses against South Florida and Michigan, but have responded with four straight wins, including a 31-13 win over then No. 15 Michigan State. The Trojans come in off an impressive 30-9 win at Cal last Thursday. USC is 5-1 overall, but did get blown out 43-22 at Arizona State back on September 24. Notre Dame had lost eight straight to...
Read more about USC at Notre Dame Line Notre Dame at Pittsburgh Line - September 20, 2011The Notre Dame Fighting Irish are set to go on the road to take on the Pittsburgh Panthers in week 4 of college football action. This will be the fourth straight season the two teams have squared off. Pittsburgh has won two of the last three, but the Irish were able to hold on for a 23-17 win at home last season. Notre Dame avoided and 0-3 start to the season with a 31-13 win over then No. 15 Michigan State. The Panthers looked like they were on their way to a 3-0 start with a 27-10 lead with just...
Read more about Notre Dame at Pittsburgh Line Michigan State at Notre Dame Odds - September 12, 2011The Notre Dame Fighting Irish could not have gotten off to a worse start to the 2011 season. They came into the year with high expectations, but have basically given away two games to drop to 0-2. Now they must face a Michigan State Spartans team that is ranked No. 15 in the country and off to an impressive 2-0 start. How will the Irish respond at home Saturday? According to the Week 3 college football lines, odds makers have installed Notre Dame as a 5-point home favorite for this match-up. Notre...
Read more about Michigan State at Notre Dame Odds Notre Dame at Michigan Line - September 6, 2011The Michigan versus Notre Dame rivalry continues this weekend as the Fighting Irish visit the Big House. Notre Dame is coming off a stunning 23-20 loss to South Florida as a double-digit favorite, while Michigan won a weather-shortened showdown with Western Michigan by a final of 34-10. The Wolverines have had the edge in this series recently, winning four of the last five meetings. Taking a look at the college football odds, I find Notre Dame as 3.5-point road favorites over Michigan and a total...
Read more about Notre Dame at Michigan Line 2011 College Football Predictions - July 12, 2011The 2011 college football season is just around the corner, and we have went through and broke down each team to make our predictions for each conference . If you want to read up more on your favorite team, just click on your teams’ conference prediction link at the bottom of this article. SEC Prediction- The SEC has dominated college football over the past five seasons, winning five straight National Championships. There isn’t a conference that even comes close to the talent that the...
Read more about 2011 College Football Predictions 2011 Notre Dame Football Predictions - July 11, 2011Notre Dame hired Brian Kelly with the thought in mind that he would eventually bring them a national championship. The Fighting Irish got off to a shaky start in his first year on the job, but rebounded nicely down the stretch to finish 8-5 on the season. Notre Dame would win its final four games, which included blowout victories over Utah, Army and Miami (FL), along with a huge road win at USC. This team now comes into the 2011 season with a ton of momentum and national championship aspirations. The...
Read more about 2011 Notre Dame Football Predictions 2011 Independents Football Predictions - July 11, 2011Four years ago Navy beat Notre Dame for the first time in 44 years. They have won three of four meetings since, including last season’s 35-17 victory. The Midshipmen beat both the Irish and the Army Black Knights in 2010 to take home the Independent Championship. It was the fourth straight year that Navy finished as the #1 Independent, compiling a 35-18 record over that span. All three teams played in a bowl game last season, and the conference gets even stronger with the addition of a new team. The...
Read more about 2011 Independents Football Predictions Odds to Win the 2011 NCAA Tournament - March 14, 2011March Madness is here and this is heaven for college basketball fans. It means the time has come to fill out your brackets until you come up with which team you feel is going to win the 2011 National Championship. For those of you who just want to wager on which team will win it all, then there are odds listed on each team in the field. I will list those odds below while previewing a few of the favorites. They are listed in the order of their overall seeding, and as you can see Kansas is the favorite....
Read more about Odds to Win the 2011 NCAA Tournament 2011 Big East Tournament Basketball Predictions & Schedule - March 7, 2011The Big East is the most competitive league in the history of college basketball. That has certainly been the case in 2011 with 10 teams likely headed to the NCAA Tournament and a possible 11th. With the regular season in the books, the Big East Tournament is next. It starts on Tuesday, March 8th with every game being played at Madison Square Garden and the 5-day event lasts through the 12th. Every single game will be nationally televised on either ESPN, ESPN 2 or ESPNU so all who are interested...
Read more about 2011 Big East Tournament Basketball Predictions & Schedule Big East College Basketball Power Rankings - February 4, 2011The Big East Conference is a BEAST this year in College Basketball. How many teams with this conference get into the Big Dance? They should get a plenty and trust me it’s well deserved. The Big East could get at least 10 teams in the tournament, possibly 11 or how about even 12 teams in the Big Dance from one conference. It could happen this year but it’s doubtful with all the automatic bids from the weaker conferences. We’ll keep our eyes open down the stretch to see how the bottom of the...
Read more about Big East College Basketball Power Rankings Notre Dame at DePaul - February 2, 2011Coming off one of the biggest wins in program history, the ninth-ranked Notre Dame Fighting Irish look to avoid suffering what would be on of their worst losses ever. The Irish travel to face the DePaul Blue Demons who have lost 21 straight Big East games. Notre Dame has had some time off since beating then-No. 2 Pittsburgh 56-51 on January 24. It was only the second loss for the Panthers in their last 53 home games. Odds makers feel the Irish will respond just fine Thursday in a game that will be...
Read more about Notre Dame at DePaul Notre Dame at Pittsburgh - January 23, 2011The fifth-ranked Pittsburgh Panthers host No. 16 Notre Dame Monday in a Top 25 showdown between Big East rivals. Many feel Pitt is a squad that has the makeup of a Final Four team down the road, while the Fighting Irish continue to surprise folks when little was expected out of them this season. Notre Dame is still looking for it’s first road victory in league play, though, and odds makers don’t believe they’ll get it tonight. College basketball spreads are posted for Monday with a line of...
Read more about Notre Dame at Pittsburgh Cincinnati at Notre Dame - January 19, 2011The 16th-ranked Notre Dame Fighting Irish host the 25th-ranked Cincinnati Bearcats on Wednesday, January 19. The tip is set for 7:00 EST and will be nationally televised on ESPN 2. Notre Dame is reeling from a pair of blowout losses, while Cincinnati is also looking to bounce back from a lopsided defeat. Taking a look at the college basketball spreads for this Top 25 tussle, I find a line of Notre Dame -3 over Cincinnati with a total set of 130 points. Notre Dame (14-4, 3-3) started the season fast,...
Read more about Cincinnati at Notre Dame Notre Dame at Marquette - January 10, 2011The Marquette Golden Eagles will look for their first win over a Top 25 team when they host the No. 11 Notre Dame Fighting Irish Monday night in a Big East Conference showdown. Marquette fell 89-81 at No. 5 Pittsburgh on Saturday, their fourth straight loss against a ranked opponent. The Fighting Irish improved to 11-0 at home with a 76-61 win over St. John’s on Saturday, but are 0-1 in conference play this season. Taking a look at the NCAA basketball odds for this game, oddsmakers have Marquette...
Read more about Notre Dame at Marquette 2010 Sun Bowl Odds - December 28, 2010Notre Dame and Miami (Florida) used to play in high-profile games for years against one another, but their last meeting came back in 1990 and neither squad has had a whole lot of success since. The Fighting Irish (7-5) and the Hurricanes (7-5) will be playing in the 2010 Sun Bowl, which is one of the smaller bowl games on the schedule. Clearly Miami was not happy with the result considering they fired head coach Randy Shannon. First-year head man Brian Kelly is not satisfied either, but nonetheless...
Read more about 2010 Sun Bowl Odds Notre Dame vs Kentucky - December 8, 2010This Wednesday No.23 Notre Dame will face off against No. 16 Kentucky in the SEC/Big East Invitational. Even though Kentucky is rated higher in the standings, it is Notre Dame that comes into the game with a perfect 8-0 record. The game will be played at Freedom Hall, the former home court of the Louisville Cardinals. Freedom Hall is just about an hour from Kentucky’s campus, so look for the majority of the crowd to be cheering for the Wildcats. Notre Dame brings a ton of experience to the table,...
Read more about Notre Dame vs Kentucky Utah at Notre Dame - November 10, 2010This Saturday the Utah Utes will look get back on the winning track when they go on the road to take on the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. The Utes suffered there first loss of the season last week, falling to TCU 47-7. The Fighting Irish weren’t in action last week, and will look to snap a short two game losing streak with a big win at home. If you are thinking about betting on the game this weekend, the current college football odds have the Utes favored by 6-points over the Fighting Irish. Utah...
Read more about Utah at Notre Dame Tulsa at Notre Dame - October 28, 2010This Saturday the Notre Dame Fighting Irish will look to bounce back from a disappointing loss when they host the Tulsa Golden Hurricane. After rolling off three straight wins, the Fighting Irish stunk it up last week against Navy, losing 35-17. The Golden Hurricane are coming in off big 52-24 win over Tulane and have now won three of their last four. If you are thinking about betting on the game this weekend, the current college football odds have the Fighting Irish favored by 8.5-points over the...
Read more about Tulsa at Notre Dame College Football Picks: Navy vs. Notre Dame - October 18, 2010This Saturday the Notre Dame Fighting Irish will look for their fourth consecutive win when they take on the Navy Midshipmen at the new Meadowlands Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. After starting the season 1-3, the Fighting Irish improved t0 4-3 on the season with a 44-20 win at home against Western Michigan. The Midshipmen improved to 4-2 with a 28-21 win over Southern Methodist, and will look for their third win in the last four games against the Fighting Irish. The series has been extremely close...
Read more about College Football Picks: Navy vs. Notre Dame Western Michigan at Notre Dame - October 13, 2010This Saturday the Notre Dame Fighting Irish will look to move above .500 for the first time this season, as they get ready to host the Western Michigan Broncos. Notre Dame grabbed their second win in a row last week, as they did just enough to beat Pittsburgh 23-17 at home, while the Broncos snapped a two game losing streak with an easy 45-16 win at Ball State. The oddsmakers are calling for a Notre Dame route this weekend, as the current college football odds have the Fighting Irish favored by 24-points...
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