{"id":12028,"date":"2010-12-31T08:29:08","date_gmt":"2010-12-31T13:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=12028"},"modified":"2010-12-31T08:29:08","modified_gmt":"2010-12-31T13:29:08","slug":"miami-hurricanes-vs-notre-dame-fighting-irish-sun-bowl-picks-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/miami-hurricanes-vs-notre-dame-fighting-irish-sun-bowl-picks-predictions-12028\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Hurricanes vs Notre Dame Fighting Irish Sun Bowl Picks & Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Miami Hurricanes vs Notre Dame Fighting Irish
\nFriday, 12\/31\/10, 2:00 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 CBS
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Miami -3.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Miami -3
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 45.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 47<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Notre Dame is searching for its first four-game winning streak since the 2007 season and is currently an underdog in the 2010 Sun Bowl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Miami is ready to take on Notre Dame in the nation\u2019s second-oldest bowl games, as the two teams meet in the 77th annual Hyundai Sun Bowl in El Paso, Texas. \u00a0 The Hurricanes will be led by interim head coach Jeff Stoutland due to the team firing previous front man Randy Shannon after a 23-20 overtime loss to South Florida on November 27.\u00a0 \u201cIf I wasn\u2019t involved in this game, Miami versus Notre Dame, it would be a game I would definitely watch,\u201d Stoutland commented.\u00a0 The program announced on December 12 that it would hire Al Golden, who engineered an impressive turnaround of Temple\u2019s program.\u00a0 Miami is making its third-straight postseason bowl appearance and 36th overall.\u00a0 The team is 19-16 in its previous 35 bowl games and 6-4 in its last 10.\u00a0 Over the last three years, Miami is 17-19 ATS and is currently slightly favored on the college football lines page.<\/p>\n

The Hurricanes will be accustomed to playing the Fighting Irish moving forward, as the two teams signed a three-game series that will begin in 2012.\u00a0 Miami is 7-15-1 all-time against Notre Dame, but has won five of the last seven meetings.\u00a0 A key statistic to focus in on during this contest is turnovers, as the defense ranks 17th nationally and ninth among BCS programs in creating 28 miscues this season.\u00a0 Offensively, the team is averaging 27.1 points per game and 422.6 total yards a contest.<\/p>\n

Notre Dame is riding a three-game winning streak and could register its fourth consecutive victory on Friday, which would be the longest winning streak for the program since 2006.\u00a0 \u201cNobody has their eyes set on the Sun Bowl when you start the season.\u00a0 Nobody does,\u201d said head coach Brian Kelly.\u00a0 \u201cBut you are playing Miami in a bowl game, it sold out in 24 hours, it\u2019s a great matchup that goes back so many years.\u201d\u00a0 The Fighting Irish defense has held opponents to 233.3 yards per game during the win streak after surrendering 393.1 before that.\u00a0 Notre Dame is 5-4 ATS on the season and 4-0 ATS when playing with two or more weeks off the last three seasons.<\/p>\n

The Fighting Irish will be making their 30th bowl appearance in the program\u2019s history today, collecting a 14-15 record in the process.\u00a0 Notre Dame had lost nine straight bowl games until recording a 49-21 victory over Hawaii in the 2008 Sheraton Hawaii Bowl in Honolulu.\u00a0 Today\u2019s game will mark the eighth bowl appearance in the state of Texas, with the team garnering a 5-2 record in the previous seven chances.\u00a0 Kelly has a great chance of improving upon that mark due to having the seventh-best record among all college football coaches since the start of the 2007 campaign (40-11).<\/p>\n

Bettors will be interested in knowing that the Hurricanes are 1-4 ATS as a bowl favorite, while the Fighting Irish are 0-5 ATS in bowl games as an underdog.<\/p>\n

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Miami Hurricanes vs Notre Dame Fighting Irish Friday, 12\/31\/10, 2:00 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 CBS Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Miami -3.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Miami -3 Opening Total:\u00a0 45.5 Current Total:\u00a0 47 Miami is ready to take on Notre Dame in the nation\u2019s second-oldest bowl games, as the two teams meet in the 77th annual Hyundai Sun […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":7117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[1192,4291,1083,1311,1265],"class_list":["post-12028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-brian-kelly","tag-jeff-stoutland","tag-miami-hurricanes","tag-notre-dame-fighting-irish","tag-sun-bowl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12028"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12030,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12028\/revisions\/12030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}