{"id":17612,"date":"2011-09-10T06:12:28","date_gmt":"2011-09-10T11:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=17612"},"modified":"2011-09-10T06:12:28","modified_gmt":"2011-09-10T11:12:28","slug":"notre-dame-fighting-irish-at-michigan-wolverines-2011-college-football-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/notre-dame-fighting-irish-at-michigan-wolverines-2011-college-football-picks-17612\/","title":{"rendered":"Notre Dame Fighting Irish at Michigan Wolverines 2011 College Football Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Notre Dame Fighting Irish at Michigan Wolverines
\nSaturday, 9\/10\/11, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Notre Dame -3
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Notre Dame -3
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 55.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 55
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Notre Dame WR Michael Floyd is expected to have a huge game against Michigan Saturday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Notre Dame looks to move past its opening week loss to South Florida and start anew during the 2011 season as a three-point road favorite over the Michigan Wolverines.\u00a0 The Fighting Irish have already made one quarterback change in 2011, benching starter Dayne Crist and moving forward with Tommy Rees.\u00a0 \u201cWe don\u2019t come to this decision thinking, \u2018Well, he\u2019ll give us one game and then we\u2019ll go back to Dayne,\u201d Irish head coach Brian Kelly stated.\u00a0 Rees seems to have a better connection to star wide receiver Michael Floyd, as the two connected on 10 passes last week.\u00a0 Notre Dame is 3-12 ATS as a favorite and 2-6 ATS in September.<\/p>\n

The Fighting Irish will be glad to participate in the first-ever night games at the Big House due to winning all three previous meetings with the Wolverines during prime time.\u00a0 Notre Dame also held a 508-254 total yards advantage last week that has many believing in a bounce back performance.\u00a0 It\u2019s going to rely heavily on a defense that has allowed just five offensive touchdowns in the team\u2019s last six games dating back to last season.\u00a0 The school is one of seven teams that ranks in the top 25 of both total offense and total defense.<\/p>\n

Michigan leads the all-time series with Notre Dame, 22-15-1, and has won the last two meetings as underdogs.\u00a0 The Wolverines tallied a 28-24 win as 3.5-point road underdogs in 2010, as quarterback Denard Robinson set a school record with 502 yards of total offense.\u00a0 It\u2019s also important to note that the program has won five of its last six games when hosting the Irish and the team is 7-2 when ESPN College GameDay has been present in Ann Arbor.\u00a0 Michigan is 6-9 ATS at home the last two-plus years.<\/p>\n

The Wolverines expect to win this game by outscoring the Irish and a lot of the responsibility will be placed on the offensive line to protect Robinson in a more pro-style offense.\u00a0 Michigan allowed just 11 sacks a year ago and didn\u2019t surrender one in the team\u2019s 34-10 win over Western Michigan as 14.5-point home favorites.\u00a0 First-year head coach Brady Hoke is still disappointed in last week\u2019s game being shortened due to rain, as the team had more things to work on prior to this rivalry clash.\u00a0 \u201cThere\u2019s some things that we didn\u2019t get to in the offense that maybe we would have liked to,\u201d Hoke stated after the game.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Fighting Irish due to their 7-3 ATS mark as road favorites, while the Wolverines are 11-27 ATS overall.<\/p>\n

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Notre Dame Fighting Irish at Michigan Wolverines Saturday, 9\/10\/11, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Notre Dame -3 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Notre Dame -3 Opening Total:\u00a0 55.5 Current Total:\u00a0 55 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Notre Dame looks to move past its opening week loss to South Florida and start anew during the 2011 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":5050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[3124,3314,3565,468,1311,5089],"class_list":["post-17612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-dayne-crist","tag-denard-robinson","tag-espn-college-gameday","tag-michigan-wolverines","tag-notre-dame-fighting-irish","tag-tommy-rees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17612","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=17612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17613,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17612\/revisions\/17613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}