{"id":25048,"date":"2012-09-19T09:30:05","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T14:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=25048"},"modified":"2012-09-19T09:30:47","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T14:30:47","slug":"michigan-wolverines-vs-notre-dame-fighting-irish-week-4-college-football-betting-odds-and-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/michigan-wolverines-vs-notre-dame-fighting-irish-week-4-college-football-betting-odds-and-predictions-25048\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan Wolverines vs. Notre Dame Fighting Irish: Week 4 College Football Betting Odds and Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michigan Wolverines at Notre Dame Fighting Irish
\nSaturday, 9\/22\/12, 7:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 NBC
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Notre Dame -6.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Notre Dame -5.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 51
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 51
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Notre Dame Fighting Irish defense has been outstanding through three games<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Michigan will meet Saturday\u2019s opponent for the 40th time on the gridiron, posting a 23-15-1 all-time record in this rivalry.\u00a0 The Wolverines have won three consecutive games in the series, including a thrilling 35-31 victory as 3.5-point home underdogs last year.\u00a0 Quarterback Denard Robinson has been amazing against Notre Dame, as he set a school record with 502 yards of total offense in this contest a year ago.\u00a0 \u201cHe\u2019s a superior football player,\u201d commented Fighting Irish head coach Brian Kelly.\u00a0 Michigan is 4-11 ATS when playing against a team with a winning record the last two-plus seasons, something to consider when making your Week 4 college football picks.<\/p>\n

The Wolverines were led by Robinson in last week\u2019s 63-13 blowout win over Massachusetts as 45-point home favorites, as he threw for 291 yards and ran for another 106.\u00a0 Dating back to the 2009 campaign, Michigan has won 14 of its last 15 September contests, with the lone setback coming against the top-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide in this year\u2019s season opener.<\/p>\n

Notre Dame has opened up a campaign with three wins for the first time in 10 years, with the defense leading the way, allowing only 10.0 points per game.\u00a0 \u201cThey have been very productive as a football team and a defensive team,\u201d commented Wolverines head coach Brady Hoke this week.\u00a0 The Fighting Irish are benefiting in a big way from being plus-five in turnover margin, which is far different than the minus-eight it suffered through in the first three games in 2011.\u00a0 Notre Dame is 3-6 ATS as a home favorite, with the \u201cunder\u201d going 9-3 in that situation the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Fighting Irish have outscored their first three opponents by a 20-0 margin in the first quarter, while also dominating the final stanza.\u00a0 Notre Dame out-gained Navy, Purdue and Michigan State by a 260-103 margin in terms of yards in the fourth quarter.\u00a0 The turnover margin statistic can\u2019t be mentioned enough, considering the program hasn\u2019t had fewer turnovers through the first three games since 1993.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Fighting Irish when coming up with their college football predictions, as the home team is 4-1 ATS in the last five meetings.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t miss out on a winning season and let the college football handicappers at Maddux Sports line your pockets with cash.\u00a0 Long term packages are available now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michigan Wolverines at Notre Dame Fighting Irish Saturday, 9\/22\/12, 7:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 NBC Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Notre Dame -6.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Notre Dame -5.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 51 Current Total:\u00a0 51 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Michigan will meet Saturday\u2019s opponent for the 40th time on the gridiron, posting a 23-15-1 all-time record in this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":23934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[4217,1192,3314,468,1311],"class_list":["post-25048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-brady-hoke","tag-brian-kelly","tag-denard-robinson","tag-michigan-wolverines","tag-notre-dame-fighting-irish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25048","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=25048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25049,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25048\/revisions\/25049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}