{"id":25419,"date":"2012-10-11T11:36:34","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T16:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=25419"},"modified":"2012-10-11T11:36:34","modified_gmt":"2012-10-11T16:36:34","slug":"college-football-week-7-picks-against-the-spread-stanford-cardinal-vs-notre-dame-fighting-irish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-week-7-picks-against-the-spread-stanford-cardinal-vs-notre-dame-fighting-irish-25419\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Week 7 Picks Against the Spread: Stanford Cardinal vs. Notre Dame Fighting Irish"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 17 Stanford Cardinal at No. 7 Notre Dame Fighting Irish
\nSaturday, 10\/13\/12, 3:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 NBC
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Notre Dame -9.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Notre Dame -7.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 49
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 44.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Notre Dame’s defense has been incredible this year<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Stanford takes a detour from its Pac-12 Conference schedule this week to take on Notre Dame in South Bend, as the team comes off a thrilling 54-48 overtime win over the Arizona Wildcats as 10-point home favorites.\u00a0 The Cardinal have been listed as underdogs just once this year, capturing a 21-14 victory over the USC Trojans when getting 9.5 points at home on Sept. 15.\u00a0 The program has won 10 consecutive regular season games against non-conference opponents, including each of the last three in this series.\u00a0 Stanford is 8-1 in its last nine games outside of conference play.<\/p>\n

The Cardinal have won nine straight games in the month of October, while winning their last three games when traveling back East.\u00a0 Stanford trailed by 14 points in the four quarter last week, but quarterback Josh Nunes led a furious comeback, finishing with a career-high five touchdowns.\u00a0 He also managed to throw for a career-high 360 yards with no interceptions, which should give him confidence in his second road start of the year.\u00a0 The running game gained a season-high 257 yards, averaging 6.0 yards per carry in that contest.<\/p>\n

Notre Dame has covered the point spread in four of its first five games this year, including a 41-3 blowout win over the Miami Hurricanes as 15-point home favorites.\u00a0 The Fighting Irish have been led by a stout defense that hasn\u2019t allowed a touchdown in three straight games, which is the longest such streak since 1980 for this storied program.\u00a0 Overall, the defensive unit ranks second nationally in allowing just 7.8 points per game, as it hasn\u2019t surrendered a rushing touchdown.\u00a0 Notre Dame is 0-2 ATS as a home favorite of 7.5 to 10 points the last two-plus years, with the UNDER going 2-0 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Fighting Irish own a 17-9 edge in this series, as they look to get back in the win column for the first time since 2008, which is the last time they kicked off as a favorite against the Cardinal.\u00a0 Notre Dame will welcome ESPN\u2019s College GameDay to its campus, which may cause the team to be overhyped, considering the program is 8-11 when being one of the featured teams of that particular event.\u00a0 Getting off to a good start is crucial, which is possible due to the team outscoring opponents by a 27-3 margin in the first quarter this year.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Fighting Irish due to their 4-1 ATS mark in October, while the Cardinal are 1-2 ATS after allowing 37 points or more in their previous game.<\/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":"

No. 17 Stanford Cardinal at No. 7 Notre Dame Fighting Irish Saturday, 10\/13\/12, 3:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 NBC Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Notre Dame -9.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Notre Dame -7.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 49 Current Total:\u00a0 44.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Stanford takes a detour from its Pac-12 Conference schedule this week to take on Notre […]<\/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":[3565,7085,1311,5263,2528],"class_list":["post-25419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-espn-college-gameday","tag-josh-nunes","tag-notre-dame-fighting-irish","tag-pac-12-conference","tag-stanford-cardinal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25419","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=25419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25420,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25419\/revisions\/25420"}],"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=25419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}