{"id":29926,"date":"2013-09-04T17:53:49","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T22:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=29926"},"modified":"2013-09-04T17:53:49","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T22:53:49","slug":"college-football-week-2-picks-notre-dame-fighting-irish-vs-michigan-wolverines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-week-2-picks-notre-dame-fighting-irish-vs-michigan-wolverines-29926\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Week 2 Picks: Notre Dame Fighting Irish vs. Michigan Wolverines"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. 14 Notre Dame Fighting Irish vs. No. 17 Michigan Wolverines
\nSaturday, 9\/7\/13, 8:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Michigan -4
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Michigan -4
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 51
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 52
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Michigan Wolverines are 13-6 ATS as favorites since 2011<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Notre Dame picked up a 28-6 victory over the Temple Owls as 27.5-point home favorites last Saturday, while going UNDER the betting total of 53.\u00a0 The Fighting Irish won the statistical battle by 181 yards, which can\u2019t be ignored when making your college football betting picks Saturday night.\u00a0 The program has played 17 games decided by a touchdown or less since the arrival of head coach Brian Kelly\u2014posting a 2-5 record in the first seven games of that nature, but winning nine of the last 10.\u00a0 Notre Dame is 9-3-2 ATS as road underdogs of 3.5 to 7 points in its last 14 opportunities.<\/p>\n

The Fighting Irish are 11-0 under Kelly\u2019s direction when playing an entire game without committing a turnover, which could come in handy in this matchup, considering 18 of the last 28 meetings in this series have been decided by seven points or less.\u00a0 Notre Dame still possesses one of the best defenses in the country\u2014a unit that has allowed fewest rushing touchdowns nationally over its last 31 games of action.\u00a0 In 40 all-time meetings in this series, the average margin of victory has been 4.1 points.<\/p>\n

Michigan\u2019s 59 points in last week\u2019s win over Central Michigan was the most by the program in a season opener since 1905, which is important to consider when looking over the college football odds page.\u00a0 Wolverines quarterback Devin Gardner is one of the more dynamic players in the country, as he\u2019s recorded at least two touchdowns in six consecutive contests.\u00a0 The team has won six of its last seven meetings against Notre Dame in Ann Arbor.\u00a0 Michigan is 13-6-1 ATS as favorites the last two-plus seasons, with no edge in terms of the betting total (10-10 Over\/Under).<\/p>\n

The Wolverines have won 18 consecutive games at Michigan Stadium in the month of September, while Brady Hoke became the school\u2019s first head coach to go undefeated at home in his first two seasons since 1901-02.\u00a0 Under the guidance of defensive coordinator Greg Mattison, Michigan has finished back-to-back seasons ranked in the top 20 in total defense for the first time since 1997-98.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Wolverines due to their 12-5-1 ATS mark in their last 18 non-conference games.<\/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. 14 Notre Dame Fighting Irish vs. No. 17 Michigan Wolverines Saturday, 9\/7\/13, 8:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Michigan -4 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Michigan -4 Opening Total:\u00a0 51 Current Total:\u00a0 52 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Notre Dame picked up a 28-6 victory over the Temple Owls as 27.5-point home favorites last Saturday, while going […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":29319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[4217,1192,7537,3925,468,1311],"class_list":["post-29926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-brady-hoke","tag-brian-kelly","tag-devin-gardner","tag-michigan-stadium","tag-michigan-wolverines","tag-notre-dame-fighting-irish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29926","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=29926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29927,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29926\/revisions\/29927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}