Pittsburgh vs Notre Dame College Football Predictions: The Panthers are (5-2) off a home loss last week getting beat up by Rutgers 54-34. They entered the game on a five-game winning streak, ranked in the top 20 and entertaining thoughts of winning the Big East Conference championship. Of course, that was before Rutgers routed them. Pitt hadn't allowed so many points since a 60-6 loss to Notre Dame in 1996, the final year of Majors' second turn as coach. The sports odds posted by the oddsmakers at Sportsbook.com currently list Notre Dame -4.5 favorites to Pittsburgh heading into thsi matchup.
"The good thing about this one," Pitt safety Eric Thatcher said Saturday, "is that it only counts as one loss, we took our lump and now we just need to get refocused and work hard and get ready for next game. We can't change what happened, but we have too many games left to get caught up thinking about this one. We had a bad game, we didn't get it done, we now must move on."
The Fighting Irish (5-2) blew out one of the worst teams in College Football last week, Washington on the road 33-7. They got the cover easily, as I couldn't believe that the Irish were only -8.5 favorites in the game. The Irish looked rusty on offense following its bye, with quarterback Jimmy Clausen frustrated and often misfiring. Clausen was 14/26 for 201 yards, 1 TD and 1 INT. If Claussen did not have the good WRs that he has this year than he would just be a below average QB. ND has finished the last three years in the top 10 in recruiting, depending on which ranking service you check. As of right now their class for next season is ranked 8th. The online sports betting odds at Sportsbook.com has the OVER/UNDER in this Pittsburgh vs Notre Dame is set at 50.5 points.
College Football Predictions: Pitt is a good team, but they have a horrible offensive coordinator and head coach. If Claussen gets pressured early in the game than he will play horribly. This game has a chance to be high scoring, I think it will be like the game in 2004 when Pitt won 41-38. With Notre Dame putting up some points on offense, and the way Pitt gave up 54 points to a Rutgers team they had trouble scoring all year long the right call in this game is to take the over the total. Over is 4-0 in Panthers last 4 vs. INDEP. Over is 5-1 in Fighting Irish last 6 vs. Big East.
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