Head Coach Charlie Weis \u2013 who some see as sitting in a precarious position as the leader of one of College Football\u2019s most legendary, but recently under-achieving, programs \u2013 led his Irish squad to a dominating, season-opening 35-0 shutout of the Nevada Wolf Pack last week.<\/p>\n
CLICK HERE TO VIEW OUR PICKS FOR SATURDAY WEEK 2 NCAA FOOTBALL MATCHUPS \u2014\u2013><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Pivot Jimmy Clausen threw for four touchdowns as Notre Dame covered the 14-point spread. The unranked Wolverines, meanwhile, beat Western Michigan 31-7 in Week 1, covering the 14-point spread.<\/p>\n The teams are even straight up over the past 10 head-to-head (5-5 SU) but the Irish have a 7-3 ATS edge over that span.<\/p>\n The other big tilt Saturday features the only Top-25 matchup of Week 2, as the No. 3 USC Trojans battle the No. 8 Ohio State Buckeyes at The Horseshoe (8 pm ET, ESPN).<\/p>\n The Trojans are 7-point favorites and the over\/under is 44.5.<\/p>\n SoCal beat up the Buckeyes 35-3 in their last meeting on Sept 13 last season, as 11-point home favorites.<\/p>\n Last week, after San Jose State scored the first three points, USC woke up and put up 56 of their own, ultimately waltzing to a 56-3 win as colossal 35-point faves.<\/p>\n Ohio State wasn\u2019t quite as impressive last Saturday, beating Navy 31-27 thanks to some late-game heroics. The Buckeyes failed to cover as 22-point home favorites.<\/p>\n Check out betED.com for all the NCAA Football Lines<\/strong><\/a> this weekend.<\/p>\n Capperspicks.com wants you to know your online gambling dollar is SAFE & SECURE for all your 2009 college football gambling needs.<\/p>\n Check out our top online NCAA Football betting sportsbooks<\/a> today.<\/p>\n Week 2 betting preview for the top matchups in College football by betED online sportsbook, including previews of USC and Ohio State, and Notre Dame vs. Michigan…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[17150,14827,159,16952,1376,1640,279,313,16809,778,17148,17149,17096,17147,1337],"class_list":["post-13028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ncaa-football","tag-best-college-matchups-week-2","tag-best-matchups","tag-beted","tag-beted-cfb-odds","tag-beted-sportsbook","tag-betting-preview","tag-cfb","tag-college-football-betting","tag-ncaa-football-gambling-odds","tag-ncaaf","tag-notre-dame-vs-michigan","tag-notre-dame-vs-michigan-preview","tag-usc-vs-ohio-st-preview","tag-usc-vs-ohio-state","tag-week-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13028"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13031,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13028\/revisions\/13031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/banners.beted.com\/images\/banners\/NCAAF\/NCAAFGEN1M300X600.gif\")
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