{"id":56577,"date":"2012-10-25T14:29:08","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T21:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.capperspicks.com\/blog\/?p=56577"},"modified":"2012-10-25T14:29:29","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T21:29:29","slug":"notre-dame-fighting-irish-vs-ou-sooners-free-gambling-prediction-251012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/ncaa-football\/notre-dame-fighting-irish-vs-ou-sooners-free-gambling-prediction-251012\/","title":{"rendered":"Notre Dame Fighting Irish vs. Oklahoma Sooners Free Gambling Prediction & Week 9 Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fighting Irish vs Sooners NCAA Football Spread\/Handicapping<\/h2>\n

You have to love the way Vegas pulls no punches. Notre Dame is enjoying their best season in recent memory, perfect so far, with a punishing defense but they are still 11 point underdogs while visiting an Oklahoma team that has already lost at home once this season.<\/p>\n

#5 Notre Dame Fighting Irish (7-0) vs #7 Oklahoma Sooners (5-1)<\/strong>
\n Saturday October 27<\/strong>
\n Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium – Norman, OK<\/strong>
\n 8:00PM<\/strong>
\nMoneyline: \u00a0Oklahoma -400, Notre Dame +325 From TopBet.eu<\/a><\/strong>
\n Spread: \u00a0Oklahoma -11<\/strong>
\n O\/U: \u00a048<\/strong><\/p>\n

Notre Dame<\/strong><\/p>\n

I was having trouble believing the Irish were an elite team and clearly I am not the only one. \u00a0It is possible they get embarrassed on Saturday. \u00a0This squad is a paper tiger right now.<\/p>\n

According to the numbers Notre Dame has the second best defense in the country. \u00a0<\/p>\n

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It will be pushed to the limit by Oklahoma and it will be critical for them to perform at a high level for the Irish to have a chance. \u00a0That is because the ND offense has some real question marks. \u00a0The running game has come alive as of late but the passing game with rotating QBs hasn\u2019t solidified. \u00a0Further I am not sure they have the receiving weapons to play catchup.<\/p>\n

In all but two contest Notre Dame has been held to 20 points or fewer and I think they are going to need considerably more scoring to keep pace with Oklahoma. \u00a0Those are 11 big points but I think it is important not to get too carried away with the Irish success to date. <\/p>\n

\u00a0If you don\u2019t buy the hype then play against…if you do, maybe sit this one out because you might not be objective enough. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Nobody ever is with ND.<\/p>\n

Oklahoma<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oklahoma was stunned by Kansas State a few weeks back but it looks like that game might have shaken out the cobwebs. <\/p>\n

\u00a0Since then they have beaten Texas Tech, Texas and Kansas all by at least 21 points. \u00a0Their 63-21 beating of the Longhorns in the Red River Rivalry was one of the worst beatings the annual series has ever seen. \u00a0 [soliloquy id=”82219″]<\/p>\n

Oklahoma is looking at this game as a chance to reinsert themselves back into the BCS picture.<\/p>\n

Quarterback Landry Jones may not be living up to expectations but he is still one of the better pivots in the nation. \u00a0He has the offense rocking right now and the defense is playing much better too. \u00a0Jones will look to test an Irish secondary that has not been pushed in their early success. \u00a0<\/p>\n

The Oklahoma receiving corp led by Kenny Stills is a beast to handle, especially because you have to respect a run game averaging nearly 200 yards a contest.<\/p>\n

If this were a smaller number I would bet the Oklahoma side big time. \u00a0Still at under a couple of TDs I like the Sooners as I think they will continue their stretch of impressive wins. \u00a0<\/p>\n

This one has great teaser potential too as you can bring it down to under a TD. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Oklahoma at home feels very good against an Irish team still not quite there yet.<\/p>\n

Spread Pick: \u00a0Oklahoma -11
\nO\/U Pick: \u00a0Over
\nScore Prediction: \u00a0Oklahoma 38 – Notre Dame 24<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fighting Irish vs Sooners NCAA Football Spread\/Handicapping You have to love the way Vegas pulls no punches. Notre Dame is enjoying their best season in recent memory, perfect so far, with a punishing defense but they are still 11 point underdogs while visiting an Oklahoma team that has already lost at home once this season. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":29608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ncaa-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56577","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\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56577"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65319,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56577\/revisions\/65319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}