PREMIUM
Rogers' 10* Sunday Night SHOWDOWN (Notre Dame/Texas) - Won 38-3 Last Year
(NCAAF) Notre Dame vs. Texas,
09/04/2016 3:30 PM, Score: 47 - 50
Point Spread: 3.50 | -107.00 Texas (Home)
Result: Win
Point Spread: 3.50 | -107.00 Texas (Home)
Result: Win
Notre Dame: The Fighting Irish were viable playoff contenders until the team's crushing 38-36 loss on November 28th at Stanford, when the Cardinal's winning FG came on the game's final play. Notre Dame then ended the year with a 44-28 loss to Ohio State in the Fiesta Bowl, finishing 10-3. The Fighting Irish began 2015 with Malik Zaire as their starting QB but he was lost to a fractured ankle in the season's second game. DeShone Kizer led Notre Dame to a miracle win at Virginia in Week 2, then QB'd the rest of the way. Remember, Notre Dame's two regular-season losses last year came by a total of just four points! That said, Brian Kelly has just nine returning starters in 2016.
Texas: The Longhorns look like an improved team after closing the 2015 season with a 23-17 win at Baylor, as a three-TD underdog. Strong brought in a another good recruiting class and he's clearly on the ‘hottest' of ‘hot seats' in 2016, after going 11-14 in his first two years at Austin. Texas returns 15 starters this season but senior QB Tyrone Swoopes hasn't shown the ability to really take command of the team these last two seasons. Strong hasn't revealed his QB choice just yet but most feel that true freshman Shane Buechele will be the starter. I so, he'll be the first true freshman to start for the Longhorns since Bobby Layne way back in 1944.
The pick: ND head coach Brian Kelly apparently couldn't make up his mind about his QB, so DeShone Kizer and Malik Zaire will split duties for the 10th-ranked Irish. "They have both have been outstanding, they both make plays," Kelly said. "They both are playmakers. We would just continue to practice and continue to see both of these guys make plays. So we're going to play both of them at Texas." These schools opened the 2015 season against each other as well, with the Irish winning 38-3 at South Bend, while outgaining the Longhorns 527-163. Swoopes got the start last season at Notre Dame and went 7-of-22 for 93 yards (0 TDs / 0 INTs), making it even more likely that freshman Buechele will "be the man." Texas owns a huge revenge motive and as Texas defensive coordinator Vance Bedford told reporters, "The attitude of the team right now – offense, defense, special teams – is something we didn't have last year, in my opinion. Guys are focused, ready to go. They're ready to prove that last year was a fluke." The Longhorns have won 15 consecutive home openers, so make Texas a 10* play..
Texas: The Longhorns look like an improved team after closing the 2015 season with a 23-17 win at Baylor, as a three-TD underdog. Strong brought in a another good recruiting class and he's clearly on the ‘hottest' of ‘hot seats' in 2016, after going 11-14 in his first two years at Austin. Texas returns 15 starters this season but senior QB Tyrone Swoopes hasn't shown the ability to really take command of the team these last two seasons. Strong hasn't revealed his QB choice just yet but most feel that true freshman Shane Buechele will be the starter. I so, he'll be the first true freshman to start for the Longhorns since Bobby Layne way back in 1944.
The pick: ND head coach Brian Kelly apparently couldn't make up his mind about his QB, so DeShone Kizer and Malik Zaire will split duties for the 10th-ranked Irish. "They have both have been outstanding, they both make plays," Kelly said. "They both are playmakers. We would just continue to practice and continue to see both of these guys make plays. So we're going to play both of them at Texas." These schools opened the 2015 season against each other as well, with the Irish winning 38-3 at South Bend, while outgaining the Longhorns 527-163. Swoopes got the start last season at Notre Dame and went 7-of-22 for 93 yards (0 TDs / 0 INTs), making it even more likely that freshman Buechele will "be the man." Texas owns a huge revenge motive and as Texas defensive coordinator Vance Bedford told reporters, "The attitude of the team right now – offense, defense, special teams – is something we didn't have last year, in my opinion. Guys are focused, ready to go. They're ready to prove that last year was a fluke." The Longhorns have won 15 consecutive home openers, so make Texas a 10* play..
