Notre Dame vs. Louisville Preview: Top 20 Showdown Insights

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00:00Top 20 Tilt in South Bend between Notre Dame and Louisville. Joe, as we look at this spread,

00:10it is near a touchdown in favor of the fighting Irish. It was also near a touchdown, six and a

00:16half in favor of Notre Dame last year on the road against a top 25 ranked Louisville team. And if

00:23you remember, the Irish kept it close against Ohio State. The next week they won in dramatic

00:28comeback fashion on the road in Durham. Had to go to Louisville and play this game as well. We

00:34thought Notre Dame got their season back on track with the win over Riley Leonard and the Blue

00:40Devils. They got beat outright by the Cardinals. The only game Louisville has been an underdog

00:45under second year head coach Jeff Brom and they won outright. What are we going to see between

00:51these two top 20 teams on Saturday under the watchful eye of touchdown Jesus?

00:56Oh, well, listen, Ben, I love this. Another one of these revenge games here. As we all know,

01:02Notre Dame got burned by Jeff Brom and the Cardinals last year. Why? Because Sam Hartman

01:08forgot what team he was playing on and threw four interceptions. But Louisville had dominated

01:14Hartman when he was at Wake Forest. So there was some history there where maybe Hartman,

01:20maybe Louisville was in Hartman's head. The problem is Louisville did the same thing to

01:25Duke and Riley Leonard a year ago, won 23 to nothing. There went nine of 23 and it was embarrassing.

01:33Does that correlate into another bad showing? I think it does, Ben, and here's the reason why.

01:40Louisville cannot rush the ball. They can't rush. You are not going to beat Notre Dame by trying to

01:47air it out against that defense and putting him in harm's way here. If they can't run,

01:54I think Rourke is in big trouble. I think the defense of Notre Dame is going to show up big

01:59here. I think they get the revenge. If you like Notre Dame, don't be weary of the six and a half,

02:05Ben. They're going to win and win rather easily.