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College Football Championship Analysis: Ohio State vs. Notre Dame
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1/20/2025
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eight and a half point spread in favor of the Buckeyes total 45 and a hook and as Donnie said it is now time for your
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National Championship pick three otherwise known in college football as the triple option our favorite side
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total and prop for tonight's national championship game the RS, Ohio State
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outscoring opponents by on average by
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19.7 points per game throughout the three games so far in the CFP more than a touchdown
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Favorite to win a national championship
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Tonight will the Buckeyes cover will this game be closer than we expect?
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What is your favorite side for tonight's title game in Atlanta?
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There's only two sides to go with I'm gonna take the points with the Notre Dame
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Fighting Irish here and why am I picking Notre Dame because I do think that offense can be
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Opportunistic when it needs to and I know there's a lot of slander on how much better Ohio State is man for man
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Which is correct here
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But you look at the length of the season the teams that they played and the points that they scored for Notre Dame and the defense
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They play there's no reason to believe that Notre Dame won't be involved in this game with a legitimate chance to win even though
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I don't think they will but I'm certainly not gonna pass up eight and a half points on a neutral site with a football team
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That's built on good defense and a ground attack and a veteran
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quarterback that can make plays when he's need to and it's already come back from a deficit against Penn State in the final moments of
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The game to rise and shine. That's where I'm going in this one
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Don't love them to win the game with a legitimate chance to actually pop the upset
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But there's no reason to believe this game won't be a one-possession game in the fourth quarter and I'll take my chances
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with the eight and a half points I
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Have said it many a time. I'll say it one final time
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I have a national championship ticket on both teams that will square off to be crowned a national champion tonight
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I feel good about where I stand
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I do believe that ticket on Ohio State that I bet back in the first week of October
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Will be the one that actually wins this evening, but much like Donnie
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I think Notre Dame's defense is good enough to keep them within striking distance of this game
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And I think the fighting Irish offense that is predicated on establishing that run like we are doing here in the triple option
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We'll do enough to keep the Irish within that margin Notre Dame
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Plus eight and a half and Donnie
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I think we have a correlated thought on how that might go
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When they total of 45 and a hulk against the nation's best scoring defense in
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Ohio State if the Irish is the key pace they need to score and be successful
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Offensively, what is your favorite total tonight in the national championship?
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I'm gonna go with the team total and one of those team totals was Notre Dame here at 17 and a half
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The other one was Ohio State hovering around that can we score close to four touchdowns?
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I thought to myself
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I just go back game by game script by script and say Notre Dame to get to 20 points is essentially what you're asking for
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They should be able to do that here even in a blowout bed
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Even in a close game where they're still under wraps at this point
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They haven't shown any propensity to be a really bad
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Offensive team and also I get how good Ohio State is still quality
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Offensive players at running back quarterback and a good offensive line for Notre Dame
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They should be able to put points up
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You don't have to win the game or cover enough for them to think they can cross over to 18 plus points in this game
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So for me, I just want to take the simple route
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I'm gonna get an honest effort out of Notre Dame and you're always in this now
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Of course if they have three points in the fourth quarter, that's gonna be some tough doing but in what shape are you saying that?
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Notre Dame won't even be competitive enough to have double digits by the time they enter the fourth quarter
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I'm not buying that give me Notre Dame's team total over 17 and a half
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There have been times this year where Ohio State has allowed a yardage on the ground
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Of course, that would be heavily beneficial for this fighting Irish offensive scheme tonight
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Coordinated by Mike Denbrock Riley Leonard Jeremiah love to Darion price getting back in the fold after a quiet game
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Against Penn State and Aeneas Williams out of the backfield
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Ohio State only allowed 58 rushing yards to Texas just about two yards per carry
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But they did allow Jaden blue to have a receiving score in
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To receiving scores. I should say in Quintry beyond
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Why is there for Texas to be heavily involved in a past game as well?
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That's where I think you look to Aeneas Williams tonight for Notre Dame. Yeah, honey. I'm not thinking this game is a shootout
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I don't think we see 60 points. I don't think we see 70 points heck
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We might not even see 50, but I do believe we can go over 45 and a half
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Also because Ohio State offensively has been elite throughout the college football playoff
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But I do believe Notre Dame to keep this game even remotely competitive is going to have to score
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Over 45 and a half is how I look at it
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This is not a Notre Dame team that has gotten here because they win games 17 to 14 all year long
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This is a Notre Dame team that ranked third in
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Scoring offense this season in points per game the first time in more than two decades
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The Irish have been a top five scoring offense
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nationally in
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College football so DRS as we look now for our favorite prop to route out the triple option
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What gets your attention in the national title game?
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Let's have a fun one here at the fan blue sportsbook. How about fourth quarter points total over ten and a half?
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We usually know the fourth quarter
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Even if it's close still tends to get squirrely at times you have teams that might be blowing a team out giving up easy
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Yardage and easy points going one direction and also the ability for one team
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Technically running out the clock hitting home runs on the ground with very good running backs like Ohio State and the one thing I do
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Understand about this. I've said during the year multiple times sometimes not about style points like in the playoffs Ben survive in advance
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You see style points a lot in national championship games
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This is the last go-around for some of these players if they're up 14 points on the 18-yard line with four minutes to go
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Ryan days punch you get another touchdown and vice versa for Marcus Freeman. Let's go over ten and a half for the fourth quarter
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31 total points in the Orange Bowl in the college football playoffs semi-final in that fourth quarter between the Irish and Penn State
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14 points all scored by Ohio State in the fourth quarter of the Cottonball
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I'll talk more about my prop on the other side
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But it is a Mecca abuca over
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59 and a half one of the tough things about not living in the Great Garden State
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You can't bet college football player props in New York
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This number was 55 and a hook earlier this week when I gave it out on sports grid with our partners
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