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Purdue Boilermakers vs. Notre Dame Fighting Irish odds had Notre Dame as a -11 ½ home favorite at betED.com. This game goes off Saturday September 4 at 3:30 pm EST and is one of the first College Football games to be broadcast on national television (NBC).
Purdue will be starting a new quarterback.
“Going into the season, coming off some big wins last year, that gives us some confidence in some ways, which is good,” Coach Danny Hope says. “It’s a whole different football team. If we have the intangibles of last year’s football team, the never-quit, and the want-to that bunch had and at the same time execute better and take care of the football, then we have a chance to be pretty successful.”
Notre Dame is the big home favorite in this one.
Brian Kelly takes over as coach of the Fighting Irish.
Kelly’s 2009 Cincinnati Bearcats team went 12–0 in the regular season and finished fourth in the country in scoring offense at 38.6 points per game.
With Jimmy Clausen off to the NFL, Dayne Crist is the new quarterback.
“Mentally, he’s ahead of the other guys and he’s very confident in what he needs to do day to day,” says offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach Charley Molnar of Crist. “That doesn’t mean that he’s right all the time, but he’s very confident going into every play.”
Other big games going off September 4 with odds:
Connecticut +3 vs. Michigan
Oregon State +13 ½ TCU
Kentucky -3 Louisville
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Dan Shapiro, Gambling911.com
