If you’re not excited for the Camping World Bowl I get it. I’m not anywhere near a level I’d be at if it was Notre Dame playing in the Cotton or Orange Bowl but that’s not changing.
This is the last time we’ll see Team 132 together and I’m hoping they go out victorious.
It’s a weird place to be.
A decade ago if you told me I’d feel at all disappointed as a lifelong Notre Dame fan after a 10-2 regular season I’d have thought you were nuts.
The program was broken, ten wins hadn’t happened in a single season since 2006 and had happened just twice in the sixteen seasons previous.
Now we sit and perhaps things aren’t where we ultimately want them to be, but guess what, they’re still in a pretty good spot compared to where they were.
Next year will come and the same expectations for a push to the College Football Playoff will be the expectation, but we’ll discuss that over the next eight months because we’ll have plenty of time to.
For now let’s enjoy this last ride together for 2019, a team that could probably be described like they did Apollo-11: A successful failure.
If you’re not excited for the Camping World Bowl I get it. I’m not anywhere near a level I’d be at if it was Notre Dame playing in the Cotton or Orange Bowl but that’s not changing.
This is the last time we’ll see Team 132 together and I’m hoping they go out victorious.
It’ll be a long eight months until we get to see this team in action again.
If you’re not ready for the game after my pep talk I’m hardly surprised, so I’ll let senior defensive end Daelin Hayes take over from here.
If given the opportunity Notre Dame has to step on throats and not let up because the second they do the Cyclones will, get this, come storming back.
No. 14 Notre Dame wraps up their 2019 campaign Saturday as they take on 7-5 Iowa State for the first time in program history in the annual Camping World Bowl in Orlando, Florida.
There isn’t a ton at stake for Notre Dame besides pride and it being the final time we’ll see the likes of Chase Claypool and others in a Fighting Irish uniform, you hope to see them go out after a win.
What does Notre Dame have to do in order to secure that win however against an upstart Iowa State program who is led by one of the best and brightest young coaches in all of college football?
Previewing Saturday’s Camping World Bowl betting odds and lines between Notre Dame and Iowa State with betting picks, tips and bets.
The Notre Dame Fighting Irish (10-2) and Iowa State Cyclones (7-5) meet Saturday in the Camping World Bowl in Orlando, Fla., for a noon ET kickoff (on ABC). We analyze the Notre Dame-Iowa State odds and betting lines, while providing college football betting tips and advice on this matchup.
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Notre Dame vs. Iowa State: Three things to know
1. Notre Dame enters on a five-game winning streak, and it went 4-0 against the spread over the last four games. The Irish were 8-4 ATS on the season. Meanwhile, the Cyclones are limping into this one after going 2-3 in the last five games and 0-3 ATS in the last three – they are 5-6-1 ATS on the season.
2. The Irish, behind QB Ian Book, rank 13th in the nation in scoring at 37.1 points per game. Meanwhile, Cyclones sophomore QB Brock Purdy is fourth in the country in passing yards (3,760), while the offense ranks 26th in scoring (34.1 PPG).
3. The Irish are 3-2 in their last five bowl games but were crushed 30-3 last season in a College Football Playoff semifinal at the Cotton Bowl by the eventual champion Clemson Tigers. The Cyclones are 2-3 in their last five bowl appearances, most recently falling to the Washington Huskies 28-26 in the 2018 Alamo Bowl – Iowa State scored with 4:02 left but came up short when a potential game-tying, 2-point conversation failed.
Notre Dame vs. Iowa State: Odds, betting lines and picks
Iowa State QB Brock Purdy. (Photo Credit: Reese Strickland – USA TODAY Sports)
AVOID. Notre Dame is -161. Every $1.61 wagered on the Irish to win outright would profit $1 if they do so. Betting on Iowa State (+135) would profit 1.35-to-1 if the Cyclones win outright. I’m going to PASS and focus on the Irish spread.
NOTRE DAME (-3.5, -106) is the STRONGEST PLAY. The Irish are just a better team, including having an edge when it comes to talent among the second-stringers (backups).
A slight lean to the UNDER 53.5 (-106). Notre Dame’s defense – led by senior DL Khalid Kareem and Adetokunbo Ogundeji – ranks 14th in points allowed at 18.7 PPG. The Cyclones defense is 52nd in points allowed (25.3). Notre Dame is 5-7 on the O/U line this season, while Iowa State is 5-6-1.
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Johnny’s December record: 15-6-1. Strongest plays: 8-1.
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