Week 8 Prediction Poll (ND @ Temple)
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ND wins 28-10.
ND offense will have it's struggles, but does more than enough to win comfortably. Temple will not be able to sustain drives and will score on one big play for a TD and other big play will set up a FG.
ND offense will have it's struggles, but does more than enough to win comfortably. Temple will not be able to sustain drives and will score on one big play for a TD and other big play will set up a FG.
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I hope you're right. KVR should have a much easier time keeping up with the receivers this week after Juju last week, hopefully giving him plenty of time to put eyes on the ball. Plus Temple QB kept overthrowing receivers by 5 yards on deep throws last week. possible that KVR & Co. are fast enough to track those down, I dont think Temple receivers are known for speed.
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ND 42-20 in a game that really isn't as close as the 22-point differential.
ND comes out clicking on offense immediately in primetime against an undefeated Temple squad. No way they can come out flat against a team that's 7-0, right?
Temple's LB's are good and aggressive, so CJ runs the stretch play a few times on the opening drive and gashes the pursuit with cuts and speeeeed. Alize might have a target or two sitting down in the middle of the defense to keep the Temple LB's from being too aggressive, as well.
The defense will give up a score to start the game (duh), but that will mostly be because Temple's below-average QB is juiced up and makes some nice throws, and actually uses his mobility, which he hasn't really done that much to this point. Their RB has good speed, so he might gash an aggressive ND front-7 if the cut-back lanes open up.
After that, Temple's QB comes back down to earth, and ND's defense is able to make some plays. The ND offense will get bogged down at some point, maybe early, but then the Irish leave no doubt in the third quarter as they take a 35-10 lead. Wimbush will throw a bomb to ESB for a score in the 4th, but Temple will add a TD and a field goal to make the score seem more respectable than the blowout it actually became.
ND comes out clicking on offense immediately in primetime against an undefeated Temple squad. No way they can come out flat against a team that's 7-0, right?
Temple's LB's are good and aggressive, so CJ runs the stretch play a few times on the opening drive and gashes the pursuit with cuts and speeeeed. Alize might have a target or two sitting down in the middle of the defense to keep the Temple LB's from being too aggressive, as well.
The defense will give up a score to start the game (duh), but that will mostly be because Temple's below-average QB is juiced up and makes some nice throws, and actually uses his mobility, which he hasn't really done that much to this point. Their RB has good speed, so he might gash an aggressive ND front-7 if the cut-back lanes open up.
After that, Temple's QB comes back down to earth, and ND's defense is able to make some plays. The ND offense will get bogged down at some point, maybe early, but then the Irish leave no doubt in the third quarter as they take a 35-10 lead. Wimbush will throw a bomb to ESB for a score in the 4th, but Temple will add a TD and a field goal to make the score seem more respectable than the blowout it actually became.
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IRISH 44-23. We put a big number up on UMASS and Temple only beat them by 2. I think we are a better team since that game. The defense has been better in the 2nd half of games. I think that the bye week hurts temple opur guys have fresh legs and i could see this turning in to a Umass type game.
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Temple is a paper tiger.
Beat a pathetic Penn State team by 17 in the opener. The PSU offensive line was in disarray and Hackenberg could not stay off his back the entire game. Is it because Temple is great on defense or because the Lions didn't have any roar?
Beat a middle of the pack Cincinnati squad by 8.
Barely beat Massachusetts by 2 -- a team that ND took to the woodshed, giving the Irish more than a quarter to see what the freshmen could do. The freshmen could have won the game by themselves.
I was unaware that Charlotte even had a team.
Spanked Tulane, as they should have, because they are Tulane.
Beat bottom half UCF team by two TDs.
Yet another meh team -- East Carolina. Temple won by 10.
Now that the Owls are set to play a real team loaded with talent, how will they perform?
I say ND will smack them in the mouth early and often and expose this Temple team as a team who has had the benefit of a really weak schedule. ND should win this game by at least two TDs because the freshmen will play the fourth quarter to keep the score respectable.
Temple is good .... for Temple ... but they are nowhere near as good as the Irish.
ND 38-Temple 13.
Beat a pathetic Penn State team by 17 in the opener. The PSU offensive line was in disarray and Hackenberg could not stay off his back the entire game. Is it because Temple is great on defense or because the Lions didn't have any roar?
Beat a middle of the pack Cincinnati squad by 8.
Barely beat Massachusetts by 2 -- a team that ND took to the woodshed, giving the Irish more than a quarter to see what the freshmen could do. The freshmen could have won the game by themselves.
I was unaware that Charlotte even had a team.
Spanked Tulane, as they should have, because they are Tulane.
Beat bottom half UCF team by two TDs.
Yet another meh team -- East Carolina. Temple won by 10.
Now that the Owls are set to play a real team loaded with talent, how will they perform?
I say ND will smack them in the mouth early and often and expose this Temple team as a team who has had the benefit of a really weak schedule. ND should win this game by at least two TDs because the freshmen will play the fourth quarter to keep the score respectable.
Temple is good .... for Temple ... but they are nowhere near as good as the Irish.
ND 38-Temple 13.
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If all goes well for Temple they could have 6 Super Bowls in one season. PSU, ND, Memphis, AAC West Champ, national semi-final, NC game. It's mathematically possible.
But alas...
The Irish offense FINALLY comes out of the gate on fire and plays that way until it's milk the clock time in the 4th. This Saturday, the Irish will establish the run because of the pass. Kizer will stand back there like Brady behind a dominant O Line and throw the ball all over the field. Once that happens, CJP will be unstoppable. If the Irish would have played Clemson this week, they'd have beaten them by two TD's... at their place... in a Cat 5 Hurricane.
Now the important part which I can't predict. How will the D play? The offense will do it's thing but can the D hold them to 13 or under? Wish I could say yes. The Irish need to make a blowout statement. This game, Pitt and Stanford are all chances against (hopefully still) ranked opponents on the road. The voter's eye test will require a convincing win at Temple, a solid win at Pitt and a victory at the Farm. Luckily for ND these games are on the road and they get extra points for that, because they will need them.
So back to this game... It's all on BVG and his defensive leaders... not to win but to look like a final 4 team in the process. It seems championship teams have turning point plays during every run. KVR's NFL level interception against SC might be that play. I just got the feeling that ND's D was afraid of getting beat by every team that could pass it, you can't play afraid. Maybe that's the play that lets everyone know the back end is ready to be who we thought they were
Irish 44-17
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ThePiombino
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I got them (ND) at -17
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ND wins 42 - 28.
We just beat a very talented USC team, and had a bye week. coaches will have the team prepared and ready to play. No way Temple has the talent to stay with us for 4 quarters.
We just beat a very talented USC team, and had a bye week. coaches will have the team prepared and ready to play. No way Temple has the talent to stay with us for 4 quarters.
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Does ND cover for the 7th time in 8 games? Sure seems like it on the surface. The 10.5 line is a stinky one because it leaves you open to a backdoor cover (i.e. up 17 points with a couple minutes to play and backups in and you give up a TD).
Let's consider Temple's offense relative to two other ND opponents... USC and UMASS. Contrasted to USC, who has a top 10 offense, Temple checks in at 85th by both FEI and S&P... looked at another way, does Temple have a single player that would start for USC? Notre Dame should win consistently at the line of scrimmage, and it'd be shocking if Temple was able to score in any way except 1) deception 2) mistakes. We saw both of those against UMASS, which lead to a less-than-comfortable halftime score against an inferior opponent. If Notre Dame can play a complete game, it's hard to see Temple getting north of 21 points in any circumstance.
Now consider defense... Temple ranks 6th in S&P, and 30th in FEI. Notre Dame ranks 36th/37th in both. Why is Temple regarded as such a good defensive team by some metrics? Well, the crux is that they're a really good team statistically. But their opponents have been such garbage that when DFEI really weights that heavily it drops them wayyyyy down the scale. In short, no one has any idea how Temple will perform against a remotely talented offense, because every team they've played is utter trash.
So if you're grading on a relative scale... ND would get an A for offense, and Temple would get a D. Temple would get a B+ for defense and ND would get a B-. I bet if you parsed out everything in some sort of statistical projection (which I'm sure someone will do closer to kickoff), ND would be expected to win by about 14-17 points. I think ND fans are expecting at least a 14 point victory. Even accounting for being on the road and Temple's A+ effort it's hard to see ND losing this game... and more likely than not, the team will turn in its best defensive performance since Texas en route to a big win.
Let's consider Temple's offense relative to two other ND opponents... USC and UMASS. Contrasted to USC, who has a top 10 offense, Temple checks in at 85th by both FEI and S&P... looked at another way, does Temple have a single player that would start for USC? Notre Dame should win consistently at the line of scrimmage, and it'd be shocking if Temple was able to score in any way except 1) deception 2) mistakes. We saw both of those against UMASS, which lead to a less-than-comfortable halftime score against an inferior opponent. If Notre Dame can play a complete game, it's hard to see Temple getting north of 21 points in any circumstance.
Now consider defense... Temple ranks 6th in S&P, and 30th in FEI. Notre Dame ranks 36th/37th in both. Why is Temple regarded as such a good defensive team by some metrics? Well, the crux is that they're a really good team statistically. But their opponents have been such garbage that when DFEI really weights that heavily it drops them wayyyyy down the scale. In short, no one has any idea how Temple will perform against a remotely talented offense, because every team they've played is utter trash.
So if you're grading on a relative scale... ND would get an A for offense, and Temple would get a D. Temple would get a B+ for defense and ND would get a B-. I bet if you parsed out everything in some sort of statistical projection (which I'm sure someone will do closer to kickoff), ND would be expected to win by about 14-17 points. I think ND fans are expecting at least a 14 point victory. Even accounting for being on the road and Temple's A+ effort it's hard to see ND losing this game... and more likely than not, the team will turn in its best defensive performance since Texas en route to a big win.
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ND 48
Temple 17
Temple's touchdowns are both on trick plays. Other than those plays the ND defense plays a really good game. The FG is against our second string defense.
The ND offense comes out on fire right away. We see that RB curl pass that we saw against Clemson very early and Will Fuller torches them deep a couple of times. DK has his biggest passing day of the year.
This is a fun one to watch.
Temple 17
Temple's touchdowns are both on trick plays. Other than those plays the ND defense plays a really good game. The FG is against our second string defense.
The ND offense comes out on fire right away. We see that RB curl pass that we saw against Clemson very early and Will Fuller torches them deep a couple of times. DK has his biggest passing day of the year.
This is a fun one to watch.
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I'm not impressed at all with Temple but in their defense they've held every single opponent outside UCF under their average score on the season and often by a wide margin:
Held East Carolina to 14 (averages 30)
Held Charlotte to 3 (averages 14)
Held UMass to 23 (averages 24.4)
Held UCF to 16 (averages 15)
Held Cincinnati to 26 (averages 36.6)
Held Penn St. to 10 (averages 24)
Held Tulane to 10 (averages 18.7)
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I'm going with 31-17. I think the offense will start sluggish as Temple does have a pretty good D and I expect them to force Kizer to beat them early. He struggles early but keeps his composure to have a very good second half. Overall, I'm not impressed with Temple's O and we won't be on saturday either. However, they have some athletes that will make some big plays, as we've seen from almost every O we've faced this year, and that results in 2 td's. The D bounces back after those big plays to shut them down for the most part of the second half.
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Boldest prediction I've made all year and I'm usually wrong but I expect an offensive explosion. Prosise will be healed from various knicks and bruises, Fuller will feel good and the rest of our guys will be ready.
Alize scores his first TD, three different receivers score TDs and Prosise puts the double century up.
Defensively we force 3+ TOs.
Alize scores his first TD, three different receivers score TDs and Prosise puts the double century up.
Defensively we force 3+ TOs.
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I can see this but I am starting to really believe in CBK. I think they may start slow but it will end up being somewhat of a blowout in the end.
43-24 Irish