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Football Place Your Bets results: Notre Dame 27, Penn State 24

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Tyler James said:
It's time for Game 15 of Place Your Bets for the 2024 season. We're making prop bets for Notre Dame's College Football Playoff semifinal matchup with Penn State in the Orange Bowl.

ICYMI: Subscribers can compete individually in Place Your Bets for a chance to win free subscription months to Inside ND Sports. The top subscriber will get a year's subscription for free. The second-place subscriber will get six free months.

Instructions are included in the thread linked here and in the Google Form linked below.

@Eric Hansen and I share our weekly picks the day before every game this season. I will share the results next week in this thread and we’ll have an updated standings thread throughout the season.

Here are the Game 15 prop bets for Notre Dame-Penn State. Voting is open now and closes at kickoff on Thursday (7:30 p.m. EST on ESPN).

• More rushing yards: Notre Dame or Penn State?
• Over/Under 50.5 rushing yards for Notre Dame QB Riley Leonard
• Will Penn State TE Tyler Warren catch a touchdown pass?
• Over/Under 185.5 passing yards for Penn State QB Drew Allar
• More sacks: Notre Dame or Penn State?

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Football Podcast: Tom Zbikowski on why this Notre Dame team has captured his heart

Tyler James
Former Notre Dame safety Tom Zbikowski (2003-07), who is the safeties coach at Brown, discusses what it means to him to see Notre Dame back in the national championship conversation, what he remembers about playing Penn State in 2007, how a coach emphasizes special teams, how to defend Penn State tight end Tyler Warren, how physical safeties make a defense better, what he thinks of Xavier Watts, how culture is instilled in a program, his respect for quarterback Riley Leonard, what head coach Marcus Freeman's aggressiveness does for the team, what he's learned as a college football coach, his most important lessons as a college athlete, his relationship with Jeff Samardzija and more.

Then @Eric Hansen and I answer questions from X/Twitter and The Insider Lounge (24:36).


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Best LB group in ND history

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banmate6 said:
Such hypotheticals are fun. But I agree you really cannot compare eras. The only thing I will say with some conviction...in the modern era you minimally have to be a top athlete. Back in the day, you could compensate for some lack of speed, agility, and strength with sports IQ and team schema.

Some argue what if players back then had modern sport science. Yes, the top athletes would realize gains. But not the marginal athletes.

One more point: not every top player today would hang in the conditions of yesteryear. Some top players today are more athletic due to sports science they wouldn't have back then. I also think the game meted out more punishment back then, where some today wouldn't hang.

If you magically transported a peak 1970 vs peak 2024 team, the latter would easily win. But if you transport each to the era of the other with 1 year to practice and play as the other...the verdict is out.
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That was very well thought out
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RJ Oben

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Graded at 91.2 in the 2nd round of CFP.

He was the highest graded Edge vs anyone else who played in the tourney.

Good for him. Would love to see him play that well again vs PSU. Does anyone have insight to the strengths of PSU OL? How does it match up vs our DL.

Also....Moore was the highest graded DB. Adon was the highest graded Safety

Awesome to see guys step up at the right time.
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Penn St

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How are we feeling about this? they have 2 good running backs, a star tight end. I think Allar is good ( nothing spectacular). The defense is solid. Abdul even if he plays seems like it won’t be at 100, and could be a distraction. Idk, I saw most of their game at USC and at Minny, they seem like a solid top 10 team, but I feel like they will have their hands full with our athleticism on defense, and we should be able to hit more passes on their defense.
I have ND 27 Psu 20
Go Irish!
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Respect for Marcus Freeman

tbonesays
IrishMike409 said:
I can't tell if you're an idiot or just trolling.

So you want deep completions? That's what would make us a "full good team"?

We've had few "deep completions" all year.

Yet we're 13-1, and have beaten ranked teams in every month of the season.
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I can't tell if you are either. If you want to be the best then you have to throw the football. It's not 1988 anymore.
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Lets talk PSU

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IrishMike409 said:
I would agree. I think Penn State is gonna be tough and certainly formidable. But I don't they're better than Georgia. Maybe equal, but not better.
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After a long season, noting we all say it takes a season...and there is still some season left...then one can make clearer judgements.

By now I think ND, GA, Texas, and PSU are evenly enough matched. Ohio State playing at this level is the only clear favorite. Again, I still think ND is built to upset Ohio State.

I really really hope ND gets past PSU. I predict a dogfight...and I'd be lying if I the near 2 day rest for PSU and ND injuries don't worry me.

But I'd also be lying if I didn't say the magic of ND gives me some confidence.

Let's see. Thursday is almost here!
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How much money did ND save extending MF before he beat Georgia and made it to the final 4 ?

chaseball
chaseball said:
I like the way you are talking you are starting to speak my language

Anyway, to answer your question: you have to consider the impact small sample size and luck still have on the outcome of a single game

You sound like someone who can start profiting off some bets-- it's illegal in my state so I hope someone profits from this knowledge.

All I ask is that you buy me some hookers and blow if you win a lot of money and are ever in Cascadia 😁😆🤣
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To add ...

When I talk about small sample size what im referring to is that sometimes way less skilled teams can mask just how far less skilled they are in a single head to head match but the skill will eventually rise to the top as the sample size gets larger.

This is why in other sports they play multiple games in a series to expand the sample size and allow the truly best of the two teams to rise to the top.

In football there is no series it's only one do or die game and because of that it adds a lot of unpredictability/variability to the outcome of the game regardless of how much better/skilled one team may be than the other which is also why I don't bet on football (essentially it's too unpredictable)
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How much money did ND save extending MF before he beat Georgia and made it to the final 4 ?

chaseball
NDinNJ said:
Then explain Texas barely scraping by ASU. Texas has an enormous talent and production advantage. More of an advantage than OSU does over ND. So how could ASU take Texas to OT? If not for a missed targeting call ASU beats Texas.
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I like the way you are talking you are starting to speak my language

Anyway, to answer your question: you have to consider the impact small sample size and luck still have on the outcome of a single game

You sound like someone who can start profiting off some bets-- it's illegal in my state so I hope someone profits from this knowledge.

All I ask is that you buy me some hookers and blow if you win a lot of money and are ever in Cascadia 😁😆🤣
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Does This Short Week Hurt the Irish?

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sjb75 said:
Playing 13 games as opposed to 12.... playing Oregon on December 7 for the Big 10 title, matters as well. At least mention it in fairness. Playing conference title games... and getting beat... matters.
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No doubt. You're right, it's a fair take.

I'm just concerned those 3 days in NOLA took a ton out of us. ND is gonna be absolutely tested physically and mentally and emotionally on Thursday.
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