Week 6: Notre Dame def. Pittsburgh, 23-17

• Leonardo

  

  Both teams need to pick up another win
  
  3:30 kickoff
• Non

  

  Notre Dame 38
  Pittsburgh 23
• killer_ewok

  

  Sunseri has struggled this season.
  
  Stop Dion Lewis and ND has a legit chance .
• believer

  

  A battle of the lame and somewhat lamer...
• slingshot4ever

  Pittsburgh by 7
• Mohican00

  

  ND in a close one at home
• dwccrew

  

  ND 35-31
• karen lotz

  

  slingshot4ever;505615 wrote:Pittsburgh by 7

  ccrunner609;506256 wrote:Pitt wins by 10

  
  Hopefully these are as accurate as your predictions for BC/ND.
• Cleveland Buck

  

  Pittsburgh is another bad team. Notre Dame should win this one too.
• sjmvsfscs08

  Pittsburgh is a tough read. They got dominated in every sense of the word by Miami, blew a game against Utah, and handled two incredibly inferior opponents. I wonder what team shows up. I'm 50/50 on the matter. I like Notre Dame's advantage in coaching, Kelly was 2-1 against the 'stache while at Cincinnati.
• athlete37

  

  Irish open up as 5.5 point favorites
• sjmvsfscs08

  ccrunner609;506447 wrote:yeah but he had good teams in Cinci

  
  Good? Yes. More talented? Absolutely not.
  
  You're 1000% correct that the players in Cincinnati had grasped his system by the time they played Pittsburgh. Crist is still having trouble at times, he either looks like he has a 200 QB rating or a 90 QB rating.
  
  Notre Dame has been pretty solid against the run, and playing Walls and safety help will eliminate their lone wide receiving threat. It basically comes down to the run game once again. Williams, Calabrese and Te'o will clog the middle no doubt. Can the DE's and OLB's win the battle up front and keep Pittsburgh's two good RB's on the ground?
• grodt

  

  Pitt is pretty one-dimensional at this point. Shut down the run game and they're in trouble.
  
  Our offense has got to be more consistent. A few good drives a game isn't going to cut it in the long run. I'll still chalk it up to the new system, but not much longer. They should be getting comfortable by now.
• Tiernan

  Can someone explain to me why in God's name this game is a "Sticky"? I mean you may as well Sticky the next EMU game for all that this game has any impact on the National scene. Sure its a nice little football game between "has beens" that the local folks and alumni may some interest in but to Sticky it is a slap in the face to all teams truly worthy of the Sticky
• sjmvsfscs08

  Don't you have the inside info on why it's a sticky?
• sherm03

  

  Tiernan;506980 wrote:Can someone explain to me why in God's name this game is a "Sticky"? I mean you may as well Sticky the next EMU game for all that this game has any impact on the National scene. Sure its a nice little football game between "has beens" that the local folks and alumni may some interest in but to Sticky it is a slap in the face to all teams truly worthy of the Sticky

  
  It's so the dumbass, douchebag trolls (like yourself) don't have to scroll too far to make a stupid, asinine, and utterly retarded post about Notre Dame that has no bearing on the game whatsoever.
  
  Looking at your post...looks like it worked.
• karen lotz

  

  It will be interesting to see the health of the offensive line. I only remembered Braxston Cave leaving the game, but I saw an interview Kelly did. He said during the 4th quarter, he had 3 backups in the game due to injury. Chris Stewart and Taylor Dever also left the game. He also said he expects all three to be healthy enough to start on Saturday so maybe it will turn out to be a blessing in disguise, getting Golic Jr, Watt, and Nuss some meaningful snaps.
• Little Danny

  

  ND has an Ace in the Hole in this one.... Dave Wannstadt is a terrible game day coach who can't win a big game. I see Pitt coming out to take a big lead at the half, only for the Irish to win it down the stretch, 35-34.
• DeyDurkie5

  

  Notre dame for me
• sjmvsfscs08

  Little Danny;507241 wrote:ND has an Ace in the Hole in this one.... Dave Wannstadt is a terrible game day coach who can't win a big game. I see Pitt coming out to take a big lead at the half, only for the Irish to win it down the stretch, 35-34.

  
  Sooo basically the Cincinnati-Pittsburgh game last year with better defenses? hahah
• Cleveland Buck

  

  Or worse offenses.
• sjmvsfscs08

  Valid point
• slingshot4ever

  karen lotz;506263 wrote:Hopefully these are as accurate as your predictions for BC/ND.

  
  Or as accurate as my predictions were for Michigan and Michigan State.....
• karen lotz

  

  I'm sure they were both Notre Dame losing by 7 right? I can predict Ohio State to lose every game by 7 from here til the end of time. Odds are I'm going to be right eventually and also be called a troll/hater. Do you have any kind of reasoning behind Pitt winning by 7 or are you able to see in the future?
• Cleveland Buck

  

  I find it hilarious that Karen is calling someone else a troll.