Deion Sanders is Donald Trump of College Football - Desmond Howard: Colorado will beat North Dakota

2.0 the Buffalo host the Bison of North Dakota State now North Dakota state is not your average FCS team they are 9 and4 against FBS opponents all time including winning six of their last seven all right we are in for a treat we got ESP betting analyst Joe foron ball joining us now yep yep for all the everyone up in the back thank you yep yep there's no one there's one all right Joe back to back to the back to Colorado um should they be on upset alert they should but this is one of the most interesting games from a Vegas perspective based on what we've seen in the last 24 hours Colorado opens is a 10-point favorite pretty important number in betting because of the differential and how games land on that differential 40 to 30 277 2414 right it's a common differential so you want to be on the right side of 10 yesterday it gets bet down to nine interesting we start to see dog money and then today across the board in Vegas and I reached out to multiple bookmakers on this nothing but Colorado money from professional betters pushed it all the way to 10 and a half and 11 so the pros like Colorado I lean a little bit to North Dakota State I'll take the points I think there's a tax you pay on Dion Because of how popular he is and this North Dakota State team I think is ready to play rule number one week one of the Season you don't want to play someone with Dakota in their no no you absolutely don't and and also too you know you dive into that the noise too and we we've been hearing you know there's a lot of headlines not necessarily the right kind of headlines you want leading into this matchup how does that affect a team going into this game well Trev now we were talking about this before and you were talking about the idea that Dion it seems as if coach Prime actually loves that it's almost this us against the world mentality last year their game against TCU I was at the game I was on the sideline actually on Coach Prime sideline in their locker room and mind you the TCU fans were loud they were excited but it was this mentality of I don't care if anyone else believes but if you were in this locker room if you were on this team if you have on our colors you got to believe and mind you worked week one week 2 week three and Travis Hunter got injured and then it started to go downhill and so I am actually excited about what I'm hearing from coach Prime because the outside noise doesn't matter it's what matters is what happens on the inside yeah and you know what what noise really needs to get tamped down is the noise of getting hit in the head from shador Sanders last year he was sacked 52 times and that doesn't include hits and then finally he missed the last couple of games with a with a back injury and the thing is this year I would like to see him go do better at going immediately to his emergency Plan B in other words protect himself last year he had to hold on of the ball a lot because he was trying to make a play and sometimes he didn't even have time A lot of his sacks I watched every one of them looked like that he was just swarm so fast that he couldn't get the ball out but there were other times when the emergency Plan B was there and he still tried to make a play now he can throw this thing away right now just get rid of it instead he takes this that's how you end up injuring your back and missing the last couple of games so that's one emergency Plan B you can just throw it away here's a another one where there's a running back wide open and if things break down he can just throw it out there now watch the quarterback as the pocket starts to break down he could just flick it out to the right immediately instead he's trying to escape he's looking for a way to make an even bigger play and even with all those hits and all those sacks he was magnificent last year he completed 69% of his passes he only threw three interceptions but this year I think they'll have better protection and for goodness sake I hope that he protects him a little better well speaking of protection I'm looking at the other side of the ball North Dakota State quarterback Kim Miller leads the FCS in completion percentage and it's not just that the quarterback position this is a physical football team you're going to see a lot of they call it 23 Personnel two running backs and three tight ends and then you're going to see them going empty you're going to see extra o linemen and so what I expect from North to go to state is for them to be physical against this Colorado defense so you got to protect yourself offensively from a quarterback position but defensively you have to be extremely better when it comes to alignment assign and technique we've talked about it before how will you align when there's an unbalanced formation we saw North Dakota state do that last year how are you align where there's an extra tackle instead of a tight end how will you and that's their back and that's their backup quarterback who's who they call him their mini Tim TBO 230 lbs so this is going to be a physical football game yes offense got to protect shadur but defense got to be ready all right well there are three ranked matchups on the week ones late and starting with the number 14 Clemson versus number one Georgia Saturday at noon now Georgia has won 10 straight or openers but their last loss was against Clemson plus we've got number seven Notre Dame visits number 20 Texas A&M later that night and on Sunday night number 23 USC faces number 13 LSU in Vegas but Joe let's go into this Georgia Clemson matchup all right so Georgia a big favorite yeah but dealing with some off the- field issues so Joe what's the spread going into this one a bit of a holding pattern with this game because we're waiting to see what Kirby Smart's going to say with some of the players who could be facing suspensions right we saw Georgia as high asus4 some Clemson money comes in knocks it down to 132 13 that's where it is now not a significant move but one worth noting but again what are the suspensions going to be couple backup players on the defensive line depth obviously always a concern you want to be able to rotate through there Trevor ATN at running back he's a starter starting inside linebacker as well one thing I was considering in this day and age when we see these suspensions what are they generally right first half suspension then we want to see it back on the field kind of serving both Masters there we're going to punish but we still need you to play a little bit so Clemson's plus s and a half in the first half can Kate kumnick and the Tigers come out hang within a touchdown in the opening 30 minutes I think so that's a way I would attack it all right Sam what about you well I'm more interested in on the other side of the ball so Clemson may be down some defensive starters as well their two starting quarterbacks may not play and I've been thinking okay georg's got to run the ball run the ball but what if Georgia said you know we got Carson Beck he's a Heisman he's in the Heisman Trophy conversation let's actually air it out against a young defensive backfield young Corners now mind you they had four Clemson had Four Freshman Corners last year who played well but it's not going to be them it's going to be the guys on the interior it's going to be Peter woods and Barrett Carter bar Carter number zero could have went to the NFL last year I got a chance to top the Clemson's team last year this dude is an elite level athlete like he's all over the field you see him in the back field sacking quarterbacks getting interceptions you'll see him running sideline to sideline and then on the interior Peter Woods he's also this younger type of player but I think about this Clemson team I think some of those younger guys at least the more exper experienced guys have to step up for the younger guys yeah but they still need to score don't they and the thing is Clemson is not going to bully Georgia's defense they need to go over them and around them and this is where I'm looking at the receiving CT when Clemson has been at its best in recent years they've had receivers like T Higgins and Justin Ross going up and just winning 5050 balls left and right they haven't had that to that extent in recent years and the quarterback production has suffered in part because of that well this year they've got a couple of of outstanding promising young receivers in TJ Moore and Bryant Wesco to go along with Antonio Williams Williams was injured for most of last year but reports are that he has been explosive in Camp it's those Clemson receivers that will carry this team to the the highest levels not just the defense shifting to another really notable matchup the line has been on the Move in this Notre Dame Texas A&M game and it opened as a pick them and Notre Dame favored slightly on the money line now Texas A&M is a 3o favorite Joe can you help uh explain what the line has been doing in this game this is big this happened about a week ago Notre Dame announced their starting left tackle was going to be out for the season if there's a weakness with one of the deepest Notre Dame teams in like 25 years it might be on the offensive line so as a result money starts to come in on Texas A&M people see this they pile on they steam it all the way up to three three is a very important number in sports betting very important more games end on a differential of three than any other number 2421 2724 it's about 15% of games you want to be on the right side of three if you have the opportunity now that Notre Dame's plus three I think that's where the opportunity is on the Irish again very deep team Riley Leonard comes over at quarterback from duke they upgraded the wide receiver unit here Den Brock as the offensive coordinator coming over from LSU huge we saw what he did with that offense last year going into college station Saturday night is problematic but if you're going to give me three I think eventually this line comes back down I would take three with the Irish right here well speaking of problematic we we started this discussion yesterday about the noise at colge station and the fact that there's been practices Fromm fans to be as loud as they can be but Sam I want to talk to you about the preparation Notre Dame has to do to prepare for that noise because it's a whole different ball game out in the field well what happens is they'll have these huge speakers I mean it looks like it they'll roll the things out there I don't know how many 10t tall huge speakers and they'll be blaring sound for the entirety of practice that's in order to imitate what you're going to hear I mean you got like have an ifb in right I try to imitate the 100 plus thousand that are at cyle field that every at Friday nights they they do midnight Yale practice meaning they sing their fight song they talk about song VAR varsity's horns off they talk about um there just what it means to be an Aggie and so there's so much power in that 12thman is what that's what they call it and I think that's going to be a huge differentiator in this game yeah and for those new offensive tackles left and right it's a problem because you can't hear the snap count and that means that the defensive pass rusher is going to get off the ball quicker than you will right that's a huge problem and so let me show you one of the things they do if I'm the left tackle maybe I'll look into at the ball and when the ball moves then I'll look out here problem if I'm looking in here I can't see his first step and what he's doing plus he's better and quicker at getting off on the ball than I am I'm still late another way to do it is this you're the guard right grab my hand so now when you could see the ball better than me I know a lot of love here and so when now I can look at the defensive end and when you see the ball snapped you move and now I go the problem is you see the ball snap and then you move and physiologically it 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