Army vs Notre Dame 11/23/24 Game Information

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The House That Ruth Built, Yankee Stadium, is the site of this classic College Football collision between No. 6 ranked Notre Dame (9-1) and No. 16 ranked Army (9-0) in a game with huge College Football Playoff ramifications. The Black Knights head in unbeaten and will face Tulane in the American Athletic Conference Football (AAC) Championship Game in December with the winner there likely to have a shot at making the CFP, depending on what Boise State and the Fighting Irish here do down the stretch. Notre Dame has just one loss (Northern Illinois) and is currently seeded 8th in the CFP and is projected to host No. 9-seed Alabama in a First Round game. Notre Dame is an at-large Independent. Army will be hoping to beat ND in this game and then knock off the Green Wave in the AAC Championship and/or then have teams like Boise State, Indiana, or BYU slip up. It may be hard for the Black Knights to make the CFP, but they do still have an outside shot and have radar and tanks.

Army’s Potential March to Tourney Starts Here

Army (7-1-1 ATS, 5-4-0 O/U) marches in with the best ATS record in FBS and are 10-0 in its last 10 dating back to last season’s game with rivals Navy. As QB Bryson Daily goes, so goes Army, so Notre Dame will do everything it can to try to stop this dual-threat from doing what he wants on offense. Daily has passed for 644 yards and 7 TDs and thrown just 1 Interception so far and the senior signal caller has also rushed for 1,062 yards (6.1 ypc) and 21 TDs. While NFL scouts and NFL Draft experts are saying there are really only two good QBs to look at in next year’s 2025 NFL Draft (Shedeur Sanders, COL and Cam Ward, MIA), they would be doing themselves a great service to look at players like Army’s Daily (82.8 QBR), Mississippi’s Jaxson Dart (86,2 QBR), Oregon’s Dillon Gabriel (84.2 QBR), and Washington State’s John Mateer (2,707 passing yards, 26 TD, 6 Interceptions). RB Kanye Udoh (856 rushing yards, 9 TD, 6.7 ypc) and WR Casey Reynolds (317 receiving yards, 3 TD) are also having nice seasons at West Point.

Army Betting Trends

• Army has is 8-1-1 ATS in its last 10 games overall
• The Black Knights are 0-3 SU/ATS in their last 3 vs Notre Dame
• The Under is 3-0 in the last 3 meetings between these two
• Army is 5-0 ATS its last 5 games away from Home, including Neutral Sites
• The Under is 3-1 in the Black Knights last 4 games overall

Notre Dame Would Be in Jeopardy With Loss Here

Like Army, Notre Dame (8-2-0 ATS, 5-5-0 O/U) has been great against the betting number, and like the Black Knights, a loss here could be devastating, so this is truly one of the great games on a great Week 13 slate of College Football games including a Big Ten showdown between No. 2 (AP) Ohio State and No. 5 Ohio State at Columbus, No. 14 BYU at Arizona State, and Memphis at No. 20 Tulane. The Fighting Irish are led by talented QB Riley Leonard (1,789 passing yards, 12 TD, 4 Interceptions)—another guy scouts would be wise to look at—and RB Jeremiyah Love (720 rushing yards, 12 TD) and these two make up a dynamic running game with Leonard rushing for 641 yards and 13 TD in South bend. Love averages 6.3 ypc while Leonard averages 6.2, so the Black Knights defense will need to- load the box to try to stop these two players from running wild in the Bronx.

Notre Dame Betting Trends

• Notre Dame has now covered 6 straight games
• ND has allowed just 51 points in last 5 games (10.2 ppg)
• The Over is 4-2 in the last 6 Fighting Irish games
• ND is 4-0 ATS in its last 4 games on the Road (NAVY, GT, PUD, A&M) 
• The Fighting Irish are 17-4-1 ATS the last 22 (81%)

Army vs Notre Dame Pick and Prediction

The Fighting Irish are big double-digit Favorites in the game, and rightfully so, but it’s hard to recommend backing them in this Army vs Notre Dame prediction and free NCAAF pick. Army will do all it can to slow this game down, and with both teams more content to run than pass the football, you can see why there is such a low Totals number in this one. Notre Dame has allowed just 6 points in its last two games (UNT 3, AFA 3), but has only scored 34 of its own (both Unders), so managing the game and just keeping on winning seems the theme for the Fighting Irish who have eyes on a CFP appearance prize. With all 3 games played in this series since 2008 going Under and the Weather in the Bronx forecast to be Cloudy and 47° at gametime, expecting few and hard-earned points is this call.

Kevin’s Pick: Army-Notre Dame Under 44.5