Pittsburgh at Notre Dame

The Notre Dame Fighting Irish lost a lot from last year, but adds one more as Tim Abromitis has been lost for the season. Pittsburgh is expected to challenge for the Big East title, but losses at home to Long beach State (who hung 86 points on them) and to Wagner call that into question. The Panthers are not the defensive tough team that they have been in the past, and are more guard-reliant than years gone by. Ashton Gibbs is scoring 17.6 points per game and hasn't shot well, so a big game from him is going to emerge very soon. Panthers have gone for 70+ in 10 games already and the Irish are allowing 76.3 points per game to the four BCS Conference teams they have faced. The Irish have only played two of their last eight to the UNDER when scoring 90+ in their previous game. Pitt is now 4-1 to the OVER when taking to the road after 3+ games at home. Play the OVER in this game.