ASA PLAY ON 8* Louisville Cardinals (+) over Virginia Tech Hokies, Saturday at 4:00 PM ET: Game #122

Louisville did lose at home to Miami this season but the Hurricanes only loss this season was to Clemson so the 5-1 Canes are having quite a season. The point is that the Cardinals can be a tough team at home and they have proven that with their other two games seeing them prevail by a combined score of 83 to 37 which includes last week thrashing of Florida State. We like taking teams in back to back home games when they are off a dominating win and building confidence. This is a Louisville team on the rise under coach Scott Satterfield who is now in his 2nd season here. Satterfield went 40-11 in his last 4 seasons with Appalachian State before coming to Louisville. Though the Cards are a tough 2-4 this season they easily covered at Notre Dame when they lost by just 5 as a 15.5 dog and also lost by just 3 in a tough road game at Pittsburgh. Considering those tight losses and the fact the Cardinals are off a big confidence-boosting win you can see why we like having them as a home dog in this spot. Louisville gained 569 yards of offense last week and only had to punt twice and now they host a Hokies team that is 0-3 ATS in road games this season! This is a back to back road situation for Virginia Tech for the 2nd time this season. How did the first one go? In the 2nd game of the back to back the Hokies allowed 56 points in a loss at North Carolina! Per our computer math model, Virginia Tech is going to drop to 4-12 ATS the last 16 times they have been a road favorite. This is a great spot for the home dog so we're grabbing the points in this Saturday afternoon ACC match-up.