#209/210 ASA PLAY ON Under 47.5 Points – Notre Dame vs Texas A&M, Saturday at 7:30 PM ET - Defenses should dominate here especially in the trenches. Notre Dame and A&M have veteran defensive lines and the weak spot of each opposing offense in on the line. Notre Dame is banged up on the offensive line and will not start a single upper classmen. Two freshmen will start on the left side of the line and the total number of career college starts for this group is less than 10! They are facing a veteran A&M defensive line that most have ranked in the top 5 nationally. New Irish QB Leonard will be running for his life on Saturday and we don’t see any help from Notre Dame’s rushing attack. Last year’s leading rusher Estime (1,300 yards) is gone and his “green” offensive line will be facing a defense that finished in the top 15 in rushing YPG and YPC allowed. On the other side, A&M’s offense will also have problems here vs an Irish defense we have rated in the top 10 entering the season. They also have a top 10 defensive line facing an Aggie offensive front that struggled last season and has 3 new starters this year. A&M starting QB Wiegman was injured early last season and has only started 8 games in his career. Both offenses have new OC’s so each are implementing a new system which can take some time to perfect. The head coaches in this game, Elko for A&M and Freeman for ND, are both defensive minded. From camp reports both defenses are well ahead of the offenses coming into this game and we look for low scoring, grinder here. Take the Under.