The three remaining teams all find themselves in different predicaments.

Army continues to rebuild as it brings in a new head coach.

Navy looks to continue its winning ways and run all over opponents in their usual, triple-option fashion, albeit with the potential for a little more passing this year.

Notre Dame, in the fifth year of the Charlie Weis era, is expected to rise to the ranks of the Top 25 and beyond as pressure starts to build around South Bend to produce another BCS-caliber team.

The Fighting Irish are even making waves with Bodog as the team is listed at +2500 to win it all this year.

It helps that the Irish will be playing many schools who will either be down in 2009, or coming down from a successful 2008 season.

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Villanova (23-6 SU, 14-11 ATS) is having a much better season in the Big East, but the Wildcats are also coming off a loss, courtesy of the Georgetown Hoyas. Georgetown went into the Wachovia Center on Saturday and left with a 56-54 victory as a 6.5-point puppy. The ‘Cats are 1-4 ATS in their last five; Villanova supporters will take heart that their team is 11-6 ATS in games after holding opponents under 75 points. Get your NCAA basketball betting today.

Brey is 240-128 lifetime in stints at Maryland and Notre Dame, and he’s the reigning two-time Big East Coach of the Year, but there won’t be a third in 2009. True, the Irish have won four of their last five to inch closer to the NCAA Tournament bubble, but getting in would be a travesty of justice. Notre Dame was 2-3 ATS during that span, coughing up the cash at home to USF (+13.5) and Rutgers (+14).

The Huskies (-2) beat Notre Dame 69-61 last month in South Bend. The Irish defense gets even worse on the road, where the over is a tasty 7-3.

For Notre Dame to win they must keep Luke Harangody out of foul trouble. Harangody had his 10th consecutive 20-point game and eighth straight double-double as he scored 25 points with 16 rebounds last Saturday against Syracuse.

Notre Dame is one of the few teams that can match up with UConn in both the backcourt and the frontcourt. A.J. Price and Jerome Dyson take on Kyle McAlarney and Tony Jackson in the fight to control the tempo. If the Huskies win the tempo battle they have a great shot at pulling off the road upset.

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Jimmy Clausen hasn’t thrown a touchdown pass in two games, but has 18 for the season and has done a better job of getting the ball downfield this season. He won’t have injured freshman standout WR Michael Floyd this week, though. Floyd suffered a sprained knee last week against Navy and will miss the final two games of the regular season.

With Greg Robinson’s coaching career at Syracuse down to two games, it will be interesting to see how the effort and energy of the Orange translates to the field. Bet on college football in the Bodog Sportsbook now.

This week’s opponent is not nearly as good as the Spartans. The Purdue Boilermakers (2-1 SU, 1-1 ATS) lost to Oregon in overtime and struggled mightily to beat Central Michigan. Now they make the short trip to Notre Dame Stadium as a pick’em versus the Irish on what should be a beautiful Saturday afternoon. NBC has the national coverage.

The major weaknesses of these two teams cancel out: Notre Dame’s running game and Purdue’s run defense. But the Boilers’ pass defense is also not very good: No. 90 in the FBS at 234.7 yards per game. That’ll give QB Jimmy Clausen (six TDs, six INTs) the room he needs to get the win for the home team. Get all your NCAA College Football Odds in the Bodog Sportsbook today!

A whole lot of Javon Ringer. The Spartans have 12 touchdowns this year, nine of them via Ringer on the ground. Notre Dame is ranked No. 77 in the FBS with 4.04 yards allowed per carry. That’s not a good matchup for the Irish, who are 8.5-point road dogs as a result.

The Spartans are only 6-15 ATS in their last 21 at home, but their more recent history of giving Ringer the ball is a lot more important to Saturday’s matchup. It minimizes those costly turnovers; they have four on the season compared to six for Notre Dame. I like MSU by double digits.

Well, that's all spiraling out of control.

Thanks to pictures posted on The Big Lead the QB could face disciplinary action for underage drinking. Shown competing in what are being called "The Beer Olympics," Clausen could be faced with his second alcohol-related incident while at the school. In 2007, he was changed with transporting alcohol as a minor.

From the Chicago Tribune:

A Notre Dame football spokesman said Monday there was no comment from the team for the time being. But du Lac, the school's guidebook for personal conduct, says that underage drinking and/or the participation in drinking games is cause for potential disciplinary action..

A reminder to all you high-profile collegiate athletes out there: stay away from anybody wielding a camera phone.

How will these allegations and pictures affect the upcoming Notre Dame football season? As it stands, Clausen currently sits at 80/1 to win the 2008 Heisman Trophy – get all your college football player props in the Bodog Sportsbook today!

Luke Harangody led Notre Dame over George Mason. (AP Images)

Many pundits figured that No. 12 George Mason was a great sleeper pick for March Madness. After all, the Patriots were just two years removed from their shock Final Four appearance; they also had two seniors who were role players on the 2006 team.

Those prognosticators were silenced on Thursday night as No. 5 Notre Dame rolled to a comprehensive 68-50 victory.

Mason had few solutions for the human porcupine Luke Harangody. The big ND bruiser racked up 18 points and 14 rebounds, basically dominating a smallish Patriots team in the paint. ND was never really challenged in this game, getting out to a 33-21 halftime lead and then containing the Patriots for most of the second.

George Mason senior forward Will Thomas had a great final game in Gold and Green. He led the team in several statistical categories putting up 25 points, seven rebounds and three assists.

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Marquette held Notre Dame's Luke Harangody to just 13 points on Thursday night. (AP Images)

Although oddsmakers expected a close matchup, you can officially chalk up another upset for the Big East tourney as Marquette defeated Notre Dame 89-79.

The odds closed with Marquette as the one-point favorite over Notre Dame and it looks like the books were right. The Fighting Irish led by six after the first half but Marquette came out blazing in the second, dropping 57 points.

Guard Jered McNeal led the Golden Eagles with 28 points and six rebounds, while the Marquette defense was able to keep Notre Dame's leading scorer Luke Harangody to just 13. Well off his 21-point average.

Marquette reaches the Big East semi-finals for the first time in school history.

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