hi it's Mitch from piic dogs.com here with your free pick in the Texas A&M versus Notre Dame college football matchup on Saturday August 31st 20124 it's my favorite day of the week during my favorite time of the year it's College Football Saturday if you like all the free picks we do at pic dogs you'll love our premium picks our Best Bets just go to piic dogs.com click on the premium picks tab I've also got a link directly below this video in the description if you make bigger bets like a th000 or more per game $10,000 plus bank roll looking for VIP packages long-term pack packages that's all we have for VIP well we have those as well just text the number you see on the screen our regular premium picks we have daily packages all the way up to long-term Packers I bet mine every day VIP only longterm and for really big betters but let's get to it Texas A&M taking on Notre Dame big game on Saturday night into in week one college football actually kind of the feature game of the nighttime games and uh you know the agies come in with pretty high expectation Mike Elco taking over as head coach he was the defense coordinator at Texas A&M few years back and you know left for Duke where he had a lot of success there again with Notre AED quarterback ironically Riley Leonard you know running the show there for him but Elco had success even without Riley Leonard and he had success with the rest of his Duke team it wasn't a oneman show by any stretch of the imagination but it was a program that he helped turn around but the thing is is turning it around at a program like Duke making a program like Duke competitive a lot different than going into college station and Auto automatically just building a winner um a team that can beat the the good teams in a conference like the SEC it is definitely going to be a challenge for Elco and why he has a lot of Talent on this Texas stum roster I always say I believe it when I see it meanwhile Marcus Freeman on the other side of it for Notre Dame he hasn't really won a ton of big games in his tenure here as Notre Dame as the head coach of course the players absolutely love him he is a young energetic good defensive mind but still learning to head coaching trade and there was concerns when they hired Freeman there about exactly that about the you know lack of overall experience that he had but the thing is what he lacks there he does make up in recruiting you know and what he can do on that end of things and Notre Dame has a very very talented team you know I college station generally one of the tougher buildings in all of college football it always has been the yelling the the paddles the you know the whole thing the whole vibe there just tremendous in kind of what college football's all about but of course Notre aame they bring that kind of tradition as well I mean really one of the most storyed programs in college football which makes this just such a gigantic matchup for week one opening night you know with Riley Leonard taking over a quarterback for Notre Dame I do believe that is a step forward he is a he is a veteran and I think that you know that his type of game that is a scrappy style of game not afraid to tuck it down and run it not afraid to take the hit all those type of things that probably is a good thing for Notre Dame because I think he's is going to have to do all those things to win games like this I just think you know for me I like Elco the Elco higher text S&M but I always say I'll believe it when I see it I'm going to take Notre name and that's going to be my free pick of course while you're doing your picks putting your bets in be sure to use our free betting tools at sportschatplace.com 100% free and they'll help put you on the most favorable bets on the board today