The Temple Owls are hosting the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in college football action tonight. The game is scheduled for an 8:00 p.m. start time and it will be televised nationally on ABC. Currently the betting odds for the game have Notre Dame favored by double digits to pick up the victory.

This is the first game in Temple history where the Owls are ranked and playing a ranked team. There’s obviously a lot of history for Notre Dame in being one of the elite programs all-time in college football, but Temple is looking for their own piece of history tonight.

The Owls play a very strong game defensively, but there’s no doubt the Irish have a big-play offense that can score a lot of points. William Fuller is one of the best receivers in the country and DeShone Kizer has really improved at the quarterback position this season after being thrown into the starting role after Malik Zaire went down with a season-ending injury.

Temple will look to keep the football on the ground and be physical offensively. The Owls hand it off frequently to Jahad Thomas, a guy with over 800 yards rushing and 12 touchdowns to date. Notre Dame knows the Owls are going to want to establish a run game in order to set up any type of air attack and the Irish defense is loaded with talented players and they have a great squad on that side of the football. If Temple gets behind and has to throw the football in order to get back into the game they’re going to have a big problem.

This is the biggest game in school history for Temple, they’re playing at home and the Owls are on national television — can they make history?

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