A drama-packed Week 1 of the 2025 college football season concludes with a third matchup between top-10 teams with No. 6 Notre Dame traveling to No. 10 Miami on Sunday night.The Irish played for the national title in their most recent game in January, while Miami narrowly missed the College Football Playoff field.ODDS AND TRENDSNotre Dame is a consensus 2.5-point favorite. That includes at BetMGM, where the Irish have drawn 73 percent of the spread-line bets and have been backed by 66 percent of the spread-line money.The moneyline action has been nearly split. The Irish (-145) have been backed by 51 percent of the bets, although the Hurricanes (+120) have drawn only 41 percent of the money.PROP PICKS–Notre Dame RB Jeremiyah Love 70+ Rushing Yards (-190 at DraftKings): This has been the second-most popular prop at the book for this game, impacted heavily by the Irish’s inexperience at quarterback. Love topped 70 rushing yards in eight games last season, but was limited by a knee injury during the CFP. He’s healthy now and the offense is likely to run through him Sunday night.–Miami QB Carson Beck 250+ Passing Yards (+104 at DraftKings): Beck is returning from a more significant injury that sidelined him from Georgia’s CFP run and ultimately led to his transfer to the Hurricanes. Miami has significant turnover at wide receiver, but that hasn’t prevented this from being the most popular prop play at the book.TALE OF TWO QBsMiami lost No. 1 overall pick Cam Ward from the 2024 team and replaced him with Beck from Georgia.Riley Leonard completed his eligibility for Notre Dame and redshirt freshman CJ Carr won a tightly contested quarterback competition with third-year sophomore Kenny Minchey.”I had to make a difficult decision, and I did,” Irish coach Marcus Freeman said of choosing Carr, who will make his first college start in the primetime matchup. “As I told both of them, ‘We’re going to need both of them this year. We’re going to need both, and they both have to be mature enough to handle that decision and understand they’re chasing their full potential.’ No matter if you’re named starting quarterback or you’re the backup quarterback, you have to continue to work.”Getting the quarterbacks up to speed is a big deal if Notre Dame wants to repeat last season’s success. The Irish went 14-2 and lost 34-23 to Ohio State in the title game.Miami (10-3) won its first nine games last season and had a headlining quarterback but was passed over as an at-large team by the CFP committee.Enter Beck, who passed for 7,426 yards and 52 touchdowns with 18 interceptions over the past two seasons for the Bulldogs.Beck said he doesn’t feel like he has to match Ward, who passed for 4,313 yards, 39 TDs and seven interceptions. He compared his current lot to stepping in as the replacement for Stetson Bennett at Georgia.”The last school I was at I followed up the two-time national champion, so I didn’t really feel any pressure there,” Beck said. “It’s a game. I’ve played football my whole life. I’ve played quarterback since I was 7 years old, and it’s something that I love to do and I’ve got a lot of good talent around.”