Saturday, February 4th, 2012
The East Carolina Pirates from Conference USA will face the North Carolina Tar Heels from the ACC Conference in a college football game on Saturday afternoon. Kick off time in Chapel Hill North Carolina is set for 12PM Eastern Time with national television coverage provided by ESPN2. The LVSC college football odds makers have set the opening line in this game and the home team North Carolina Tar Heels were opened as 10-point favorites. The early money has come in on the underdog, as the North Carolina Tar Heels are currently 7-point favorites. Total bettors can make a play on the over under at the current line of 42. College football money line bettors can make a play on the North Carolina Tar Heels at –270 with the underdog East Carolina Pirates bringing back +230 to win straight up without the points.
North Carolina survived a scare at Connecticut last week pulling out a 12-10 win on the road. Junior quarterback T.J. Yates is coming off a 23-32 performance for 233 yards a touchdown and interception last week. North Carolina needs to better their running game behind their mammoth offensive line as the team is only averaging 3.6 yards per rushing attempt. North Carolina is playing very well on defense allowing opponents just 51 yards per game on the ground and 123 through the air. The team must clean its offense as they are averaging whopping 3 turnovers per game. East Carolina is coming off a 35-20 defeat at West Virginia last week. The Pirates were ripped for 335 passing yards last week to West Virginia. East Carolina quarterback Patrick Pinkney is off to a slow start hitting on just 42% of his passes with 2 touchdowns and 3 interceptions. East Carolina was poor on the ground at West Virginia last week averaging just 2.3 yards per rush on 27 attempts a week ago. East Carolina will be up against it against the huge defensive line of North Carolina and will need its passing game to wake up if they are to pull off the upset on Saturday.
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CFB Trend: East Carolina is 1-8 ATS in their past 9 road games
The Wagerline consensus has 69.4% of the CFB bettors on North Carolina -7
The Wagerline consensus has 53.8% of the CFB bettors playing over 42
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