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Published: November 12, 2009
The Miami Florida Hurricanes will hit the highway in ACC conference play when they face the North Carolina Tar Heels in a college football game on Saturday afternoon. Kick off time is set for 3:30PM Eastern Time with regional television coverage provided by ABC. The LVSC college football odds makers have set the opening point spread in this game and the Miami Florida Hurricanes opened as a 5-½ point favorite. The early money from the college football betting public has come in on the home team North Carolina Tar Heels, as the Miami Florida Hurricanes are currently a 3-½ point favorite. The over under is currently lined at 42 ½ for the bettors to wager into. College football money line gamblers can make a play on the favored Miami Florida Hurricanes at –155 with the home underdog North Carolina Tar Heels bringing back +135 to win without the points on their side.
When these two conference foes met last season it was North Carolina winning 28-24 as a 7-point road underdog. The Tar Heels could not run a lick on Miami but passed for 264 yards and benefited from 2 Hurricane pass interceptions. North Carolina enters this game with two straight wins coming against Duke and Virginia Tech. North Carolina has an outstanding defense limiting their opponents to average just 15.3 points per game. The Tar Heels are the #1 defense in the ACC giving up just 249 yards per game and just 3.9 yards per play against them. The Hurricanes are a good passing team and the Tar Heels have allowed just 4 passing touchdowns against their defense. Junior quarterback T.J. Yates ha completed 59% of his passes with 9 touchdowns and just 10 interceptions. Yates does not have good arm strength and will need to be very accurate against a speedy Miami defense. Running back Shaun Draughn is averaging 4.6 yards per carry this season with Ryan Houston at 4.2 yards a carry with 7 touchdowns. The Tar Heels behind a starting quarterback lacking arm strength has struggled for offense with 20 points scored or less in 5 games against 7 division 1 opponents this season. Miami Hurricanes are 7-2 this season and 0-2 in ACC play. The team has won two straight games and posted 52 points last week home against Virginia. Sophomore quarterback Jacory Harris is hitting on 61% of his passes with 18 touchdowns and 12 interceptions. The Hurricanes are getting run production from Graig Copper who has carries the ball 84 times for 478 yards and a 5.7 yards a carry average. Miami has the strong arm of Jacory Harris under center and the solid running game that could give North Carolina some problems. The Tar Heels cannot stack the line with Harris’s ability to go downfield with his passes.
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CFB Trend: North Carolina Tar Heels are 4-1 ATS in their past 5 meetings
The Wagerline consensus has 63.0% of the CFB bettors on Miami Florida –3 1/2
The Wagerline consensus has 64.2% of the CFB bettors playing over 42 1/2
