{"id":24850,"date":"2012-09-08T04:00:07","date_gmt":"2012-09-08T09:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=24850"},"modified":"2012-09-07T18:36:41","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T23:36:41","slug":"north-carolina-tar-heels-vs-wake-forest-demon-deacons-acc-football-rivals-square-off-in-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/north-carolina-tar-heels-vs-wake-forest-demon-deacons-acc-football-rivals-square-off-in-week-2-24850\/","title":{"rendered":"North Carolina Tar Heels vs. Wake Forest Demon Deacons: Week 2 ACC Football Betting Odds and Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

North Carolina Tar Heels at Wake Forest Demon Deacons
\nSaturday, 9\/8\/12, 3:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN3
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 North Carolina -8
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 North Carolina -10.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 54
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 55.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The North Carolina Tar Heels are quickening the pace on offense under their new coaching staff<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

North Carolina is coming off a 62-0 blowout win over Elon as 32.5-point home favorites, as it managed to win the statistical battle by 354 yards.\u00a0 The Tar Heels are looking to pick up the pace under new head coach Larry Fedora and offensive coordinator Blake Anderson, which places a lot of pressure on quarterback Bryn Renner.\u00a0 \u201cAs far as getting that tempo going, it starts with me,\u201d commented Renner this week.\u00a0 The Tar Heels ended a two-year losing streak in this series last year, picking up a 49-24 win as seven-point home favorites, as it gained 562 total yards.\u00a0 North Carolina is 5-3 ATS in September the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Tar heels scored six of their seven touchdowns on drives that took 1:55 or less, with all nine of their scoring drive lasting a total of 11 minutes and 48 seconds.\u00a0 North Carolina has a talented running back at its disposal, with Giovani Bernard matching his career high with three touchdowns, finishing with 203 all-purpose yards.\u00a0 On the other side of the ball, senior linebacker Kevin Reddick demonstrated that he loves the new 4-2-5 defensive scheme, while Sylvester Williams tallied two sacks.<\/p>\n

Wake Forest gutted out a 20-17 victory over Liberty in its season opener, as it prepares for the 105th meeting in this rivalry.\u00a0 The Demon Deacons have won their last six ACC openers, but will be up against it here, especially due their 34-68-2 mark in this series.\u00a0 \u201cComing from last year, they\u2019re big, they\u2019re strong with a great running back,\u201d commented Demon Deacons nose guard Nikita Whitlock about this Saturday\u2019s matchup.\u00a0 Wake Forest is 7-9 ATS versus conference opponents the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Demon Deacons have tallied an impressive 30-8 record against fellow North Carolina schools during his career on campus, which includes winning two of the last three meetings in this series.\u00a0 Quarterback Tanner Price will need to continue to protect the football, as he was one of just two players nationally to throw for more than 3,000 yards and have six or fewer interceptions last year.\u00a0 One of his main targets figures to be Michael Campanero, who is coming off a 96-yard receiving performance.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Demon Deacons due to the home team going 5-1 ATS in this series, while the Tar Heels are 0-5 ATS following a straight-up win.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t miss out on a winning season and let the college football handicappers at Maddux Sports line your pockets with cash.\u00a0 Long term packages are available now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

North Carolina Tar Heels at Wake Forest Demon Deacons Saturday, 9\/8\/12, 3:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN3 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 North Carolina -8 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 North Carolina -10.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 54 Current Total:\u00a0 55.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker North Carolina is coming off a 62-0 blowout win over Elon as 32.5-point home favorites, as it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":23973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[387,5743,6236,4207,32,5617,3028],"class_list":["post-24850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-acc","tag-bryn-renner","tag-giovani-bernard","tag-larry-fedora","tag-north-carolina-tar-heels","tag-tanner-price","tag-wake-forest-demon-deacons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24850"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24852,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24850\/revisions\/24852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}