{"id":35392,"date":"2014-09-17T16:30:37","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T21:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=35392"},"modified":"2014-09-17T15:42:37","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T20:42:37","slug":"college-football-week-4-predictions-north-carolina-tar-heels-vs-east-carolina-pirates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-week-4-predictions-north-carolina-tar-heels-vs-east-carolina-pirates-35392\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Week 4 Predictions: North Carolina Tar Heels vs. East Carolina Pirates"},"content":{"rendered":"

North Carolina Tar Heels vs. East Carolina Pirates
\nSaturday, 9\/20\/14, 3:30 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 East Carolina -1
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 East Carolina -2.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 64
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 66
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The East Carolina Pirates are coming off a huge upset victory over the Virginia Tech Hokies<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

North Carolina is set to play its first road game of the season, as it was last seen picking up a 31-27 victory over the San Diego State Aztecs as 14.5-point home favorites on Sept. 6, while going UNDER the betting total of 60.\u00a0 The Tar Heels lead this overall series 12-3-1, which can\u2019t be ignored when making your Week 4 college football predictions, including a 2-1 mark when playing in Greenville.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to point out that the team\u2019s final 10 opponents are a combined 24-5 and five of those squads have an unblemished record.\u00a0 North Carolina is 1-5 SU and 2-4 ATS as underdogs the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Tar Heels are fourth in the country in turnover margin, which is important to consider when looking over the college football lines, especially since they\u2019ve scored on all nine red zone possessions during the 2014 campaign.\u00a0 Over the last 15 games, North Carolina has also managed to score 10 non-offensive touchdowns\u2014five punt returns, three interception returns and two kickoff returns.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to point out that the squad\u2019s most experienced offensive linemen Landon Turner with 19 career starts will miss this affair due to an injury.<\/p>\n

East Carolina is set to close out its non-conference schedule after picking up a 28-21 victory over the Virginia Tech Hokies as 9.5-point road underdogs in Week 4, while it has won the statistical battle in all three games this season.\u00a0 The Pirates have won their last three games versus Atlantic Coast Conference opponents, while they\u2019ve proven victorious in eight of their last nine affairs at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium.\u00a0 East Carolina is 6-4 SU and 7-2 ATS in September the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Pirates are enjoying the benefits of hiring Rick Smith as their defensive coordinator before last season, as they allowed an average of 430.0 yards from 2010-12, but have given up 368.8 and 334.7 respectively in 2013 and this season.\u00a0 Offensively, East Carolina is capable of matching scores with just about anyone, considering senior quarterback Shane Carden and wide receiver Justin Hardy have connected for 20 touchdowns during their careers.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Tar Heels due to their 6-1 ATS mark in the last seven meetings in this series.<\/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 vs. East Carolina Pirates Saturday, 9\/20\/14, 3:30 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 East Carolina -1 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 East Carolina -2.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 64 Current Total:\u00a0 66 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker North Carolina is set to play its first road game of the season, as it was last seen picking up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":29384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[3233,2826,32,7736],"class_list":["post-35392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-atlantic-coast-conference","tag-east-carolina-pirates","tag-north-carolina-tar-heels","tag-shane-carden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35392","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=35392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35393,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35392\/revisions\/35393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}