{"id":35456,"date":"2014-09-22T06:30:26","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T11:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=35456"},"modified":"2014-09-21T14:37:50","modified_gmt":"2014-09-21T19:37:50","slug":"college-football-week-5-predictions-north-carolina-tar-heels-vs-clemson-tigers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/college-football-week-5-predictions-north-carolina-tar-heels-vs-clemson-tigers-35456\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Week 5 Predictions: North Carolina Tar Heels vs. Clemson Tigers"},"content":{"rendered":"

North Carolina Tar Heels vs. Clemson Tigers
\nSaturday, 9\/27\/14, 7:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:
\nCurrent Betting Line:
\nOpening Total:
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\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Clemson Tigers have played a difficult schedule to open up the 2014 campaign<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

North Carolina is 2-1 SU and 0-3 ATS after dropping a 70-41 decision to the East Carolina Pirates as one-point road favorites last Saturday, while it has been outgained by 465 combined yards in its last two contests.\u00a0 \u201cWe were outcoached, outplayed, out-everythinged,\u201d commented head coach Larry Fedora.\u00a0 The Tar Heels will need to sure up their pass defense to be competitive in this affair, which is important to consider when making your Week 5 college football predictions, as they allowed 789 total yards last week.\u00a0 North Carolina has failed to cover the number in its last four September contests.<\/p>\n

Since going 4-1 on the road in 2010, the Tar Heels are 5-11 in that situation over the past three-plus seasons, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the college football lines.\u00a0 North Carolina might not be able to recover from last week\u2019s disappointing loss under Fedora, considering it faces a very challenging schedule the rest of the way.<\/p>\n

Clemson fell to 1-2 with both losses on the road against teams that were ranked in the top 12, as it dropped a 23-17 overtime decision to the Florida State Seminoles as 9.5-point underdogs last Saturday\u2014despite winning the statistical battle by 89 yards.\u00a0 The Tigers finished that affair with a plus-one turnover margin, but saw their record fall to 33-4 when winning that all-important statistical category under head coach Dabo Swinney.\u00a0 Clemson should benefit in returning to Death Valley in this matchup, as the favorite is 4-1 ATS in the last five meetings in this Atlantic Coast Conference rivalry.<\/p>\n

The Tigers should be proud with their defensive effort against the top-ranked team in the country, especially with how the unit was embarrassed in the second half against Georgia a couple weeks prior.\u00a0 Clemson\u2019s stop unit continues to be led by linemen Vic Beasley, who has four sacks on the season and 25 in his career.\u00a0 Quarterback Deshaun Watson is the main player to watch offensively, as his 266 yards passing in Tallahassee was the program\u2019s highest such total from a true freshman since 1992.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Tigers due to their 5-1 ATS mark in their last six games following a SU loss.<\/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. Clemson Tigers Saturday, 9\/27\/14, 7:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread: Current Betting Line: Opening Total: Current Total: Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker North Carolina is 2-1 SU and 0-3 ATS after dropping a 70-41 decision to the East Carolina Pirates as one-point road favorites last Saturday, while it has been outgained […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":34801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[3233,634,3374,8498,4207,32],"class_list":["post-35456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-atlantic-coast-conference","tag-clemson-tigers","tag-dabo-swinney","tag-deshaun-watson","tag-larry-fedora","tag-north-carolina-tar-heels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35456","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=35456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35457,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35456\/revisions\/35457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}